I am currently working as the administrative manger in a private child care facility and I am in charge of keeping the records for each child. I handle their paperwork for enrollment, developmental history and most importantly their medicals. Our child care facility is inspected by the city and state departments every year to determine if we are update with each child's immunizations records. Immunization is important to me because, I can see how important it is to helping a child live a healthy life. I believe, if you can prevent a child from contracting any disease why wouldn't you. I am a mother and I believe in vaccination even more now because I do not want my little guy contracting anything.
During my day to day interactions with parents, I come into contact with many different religious, philosophical and political views concerning the well-being for children. We as a school have to respect the choices of parents and they need to provide us with documentation that states why they do not want to immunize their child. We are not allowed to discrimination or deny entry to children due to that fact, but it does come in to play when we have sickness going around because those children miss out on many school days. The parents of children that are not immunize get really frightened when our school has a virus or any bacterial conditions going around.
UNICEF has created facilities in different countries to carry out their programs. For example:
Child Health Days (Prevent Childhood Diseases in Somalia)
GAVI Alliance (United Republic of Tanzania)
These programs help to reach the children that may not have had a chance for survival. UNICEF should be supported as much as possible because their are helping children to see a healthy future and and show them that they are important. My future is set because I am a strong believer in all children being vaccinated. I respect everyone beliefs, but when it comes to children unless you can place them in a disease free bubble, I will always choose vaccinate.
Natasha
ReplyDeleteImmunizations are important and we begin that process with our own babies, making sure they are getting the shots they need to stay healthy. In the child care field we also have to make sure each child have their immunizations before they start school. You have a very important job to do and Im sure they are blessed to have you there at the school. Im glad to hear that the other countries are recieving immunizations for their children so they can live healthy lives to.
Rolanda
Hi Natasha,
ReplyDeleteImmunizations are critical at the beginning of life. It is great to keep a record of the immunizations needed. Thanks for sharing.
Natasha,
ReplyDeleteYour blog post was very interesting. I can clearly see the importance in immunizations. I live in the state of Mississippi and it is a requirement for children to have certain immunizations before entering school. If I'm not mistaken it is the law. I see that you stated that you all can't deny a child entry into school because their parents do not believe in immunizations. I think this is dangerous simply because the other children are not protected. Any type of outbreak can occur and cause sickness and illnesses. I think all children should be immunized. I like how you pointed out UNICEF and their efforts at immunizing children. This clearly shows the importance of immunizations.
Immunizations are important for children's well being. I can't see how a parent would not want their child to be immunized. I'm glad to hear something is beirn done to prevent so many deaths from not being immunized. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteBrenda