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Search - When a Parent Has Cancer : A Guide to Caring for Your Children/Becky and the Worry Cup : A Children's Book About a Parent's Cancer (2-book package)

When a Parent Has Cancer A Guide to Caring for Your Children/Becky and the Worry Cup A Children's Book About a Parent's Cancer - 2-book package
Author: Wendy S. Harpham

At some point in our lives, many of us will face the crisis of an unexpected illness. For parents, the fear, anxiety, and confusion resulting from a cancer diagnosis can be particularly devastating. How can you care responsibly for a child when you are in special need of care? How much should you tell your child? How can life go on -- for everyo... more »ne in the family -- when you are faced with months, even years, of treatment?When a Parent Has Cancer. A Guide to Caring for Your Children is a book for families written from the heart of experience. A mother, physician, and cancer survivor, Dr. Wendy Harpham offers dear, direct, and sympathetic advice for parents challenged with the task of raising normal, healthy children while they struggle with a potentially life-threatening disease.Dr. Harpham lays the groundwork of her book with specific plans for helping children through the upheaval of your diagnosis and treatment, remission and recovery, and, if necessary, confronting the possibility of death. With full understanding of the difficulty of achieving balance in the midst of change, she emphasizes the importance of being honest with your children about the gravity of the illness, whileassuring them that their basic needs will always be met. She encourages families to create a "new normal," in which cancer becomes a manageable part of daily life, and suggests concrete, creative ways for all familymembers to work together to achieve this equilibrium. Dr. Harpham also addresses the special needs of single parents, as well as teenagers and the well spouse, who are learning to cope with a loved one's illness.Included with When a Parent Has Cancer is Becky and the Worry Cup, an illustrated children's book that tells the story of a seven-year-old girl's experiences with her mother's cancer. Becky and the Worry Cup, which can be read by the child alone or together with a parent, poignantly touches on the fears, anger, guilt, and uncertainty that children feel when their mother or father is sick. Dr. Harpham has given us two important and invaluable books. When a Parent Has Cancer: A Guide to Caring for Your Children and Becky and the Worry Cup are written with the honesty and clear-sightedness that can come only from lived experience. She offers comfort, encouragement, and reasonable hope at the exact moment you might fear none is to be found. Most important, these books provide a plan of action for you and your children to live meaningfully and well when life is at its most uncertain.

ISBN-13: 9780060187095
ISBN-10: 0060187093
Publication Date: 2/26/1997
Pages: 208
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Currently 3/5 Stars.

3 stars, based on 1 rating

Publisher: HarperCollins
Book Type: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 0
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Genres:

Health, Fitness & Dieting >> Diseases & Physical Ailments >> Cancer >> General
Health, Fitness & Dieting >> Mental Health >> General
Parenting & Relationships >> Parenting >> General

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