Communicating with Your Child
Lessons Learned About Communication
- Everyone deserves to know about what is going on
- Euphemisms can be confusing
- The worst way to hear something is to overhear it
- Link medical news with observable changes
- Welcome and explore your child’s questions
- Questions don’t always need immediate answers
- Seek out opportunities to talk
- It’s alright to share your emotional reactions
- Think about the timing of information
- Provide information, and accept some children’s unwillingness to talk
- Written communication can be helpful too
- Help other adults talk with your child about the illness
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