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Dawne is sponsoring this week’s giveaway for a weighted blanket!

The best way to tone it all down is to acknowledge the wisdom, even if it’s only the most microscopic shred of wisdom, of the people who disagree with you.

“I sleep better at night knowing that kids all over the world, and grownups too, are doing okay or just doing better because I helped them. I know what it’s like to be scared and need help, to need information, and when you have what you need, it is a gift.”

We’re desperate. We’re desperate to find something somewhere that will help our children. The desperation comes from fear. Fear that our children won’t have a future worth looking forward to. Fear that, despite never giving up, it will never be enough. And so they prey on us, and worse, our children. They use the fear and desperation to convince us try literally anything.

Although the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends using pain control “whenever possible,” only 2.1 million of an estimated 18 million IV sticks each year are done with any sort of pain management. What can you do to change that for YOUR child?