UNrattled: A Podcast for Parents
Sep 28, 2026 · 58 min · 13 segments
### Episode Description Vaccinations have become one of parenting’s most complicated conversations. But what changed? In this episode of *UNrattled*, Jessica and Venay sit down with pediatrician Dr…
Jonathan HolmesGuestJessicaHostVenayHostIf we were parenting in 1995 instead of 2025, why would this decision have felt so different? The decision to vaccinate.
What's different in a decade?
So as we go through today, I think there are lots of things that are different.
But the central idea is that parents nowadays are living in a paradox between too much information and then over the last decade or so, a lack of trust in where that information comes from.
This is something that I've been thinking a lot about where parents haven't like actively made the choice.
They've been pulled slowly without their own will or control to start thinking differently than they used to by all of these different factors.
And so I think that's the thing is you have all these environmental factors that are now pushing it that parents back in 95, they didn't have.
sounds forever ago.
I was graduating high school.
I wasn't even alive.
I know.
I was 10.
But you're right.
It was a no-brainer for me.
I mean, I had my son at 19.
It was a no-brainer.
But by the time I had my daughter and I was 31, totally different.
I had access to more information.
And not that that's a bad thing, but it was a harder decision.
If we were parenting in 1995 instead of 2025, why would this decision have felt so different? The decision to vaccinate.
What's different in a decade?
So as we go through today, I think there are lots of things that are different.
But the central idea is that parents nowadays are living in a paradox between too much information and then over the last decade or so, a lack of trust in where that information comes from.
This is something that I've been thinking a lot about where parents haven't like actively made the choice.
They've been pulled slowly without their own will or control to start thinking differently than they used to by all of these different factors.
And so I think that's the thing is you have all these environmental factors that are now pushing it that parents back in 95, they didn't have.
sounds forever ago.
I was graduating high school.
I wasn't even alive.
I know.
I was 10.
But you're right.
It was a no-brainer for me.
I mean, I had my son at 19.
It was a no-brainer.
But by the time I had my daughter and I was 31, totally different.
I had access to more information.
And not that that's a bad thing, but it was a harder decision.
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