Leading A Horse To Water

This is a common question: "How can I convince ______ to not vaccinate?"
Fill in the blank with "my mom," "my sister," "my friend," you name it. There are so many to educate!

The question isn't silly...but it does have rather a "silly" answer: It's that ol' expression about leading a horse to water.....Another answer is "When the student is ready, the teacher appears." If the person you are trying to "convince" isn't ready to hear your information, there isn't much you can do to change their mind.

But here are some things you *can* do:
1. Be "Joanna Appleseed"...keep spreading the seeds but take no responsibility about making them sprout. Remember the Parable of the Sower?

"A sower went out to sow his seed: Some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it. And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture. And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it. And others fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold." Luke 8:4-8.

By my calculations, that's at best a 25 percent success rate (and could actually be less). You can't convince those who do not want to hear, and you can't convince all of them....yet. But you can stay strong in your personal convictions...and keep sowin' them seeds!

2. You can show them my DVDs and books: http://www.nmaseminars.com/VaccineInfoHome.html

3. You can print out my articles from www.ezineArticles.com Put "Tenpenny, vaccines" in the site search. If you like an article, please pass on through the "email" on ezineArticles.com or paste the article on your website through the ezine "publisher." Or print and pass out all over town!

4. Join a Holistic Moms Group to find like-minded people who are on your "same page" http://www.holisticmoms.org/

5. Add non-vaccinating moms and dads to your site on MySpace!! What a wonderful group of people!

Remember that wonderful quote by Margaret Mead: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."