5 Tips For Talking To Your Children About Your Breast Cancer Diagnosis
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5 Tips for Talking to Your Children About Your Breast Cancer Diagnosis
Being diagnosed with breast cancer is undoubtedly devastating and especially difficult for mothers since they would have to eventually tell their children about the diagnosis. For this reason, most of these mothers tend to take their time before they break the news while others just hope that the disease would go away so that they wouldn’t have to talk to their kids about it.
However, we all know that no secrets can be kept hidden forever. If you were recently diagnosed with breast cancer, you’d eventually have to tell your family. For your kids, hearing the news from you is much better than having them know about your condition from someone else.
The best thing for you to do is to figure out how to break the news so that your family would be able to understand and digest the news the best way they can.
How to Tell the News to Your Kids
Unlike grownups, preschoolers can’t really wrap their brains around the concept of breast cancer. The words “breast cancer” may just be another one of those new phrases that they learn each day.
To help you accomplish this challenging task, Breast Cancer Car Donations shares these five tips for talking to your children about your breast cancer diagnosis.
1. Give your children a brief overview of cancer.
You can start by talking to your kids about what cancer is and how it can affect one’s body. For instance, you can tell them about breast cancer facts and the type of treatment that you’ll have to get to fight off cancer. Try to use the simplest terms to your preschoolers and school-age children. It helps if you practice how you’re going to say it beforehand.
2. Be ready to answer their questions.
If it’s their first time to hear the word “breast cancer” and learn about it, they’d most likely ask you a lot of questions about it. Take as much time as you can to answer their questions. If you don’t know how to, you could always reassure them that you’d answer it as soon as you have more information about it.
3. Reassure them that it’s not their fault.
Some children might feel responsible for everything that’s going on—even if that is without basis at all. When this happens, make sure to help them understand that they had nothing to do with your current condition.
4. Allow them to take care of you.
When it comes to taking care of you, your children will be your number one volunteers. In this situation, you can assign some simple tasks to them that are appropriate for their age. For example, you can ask them to fetch you a glass of water or help you carry something.
5. Encourage them to express their feelings.
Always encourage your kids to voice out their opinions and feelings. However, if they’re not ready to talk about it yet, respect their wishes and tell them that it’s alright.
You Can Help Save Lives!
Breast cancer claims thousands of lives each year in the United States. This means that each year, thousands of children are left without their mothers because of breast cancer. Imagine how devastating this can be for the husbands and children left behind.
Fortunately, we can do something to help lower the number of breast cancer cases and deaths. Breast Cancer Car Donations, together with our IRS-certified 501(c)3 charity partners, will gladly receive any type of unwanted vehicle for the benefit of uninsured and underserved breast cancer patients in your local area. We auction off all donated vehicles and use the proceeds to support the programs of our charity partners that deliver comprehensive breast health services to communities all over the United States. Thanks to our donors, thousands upon thousands of individuals receive financial assistance, counseling, therapies, early screening and detection, and treatment as they go through their breast cancer journey.
It all starts with you filling out our simple online donation form or giving us a call at 866-540-5069 to give us your personal contact details and a few bits of basic information about your vehicle. Next, we’ll arrange for a licensed towing company to pick up and tow your vehicle for free from any location of your choice. Once your vehicle is sold at auction, we’ll have your tax-deductible sales receipt delivered to your doorstep so that you’ll get the opportunity to receive a huge tax break in the next tax season!
If you have questions about our vehicle donation program, call us at our toll-free hotline or send us a message online. You can also check out our FAQs page for more details.
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Now is the best time to make a massive impact in your community. Instead of letting moss grow on your junky old vehicle, donate it to help save lives! Call us now at 866-540-5069 to get started with your car donation!
Last Updated: March 10th, 2023