I would definitely go with the "we're delaying vaccines" tactic. That way you can feel the waters for how they feel about it. If you know of any specific cases that you could share to get your point across, such as someone you know of that had a bad vaccine reaction, I would have that ready too.
We did a delayed/alternate vaccine schedule with our doctors input for my kids so that is a real thing that can be done.
That was years ago and not sure if I’d even do that if it came up again today as more is known about vaccines now.
We also chose to home school which meant my wife giving up her job. Day care seemed ridiculously expensive even with my wife’s job at 50k per year and it meant we would paying money to have less time with our kids.
The time with your kids is quite literally priceless, so choosing a change in your lifestyle to make that happen is going to be far more valuable in non-dollar ways than even a job that could pay you a million dollars per year. That was how we reframed our thinking when we made our choice.
Then we went into lots of debt for a while because we didn’t quite understand how to budget on half of what we had been making. :). It’s been 14 years so far and it’s still been worth it.
I would definitely go with the "we're delaying vaccines" tactic. That way you can feel the waters for how they feel about it. If you know of any specific cases that you could share to get your point across, such as someone you know of that had a bad vaccine reaction, I would have that ready too.
We did a delayed/alternate vaccine schedule with our doctors input for my kids so that is a real thing that can be done.
That was years ago and not sure if I’d even do that if it came up again today as more is known about vaccines now.
We also chose to home school which meant my wife giving up her job. Day care seemed ridiculously expensive even with my wife’s job at 50k per year and it meant we would paying money to have less time with our kids.
The time with your kids is quite literally priceless, so choosing a change in your lifestyle to make that happen is going to be far more valuable in non-dollar ways than even a job that could pay you a million dollars per year. That was how we reframed our thinking when we made our choice.
Then we went into lots of debt for a while because we didn’t quite understand how to budget on half of what we had been making. :). It’s been 14 years so far and it’s still been worth it.