Re: vaccinations, etc.
At first just tell them as politely as you can that you've decided to wait until the child is 5 years old to vaccinate him/her. Or you could go all natural child birth and bypass the medics alltogether.
If they get pushy don't be afraid to get pushy right back at them. Don't be afraid to be as rude to them as they are to you. They're bullies and will back down almost immediately.
When it comes time for school they can get pretty nasty. It's called "gun-point medicine". The best thing to do would be home-school the kids. Public schools pretty much ruin the kids anyway. Literally addicting them to distraction. Which is an amazing thing to see.
Of course you could always forge the vacination certificates and outright lie to them. After all they ARE lying to you.
But if you keep your kids vaccination free and drug free they won't get along with their mates very well. I'm seeing that right now with my wifes 13 year old daughter. Her friends are taking otc drugs for all kinds of things, every little thing that comes up and the parents are pill poppers. She doesn't understand why her friends and her friends parents can't think right. Why they're all so screwed up. Pretty good observation for a 13 year old. She has had NO vaccinations or drugs of any kind for the past 8 years since I met her mother.
I've had several run-ins with the school. With the Flouride rinse I took about a six inch stack of research about it to the school and demanded Erica stop participating in the Flouride rinse. Did the same thing with her dentist.
So do the same with vaccinations. Take a whole stack of research with you and lay it on their desk. Slam it on their desk, see what they say.
It's called "informed consent". There's a doctor out in Iowa that has a great web site about it. I'll find his name and post it here. Also
http://www.thedoctorwithin.com
has some excellent research on vacinations.
Don't let them push you around.
As an aside here. Poltically I wouldn't be having any kids until I see how next years election is going to turn out. The showdown is upon us and it might not be wise to be raising a family after next year. It may not even be possible
Doc Sutter