Coaching practices for Convince My Wife That the Flu Vaccine is Good for Our Child

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• I get someone on board, and then they go talk to someone who pushes back, and by the time I see them again they’ve quietly drifted right back to where they started
• My feed is full of people swearing this fixed everything that was wrong with them and made them practically invincible, and I honestly can’t tell what’s real and what’s wishful
• I’m frozen on a health call because the rare bad thing that could come from acting terrifies me, even though the slow harm of doing nothing is probably far bigger
• I’m trying to get people to actually go check on something
• My kid and I agree on a fix and it sounds great in the moment, but a few days later it’s fallen apart again

Practices that may help

1. Inoculate against counter-persuasion
   Expose people to weakened counter-arguments so they build resistance before a real attack arrives.
   Elaboration Likelihood Model, Made Practical
2. Separating the hype from the evidence
   Calibrate expectations: real, narrow effects exist; sweeping cure claims do not.
   The Wim Hof Method, Honestly Assessed
3. Apply the vaccination model: compare population outcomes, not individual paths
   Ask: if 1,000 people faced this choice, what’s the total harm from universal inaction vs. universal action?
   Omission Bias — Why Doing Nothing Feels Safer Than Acting
4. Apply loss frames to detection and risk-awareness messages
   Screening and early-warning messages consistently perform better when framed as losses rather than gains.
   The Loss Frame: How Framing Shapes Decisions
5. Evaluate solutions for durability: realistic, mutually satisfying, safe
   A collaborative solution that fails one of three tests — realistic, mutually satisfying, safe — will not hold.
   Collaborative Problem Solving (Ross Greene)
6. Use Plan B: the three-step collaborative conversation
   Empathize with the child’s concern, share yours, and invite them to solve it together.
   Collaborative Problem Solving (Ross Greene)
7. Steelman objections to your own plans
   Before committing to a plan, state the strongest case against it in its most compelling form.
   Steelmanning
8. Evoke change talk instead of supplying it
   Ask questions that lead the person to voice their own reasons for changing.
   Motivational Interviewing, Made Practical
9. Behavioral experiments
   Test a belief by doing something and observing what actually happens.
   Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Made Practical
10. Encourage the effort and the process, not the outcome
    Encouragement builds inner confidence; outcome-praise creates dependency on adult evaluation.
    Natural and Logical Consequences (Rudolf Dreikurs)

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