parents of older unvaccinated children

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How have others dealt with approaching their kids about the vaccine

issue. My 9 year old son mentioned something about his peers talking

about shots. He started teeling me about how his shot didn't hurt,

etc. etc. but his friends got different shots.(thinks the time he got

a little blood drawn for a calcium and iron test, was

an " immunisation shot. " ) This led me to hint that i needed to talk

to him about the shots. But i dropped him off to school, and we never

went into it yet.

Anyway, i always felt that i would tell my son that he is immunised.

( Immunised by being breastfed for 4 1/2 years that is. I could tell

him that we immunise differently by using healthy food to get the

same effect, and the prevent these deseases one has to eat really

healthy.

Is this an obvious approach? Or too worrying for a 9 year old.

But now that he is 15 - 20lbs. overweigt, and fighting me about

fruits and veggies and everything i make, says he isn't hungry in the

hopes that i will forget, and eventually he goes next door to his

grandma's house to chow down. WHite rice and meat, pasta and chiken,

rice and beans with portugese nitrite sausage!!! Soda, ice cream,

sugary yogurt, all kinds of exciting grandma goodis. It hurts me so

that i can not regulate it like before.

My motive to tell him he is not vaccinated is so he starts to take

responsibility for what he eats.

But i feel i feel wrong with this reasoning.It is like a scare tactic

if i am not careful how i word it.

I don't want to make him feel like this is some large secret

responsibility he has to carry. I don't want him to tell his friends

in school that he is unvaccinated. He is allready very conscious of

the fact that all the other kids have 3 slices of pizza and 2

icecreams for lunch, a pack of oreos, and why can they, and not he?

" Why can't i make food like everyone else!! Or let him eat

lunchables!!! " he yells. I will be buying lunchables soon just to

demistify it.

He will be spending a few weeks away from me for the first time this

summer. He will be in good hands, but i won't be there to make sure

he goes for healthier choices. My relatives know my food preferences,

and i am sure they will oversea that he gets a variety. Unless he

takes advantage of this freedom away from me.

But what about his wound care, and what cuts and scrapes he may

ignore. I have always used peroxide diluted if i see dirty deep cuts

and scrapes.Is this correct?

He does the same. Should full stregnth always be used? Is peroxide

even necessary? Is it a good precaution anyway? And most every

household has it.

How have others dealt with approaching their kids about the vaccine

issue.