I draw the line at “disease parties.” Something is diseased with that.
Our cigarette smoking mothers of many did it as a routine. It is 1960s home remedy, wise vaccination. A pharmaceutical vaccination does the same thing, with risks and no guarantee of lifelong immunity, which is what you want.
I managed an outbreak of chicken pox in an adult population in my work. Lifelong guaranteed immunity for you r own kids is key, after seeing such a sight.
It is horrible. In all my years of nursing, combat nursing, I cried over my patients once.
It was then.
You would do anything to avoid that for your kid. Any adult who doesn’t know if they had chicken pox is a mystery to me.