Do you make your teen get booster or let them decide

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. Not negotiable.

+1. He was fine with it.

+1. Do your job as parent. You need to more than having sex and make a baby.

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Anonymous wrote:Not the hill I would choose to die on. Frankly, I agree with your son. The risk of getting covid which is beyond trivial at his age and after two shots, doesn't pencil out to me with the myocarditis data as well as the poor performance of this vaccine anyway.

My 14 yo wanted to get the booster and I told her no. There's something not right about the current situation and I think its time for a pause while we wait for things to shake out.

Wait, the OP should respect her son’s medical preference, but you don’t respect your daughter’s? That’s weird.

I said it wasn’t the hill I would choose to die on.

In my state the age of consent for vaccinations is 15 so she can get it then if she still wants it.

I gave her my reasons and asked her to give me hers. Her only reason was “all my friends are getting them, and kids are getting bullied for not getting it” and I told her that didn’t seem compelling. If she researched it and put some effort in, I’d probably cave, but her reason was ridiculous.

It’s been 2 or 3 weeks since all these kids from school got them and she seems to have forgotten about it. I’m actually a really relaxed parent, I let my kids wear whatever they want, I’d allow piercings, etc. however I need more than this from her to do it.

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Mine is 15 and I don’t plan to booster them yet. If they ask we can discuss. I don’t yet see the benefit for a new 15 yo. Read more over in the health Forumn.

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I'd be disappointed if my kid didn't think a booster was a good thing, after the two years we've been through. Thankfully, both of my teens wanted the vaccine and booster.

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Anonymous wrote:His body, his choice. It's a medical decision. We can't pick and choose which medical decisions we leave up to our kids.

This one may/may not have life long consequences. It's good to set the tone for discussion instead of a authoritarian stance.

While it's uncommon to have the extreme side effects, it's not uncommon to feel crappy after getting a booster. Have the chat with your son as to why he doesn't want a booster.

Many, many countries are not requiring teens/children to get boosted. It's not the end of the world. It's a great time to set the stage for much more difficult discussions that may happen in the future.

My children had lots of questions, including my 17 year old. There are grown adults who aren't getting the booster out of vaccine fatigue and a growing feeling like this will be an endless amount of shots. Why not open the discussion with him?

To those who are not giving their teens a choice, good grief. It's something they are putting in their bodies. It's not your body. Do you hold your teenage girls down to give them DepoProvera?

What abject nonsense.

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Anonymous wrote:Mine is 15 and I don’t plan to booster them yet. If they ask we can discuss. I don’t yet see the benefit for a new 15 yo. Read more over in the health Forumn.

No thanks. We'll take our vaccine information from the actual experts, not nonsense posted by mommies on a message board.

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My children had lots of questions, including my 17 year old. There are grown adults who aren't getting the booster out of vaccine fatigue and a growing feeling like this will be an endless amount of shots. Why not open the discussion with him?

What abject nonsense.

Yeah, totally don’t get the “vaccine fatigue” and “endless shots” thoughts. This fall I got my who-knows-how-manyeth TDAP booster, which is due every 7 years to prevent against tetanus. Should I be worried that I will continue to have to get tetanus shots “for the rest of my life” endlessly?

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I would let kids choose but I’m also not vaccinating my kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:His body, his choice. It's a medical decision. We can't pick and choose which medical decisions we leave up to our kids.

This one may/may not have life long consequences. It's good to set the tone for discussion instead of a authoritarian stance.

While it's uncommon to have the extreme side effects, it's not uncommon to feel crappy after getting a booster. Have the chat with your son as to why he doesn't want a booster.

Many, many countries are not requiring teens/children to get boosted. It's not the end of the world. It's a great time to set the stage for much more difficult discussions that may happen in the future.

My children had lots of questions, including my 17 year old. There are grown adults who aren't getting the booster out of vaccine fatigue and a growing feeling like this will be an endless amount of shots. Why not open the discussion with him?

To those who are not giving their teens a choice, good grief. It's something they are putting in their bodies. It's not your body. Do you hold your teenage girls down to give them DepoProvera?

What abject nonsense.

+1. f'king idiots who should never had kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is he planning to go to college? Many colleges are requiring boosters.

+1. My kid’s private boarding school (6-9) requires boosters. Boosters aren’t a choice.

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Anonymous wrote:I’d be asking what conspiracy theory he’s hearing and try to get him out of that algorithm. It’s scary out there for boys. YouTube takes them from video game related content to conspiracies super fast.

This exactly. I would be VERY worried about where he was getting his content.

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Anonymous wrote:his body, his choice.

Because, “You have to get boosted,” is comparable to, “You have to take this brick and crush your skull with it.” Yes, because it’s either a winning or losing game if he gets this tiny little booster. You’re depriving him of his will and you as his legal guardian have no say in whether he takes a shot which makes his body more durable against a lethal virus…

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I will not take it, and I will not allow my son to take it. On his 18th birthday, he is free to do whatever he wants to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will not take it, and I will not allow my son to take it. On his 18th birthday, he is free to do whatever he wants to do.

Based on…?

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Anonymous wrote:I will not take it, and I will not allow my son to take it. On his 18th birthday, he is free to do whatever he wants to do.

Based on…?

DP. My 21yo son could get boosted if he chose, but I recommended to him not to based on studies in multiple other countries showing young men should not be getting it and recommending they don't. Still, it is up to him. Other countries are so much more on top of the statistical data and publish it sooner than the U.S. agencies, which almost always eventually end up following suit but are bringing up the rear on just about all things virus related. There are multiple sources for this info, but this WSJ opinion piece sums it up pretty succinctly:

"The U.S. government is pushing Covid-19 vaccine boosters for 16- and 17-year-olds without supporting clinical data. A large Israeli population study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine earlier this month, found that the risk of Covid death in people under 30 with two vaccine shots was zero.

Booster mandates for healthy young people, which some colleges are imposing, will cause medical harm for the sake of transient reductions in mild and asymptomatic infections. In a study of 438,511 males 16 to 24, 56 developed myocarditis after their second Pfizer dose (or 1 in 7,830, at least seven times the usual rate). True, most cases were mild, but in the broader group of 136 people (including older and female patients) who developed myocarditis after the vaccine, seven had a “complicated course,” and one 22-year-old died. Moderna’s vaccine carries an even higher rate of heart complications, which is why some European countries have restricted it for people under 30. But in the U.S., the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indiscriminately push for boosters for all young people."

There are multiple studies available on searching stating that healthy, vaxed children and young adults are at greater risk from getting the booster than getting any complications from COVID.