When you have deep roots, you don’t move.
I recently brought our kids for their dental check-up. Every time they ask me if I have changed my position on allowing them to use fluoride. Every time I say no. This time there was a new hygienist who asked me why, then proceeded to list the most common answers to her question, one of which was “Is it bad for them?”
I could tell this was an invitation to a debate, not a harmless inquiry.
“Yes,” I said, “bad, very bad.” And I walked out.
As parents, we don’t need reasons, only decisions. We teach our kids to respect each other, even if we don’t agree. We don’t have to agree for me to respect your point of view. All I ask is the same in return, without question…
When the visit was over, the dentist came out and he kept repeating “tooth decay.” It was about the beginnings of “tooth decay” and you don’t want your daughter to experience “tooth decay”, do you?
The whole experience, from start to finish was all very fear based, condescending, and judgmental.
I do not live in a world of fear, health professionals are not going to scare me into a decision. I live in a world of possibility. Not some flighty “it won’t happen to me” bliss, but the reality that what you say can be true, but doesn’t have to be… because you don’t have a “crystal ball” to see the future any more than I do.
On the way home, I reminded my kids that when you have God in your life, your mind is stronger than their mouth. In other words, what you know and believe is far more powerful than what anyone else says. We get to choose what we accept into our lives. I choose possibility, then give it up to God. I’ve seen too many things go right in my life and in others lives when we do.
I remember when I broke my ankle and was told I needed to wear a boot and wouldn’t be able to walk for 8-12 weeks. I walked with a cane from day one, walked without it from day 7 and was back in the dojo in about 5 weeks. Don’t tell me what can’t be done, I’m not buying… I know we are all better than that… you included.
This is all why I don’t talk much about spinal decay, degeneration, arthritis, etc in the office, it’s all fear based. In our office, we choose to talk about health, healing, acceptance, moving on and the potential your life possesses. We are frank about what you can do, rather than what you can’t. We focus on truth.
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