veganism at age 7 seems like unjust punishment if you ask me. virtually anything a 7 year old would like (and need, in my opinion) will wind up containing something with an animal based product in it.
poor guy.
my son decided to be vegetarian on his own recently, and he's six. he's stuck to his guns steadfastly, but i am requiring him to eat fish a few times a week because of protein etc. plus i dont fancy eating tofu, etc. on a nightly basis.
i can't imagine trying to arrange vegan meals with variety and enough of the essential nutrients for a growing kid. that would take alot of planning and research. and the kid would invariably wind up hating it.
so i hope little cousin winds up getting the proper nutrition. can you take him healthy little protein rich treats from time to time? or maybe talk mom into lightening up the restrictions? maybe just going vegetarian or something?
there are tons of great art schools that DONT use grades as a criteria for admission. which is nice for situations like yours. i would just do some major web searching and checking admissions requirements for anywhere that sounds interesting. also try emailing (or phoning) admissions advisers to find out how much they focus on GRADES... conversely, if you have your heart set on MFA, try to go to school for a couple terms and get your grades turned around, i'm talking notable improvement, lots of schools will be sympathetic. and take all your pre-req classes that you can ahead of time...i went to an intellectually snobby little tiny school for a time and enjoyed alot of things about it. now i go to a medium sized state school with all sorts of different types of people and study something entirely different. i thought i would hate the school full of "average" people, but i really don't. surprisingly, i like it. AND tuition is about a third of what i paid at the tiny school of my dreams. i like that aspect of it alot. and its much more relaxed academically. i can breathe and eat and do stuff which is really essential to daily life.
incidently, that private school didn't consider grades for admission purposes, and didn't give grades. interesting place.
so... good luck to you. post updates on the college thing, i like to know about schools and who goes where.
uh, yikes.
poor guy.
my son decided to be vegetarian on his own recently, and he's six. he's stuck to his guns steadfastly, but i am requiring him to eat fish a few times a week because of protein etc. plus i dont fancy eating tofu, etc. on a nightly basis.
i can't imagine trying to arrange vegan meals with variety and enough of the essential nutrients for a growing kid. that would take alot of planning and research. and the kid would invariably wind up hating it.
so i hope little cousin winds up getting the proper nutrition. can you take him healthy little protein rich treats from time to time? or maybe talk mom into lightening up the restrictions? maybe just going vegetarian or something?
there are tons of great art schools that DONT use grades as a criteria for admission. which is nice for situations like yours. i would just do some major web searching and checking admissions requirements for anywhere that sounds interesting. also try emailing (or phoning) admissions advisers to find out how much they focus on GRADES... conversely, if you have your heart set on MFA, try to go to school for a couple terms and get your grades turned around, i'm talking notable improvement, lots of schools will be sympathetic. and take all your pre-req classes that you can ahead of time...i went to an intellectually snobby little tiny school for a time and enjoyed alot of things about it. now i go to a medium sized state school with all sorts of different types of people and study something entirely different. i thought i would hate the school full of "average" people, but i really don't. surprisingly, i like it. AND tuition is about a third of what i paid at the tiny school of my dreams. i like that aspect of it alot. and its much more relaxed academically. i can breathe and eat and do stuff which is really essential to daily life.
incidently, that private school didn't consider grades for admission purposes, and didn't give grades. interesting place.
so... good luck to you. post updates on the college thing, i like to know about schools and who goes where.