I’m hoping to wait until 18 before I feel the need to vaccinate my daughters. At 18, they can make informed decisions about their body on their own.
I will say that my 14 year old son was up for a lot of vaccines. There were some that I wanted him to have because of risk factors in our family (flu), but there were several that I wasn’t sure about (meningitis). My son is very smart, so I let the doctor explain the benefits versus the risk to my son. My son said he thought he should have them. We went ahead with them.
Exactly. To be honest, I figured I would give her the decision making on it at 16. But considering your comments about your son, who knows, I may let her make the decision herself at 14 as well. At least when she is 16, or maybe even 14, she will have a better grasp on what this particular vaccine is about, than she does now at the age of 10, or will in the summer at 11.
She knows how kittens and puppies and calves and lambs come about, but she is still of an age where she only has a peripheral understanding about "mating" and babies.......if that makes any sense to you.