There is a certain strength of conviction in many 10-year-old boys, a faith in their own indisputable expertise on, well, just about anything, really. It’s the same implacable self-belief that fuels those brag-fests that pass for conversation among them.Now that children can get vaccinated, we came across an unexpected hurdle.“Oh no you’re not,” I rebutted, deftly, from the dishwasher. That ought to settle it.This had been coming for a while now.
Now that the five to 11-year-old rollout is on us, though, and we have a pre-adolescent refusenik in the house, it seems we’re going to have to work out where to draw some lines. Between persuasion and coercion. Between steering him towards what we might see as the best course, and his right, albeit as a bloody-minded 10-year-old, to choose.Not that I’m immune to the mood that’s building in every schoolchild-containing household across the land. The tension. The creeping unease.
And telling him what to do, old-school parent-style, has never been my thing. Which is not just because of his autism , but partly is.
I take things kids didn’t say for 500
We gotta stop coining the phrase 'anti-vaxer' and refer to it as anti-conforming. People aren't against the vaccine because they are anti-vaxers, it's because they refuse to listen to the overwhelming BS that the media and government sells them on covid. They are enlightened.
That's PaleoAF
Old school parenting needed there. Growing up if my parents decided i needed a jab for something it was that, or a well....u get the picture 😂😂
Child abusers..
Ask him what music he wants played at his funeral
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