Overview
“A Parents’ Guide To Healthy Children: From Preconception To Early Childhood”
This eBook is in defense of the child, and in defense of parents’ and guardians’ freedom to make health and wellness decisions for their children. Empowered and loving adults provide the foundation for children’s healthy habits. Parents have the innate ability to respond to their children in ways that promote health and vitality.
This time in history is unveiling some of the deepest inconsistencies in conventional Western medicine, both in the United States and around the world. It was only in the 19th and 20th centuries that practitioners of Western medicine began limiting their practice to knowledge of the physical body, gained through observation and experimentation. Before then, healing took into account the spiritual dimensions of health as well. Today, a growing number of people — both parents and professionals — recognize medicine’s narrow focus on the physical as being detrimental to health and healing, and they understand the importance of allowing children to grow up physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually healthy. The time is ripe for shifting the medical paradigm.
Over the last few years, people from all walks of life have experienced governmental and pharmaceutical overreach, negatively affecting their ability to make informed decisions regarding medical treatments, their right to bodily autonomy, and their right to full transparency. This has given rise to a powerful new movement of parents and caregivers committed to making health decisions and choices for themselves and their children without interference. Many parents also want to guide children so that young people:
- Trust their own ability to maintain and restore balance and health
- Understand simple steps they can take to maintain health and prevent and treat illness
- Grow up taking charge of their health and health care
Parents are their children’s best advocates, and they must be able to make health decisions with confidence. No parent should ever feel vulnerable or victimized when they seek medical assistance for their child. This eBook provides readers with resources they can use to support their children’s health and the sometimes complex medical decisions that are unique to each child and family. Though shaped by medical, psychological, social, and cultural forces, parental decision-making should not be subject to pressure from outside influences. Instead, parents should be able to obtain support from trusted medical professionals who emphasize informed consent and risk-based analysis. There is no need for parents to fear speaking up or to feel alone. All parents share a purpose: to protect the most precious generation and raise vibrant, healthy, and happy children.