So before we start to close down Lora, is there any words of wisdom for somebody that hasn't really been in this market place? Meaning taking care of children as much as they want to. I was just in a few different places in the last week or two, speaking. And people come up and they talk to you, because I talk about pediatrics too from a risk management perspective. And they'll come up and they'll say, man ... One woman specifically just on Saturday said, "I just moved back to this area and I had a great pediatric practice, and now I'm having a little bit of a struggle getting it going." And that's from a million different reasons. But the people that want to get involved in pediatrics and learn more and more, how do they get started? You know, what's the first step from your perspective? I think the first step is understanding how important it is to adjust a child. You and I both know that the health of children is not what it was almost 30 years ago when I started chiropractic. We have so many children with so many needs at this point in time that we as chiropractors need to step up to the bat, and we need to educate the public on what chiropractic brings to the table as far as health care is concerned for these children. And I'm not taking drug care, I am talking health care. And every piece of information that we were taught nutritionally, naturally, subluxation, we need to bring it to the table and we need to put that out into our communities. But I think what chiropractors really need to understand is in the first year of life we have the greatest impact through chiropractic adjustments, in my opinion, to affect neuroplasticity. And that is the brain development and rewiring for these children. And to me Stu, if I had my choice, I would have every single baby that was ever born evaluated by a chiropractor to make sure that these kids start out with all the positives, and not the negatives. Because I want to see optimal brain growth and development in children so that they can be the best person that they can possibly be as they grow up. The next level is up to age three, and then age five, and then by age eight we start to lose the ability to make those really large impactful neurological changes in the brain. So I think people need to understand why we need to see kids. Because if you understand what your purpose is, the goal is easy. Because you have like focused yourself on the importance of the job that you're going to do. I think being a part of the community, I had the pleasure of working with palmer students in the business center two weeks ago when I was on campus talking to them about how do you start a practice, how do you become the authority of chiropractic in your town that you work on? And that's being part of your community. And giving to your community, not just taking from your community. So one thing I suggested to them to do, and it's another thing that I've done, is talk about ... Anybody can use this, but we did a car seat little lecture called you're driving me crazy. And it was all about car seat safety for children, and having your local police department or fire department come in and check car seats in the parking lot of your clinic. Be part of the community, let people know that you're all about child welfare, and child health, and healthy practices.
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