California patriot here with a pregnant wife. I’m a little nervous about the vaccination situation. I’m not a complete anti-vax advocate but I do think there are too many usually given too soon.

Can anyone show me relevant links of what I can do to minimize risk? What’s mandatory? What vaccines have been proving the most problematic?

Interested in personal experiences/decisions from other parents here.

Other general tips/advice/anecdotes/warnings about effective parenting in the midst of this upside down system would be great as well. I want to do everything I can to keep my child’s health and mind safeguarded against the efforts of the cabal.

Has anyone seen Mary Poppins? There’s some heavy themes in there. Anti-banker, warnings that those in authority can be wolves intending to exploit/harm you while presenting themselves to you as help. Suggestions that reality is stranger than it seems, and pure rational thinking can often lead to cynicism, dead ends, incomplete understanding, or denial instead of truth. It seemed vaguely pro-faith and anti-victimhood defeatist mentalities.

It used some interesting phrasing such as “darkest before the dawn” and “follow the light” and even seemed to imply there is some evil that is not redeemable.

It’s Disney, so I went in expecting propaganda. But it all struck me as relatively solid “expand your thinking, believe in something, evil is often dressed up real pretty, have faith,” etc.

>>4457852

Is that legally permitted?

>>4457855

I do want it. We are being incredibly selective with our medical care. My wife is even skeptical of hospitals, induction, cecesarians, and epidurals. I want to research what I can legally and safely do in terms of vaccinations. The minimum that will keep CPS away and any that are genuinely helpful? If there are?

>>4457938

Does this require anything documented? We are a part of a reformed church but they don’t have an official stance about vaccines. I’m not sure if my pastor would be willing to write a letter supporting an exemption, but perhaps he would. What was required for you to invoke religious exemption?

>>4457956

Kind of, I live in California. I’ve seen the government get involved in families for things less heated than vaccinations.

>>4457950

This is very helpful, thank you. Are there other particularly troubling substances to be wary of in addition to the one you mentioned?

>>4458014

We are prepared to home school as well, but are going to look at some private schools when the time comes. There’s one where many members of our church are teachers/administrators. I put my foot down about public schooling.

>>4458055

Even private schools? I would sooner home school than poison my own child.

>>4458103

She wants to do everything through a birthing center/water birth. She believes the process should be as natural as possible, and that induction and cesareans are encouraged way too often and unnecessarily.

She even thinks the pain is important, since she is Christian and the Bible describes the pain as specifically appointed by God. She wants the natural phenomen to happen as naturally as possible. As you said, it’s how we all got here. It can’t be that risky.

She’s also mentioned that since in the Old Testament, something spiritual was passed to the child through the birth canal, that she thinks something important occurs during a natural birth that cesareans are being used to take from us and epidurals are possibly used to remove the mother’s intimacy of the vital moment.

>>4458127

That’s my major issue. I don’t want to give the state authority over my child’s mind and worldview. I have a young nephew in public school and have seen enough propaganda about history, religion, gender, and race to know it would be voluntary indoctrination.

>>4458169

I saw CPS get involved after the child did something to make the school think he needed gender identity counseling. In elementary school. The child was not calling himself a girl or expressing disgust with being a boy.

They had a year long headache for maintaining they would not consider such a thing until after puberty. They didn’t lose their son, but the involvement from CPS and the school was taxing and Orwellian.

I want to figure out how to minimize the risk of attracting their attention while living a counter-cultural, more traditional and Biblical lifestyle