He's 7 and we are booked in for chickenpox jabs.
I'm having it too since I'm not immune. It's doing the rounds at school and I don't want ds to catch it or to bring it home to prem dd. I know it's usually mild but not always.
However he is absolutely resisting. He's become very difficult over anything medical over the last couple of years. I can't even take his temperature. He wouldn't have the flu vaccine spray. They had to give up because he became hysterical. We've talked about why vaccines are necessary and how having the illness is worse than having the vaccine, we've tried bribes and rewards. Some of it is for effect. Apparently the chickenpox vaccine will kill him and make him cry for ten years and his arm will fall off etc etc.
I know I should be sympathetic but it's starting to get on my nerves. At some point he is going to have to have some sort of medical thing and if we keep backing down now how will we manage it? I think my view is slightly coloured as I was diagnosed diabetic at 8 and was doing all my own injections and blood tests more or less straight away. I know that doesn't change how he feels about medical type things though. I have to say he generally is a drama queen. I know that sounds horrible but he is! Everything is reacted to in an over the top way - for example something he doesn't like coming on the TV is 'an absolute disaster,' losing at football makes him 'want to never play again and throw all his footballs away,' a food he isn't keen on on his plate is 'total poison and will make him sick' so he does have a tendency to be a little over the top.
Would you back down on this or not?