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The Vaccine Vortex: What's a Parent to Do?

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Making decisions as a parent is often very challenging. As parents, we stress and worry about how this will affect our children, our relationships with them, their future, their wellbeing, and so many other issues in life.

While we sometimes might not have all the facts, we still strive to make the best decision possible. So, what does a parent do when there are so many competing “news facts” and “opinions” about a specific issue, like, let’s just say, COVID-19 vaccines? (I know, I know, this is such a calm, undebated, non-issue.) How in the world can parents navigate the “mess” that is this issue, to make the best decision for their child?

Information, misinformation, facts, and opinions flood the media, social media, and daily conversations for just about everything in our world, but nothing has shown this more clearly than the current pandemic.

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