What Your Doctor May Not Tell You about Childrens Vaccinations or Protecting the Gift

What Your Doctor May Not Tell You about Children's Vaccinations

Author: Stephanie Cav

We may be overvaccinating our children today. Once considered a godsend, vaccines are now felt by some to be associated with dramatic increases in brain and autoimmune diseases such as autism, asthma, diabetes, learning disabilities, and ADHD. Here is a vital, down-to-earth guide that will tell you which vaccines may be risky and what to consider to help safely vaccinate your children.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	xiii
Part I	Introducing Vaccines
Chapter 1	The Story of Vaccines	3
Chapter 2	How Safe Are Vaccines?	19
Chapter 3	Mercury in Vaccines: Shots of Danger?	39
Chapter 4	The Autism Debate	57
Chapter 5	When the Body Attacks Itself: Autoimmune Disorders	79
Part II	The Vaccines
Chapter 6	Hepatitis B Vaccine	107
Chapter 7	DTP/DTaP: Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis	131
Chapter 8	Hib: Haemophilus Influenzae Type B Vaccine	150
Chapter 9	Polio	160
Chapter 10	MMR: Measles, Mumps, Rubella	178
Chapter 11	Varicella (Chicken Pox)	198
Chapter 12	Other Vaccines	212
Chapter 13	Vaccines of the Future: Sooner Than You Think?	237
Chapter 14	Parents, the Law, and Insurance Companies	248
Chapter 15	What You Can Do to Ensure Your Child's Safety	267
Chapter 16	The Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System	280
	Appendix
	Medical Associations and Related Organizations	290
	Organizations and Web Sites Specifically Related to Vaccines	294
	Glossary	299
	Suggested Reading List	304
	Index	308

Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane)

Author: Gavin De Becker

Safety skills for children outside the home
Warning signs of sexual abuse
How to screen baby-sitters and choose schools
Strategies for keeping teenagers safe from violence

All parents face the same challenges when it comes to their children's safety: whom to trust, whom to distrust, what to believe, what to doubt, what to fear, and what not to fear. In this empowering book, Gavin de Becker, the nation's leading expert on predicting violent behavior and author of the monumental bestseller The Gift of Fear, offers practical new steps to enhance children's safety at every age level, giving you the tools you need to allow your kids freedom without losing sleep yourself. With daring and compassion, he shatters the widely held myths about danger and safety and helps parents find some certainty about life's highest-stakes questions:

How can I know a baby-sitter won't turn out to be someone who harms my child? (see page 103)
What should I ask child-care professionals when I interview them? (see page 137)
What's the best way to prepare my child for walking to school alone? (see page 91)
How can my child be safer at school? (see page 175)
How can I spot sexual predators? (see page 148)
What should I do if my child is lost in public? (see page 86)
How can I teach my child about risk without causing too much fear? (see page 98)
What must my teenage daughter know in order to be safe? (see page 191)
What must my teenage son know in order to be safe? (see page 218)
And finally, in the face of all these questions, how can I reduce the worrying? (see page 56)

Publishers Weekly

Dostoyevski said that child abuse is evil because it destroys a childs faith in the goodness of God. In this painstakingly practical yet impassioned guide, de Becker, author of last years bestselling The Gift of Fear, demonstrates that a child who was himself abused can grow up to be a vigilant protector of the gift of childrens innate faith in the goodness of life. Writing with a precision honed from his long experience as a security expert predicting violence in order to protect high-profile clients, and with a depth born of his own childhood understanding of how it feels to be hurt by the adult you love, de Becker describes how we can keep our children safe. Although he devotes separate chapters to the special threats facing children and teens, females and males (the murderous romance of boys and guns is covered), his basic message is encapsulated in 12 steps. Echoing his previous book, the first step involves teaching children to honor their feelingsspecifically, the intuition that makes them fear certain people. Children also need a parents permission to be assertive, to defy adults, to yell and fully resist. Throughout, de Becker stresses a childs need to trust that a parent will be open to listen about any experience, no matter how unpleasant. He opens and concludes with tales of ordinary mothers who overcame their doubts and inhibitions to experience a brilliantly intuitive wild brain as they fought off attackers to protect their children. De Becker offers a guide to fostering this fierce intelligence in our kids, ourselves and our society. Everyone in contact with children should read this important book. It can help save lives. BOMC, QPB and Childrens BOMC featured alternates; first serial to USA Weekend; second serial to Good Housekeeping; author tour. (May)

Library Journal

From the man who gave us The Gift of Fear: protecting your children.