On that hamburger note...

We went to Red Lobster a few months ago and the kids went ooohing and aahhhing over the lobster tank. Then, of course, my husband orders a lobster and he went and picked one up from the tank. My 7-year-old filed a massive protest about how his dad is cruel to lobsters. So, we explained to him that the hamburger he ordered came from a cow and his brother's chicken fingers came from a real chicken. He then professed he will be a vegetarian because he can't be cruel to cows. The waiter arrives with his burger and my son said he'll just eat the fries. His brother is happily munching on his chicken. So then my son took a bite of his burger. And so, I asked him, what made you change your mind? And he said as long as he doesn't have to see the cow get killed, it's okay. So then, we got the snakes and he fed it a live rat and he said, it's okay because it doesn't look like the rat was hurt too much and there's no blood. Ahh, kids. If you expose them to all kinds of stuff and let them form their own principles, they are quite capable of educating themselves.