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When It's Your Child

They need honesty, not heroics.

Age-appropriate ways to tell them, help them cope, and protect the routines that make them feel safe.

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When It's Your Child guides

Helping kids cope while you're in treatment
When It's Your Child

Helping kids cope while you're in treatment

Kids do not need you to be perfect. They need enough predictability to feel safe, enough honesty to trust you, and enough permission to still be kids.

Telling your child you have cancer
When It's Your Child

Telling your child you have cancer

There is no perfect script. Kids usually sense something is wrong before you find the words anyway, and what they imagine in the silence is often worse than the truth, carefully told.