Interactive
When a Parent Is Sick
Something is wrong with the person who raised you or dad and nobody is saying enough.
You know something is wrong. Nobody is saying enough. And the not-knowing is its own kind of heavy.
For the Children ages 6 to 12 who know something is wrong with one of the people who raised them — and who are navigating the specific fear and uncertainty of a caregiver illness that hasn't been fully explained to them. Also for caregivers and counselors who want to give children language for what they're carrying before it becomes silence.
The Name It First Experience
Something is wrong with the person who raised you. The grown-ups are talking in a different way. There are more doctor visits. There are things you hear and things you're not supposed to hear. And you have questions that nobody has fully answered. In When a Parent Is Sick, you navigate what to do with what you know and what you don't — who to ask, what to do with the fear, what happens when you get an answer you weren't expecting. Each path leads somewhere different. This is a story for children who are carrying something big about someone they love — and who need permission to ask, to feel, and to be held through whatever the answer is. The output is your When a Parent Is Sick Agreement — what you know, what you need, and what you're doing with the waiting.
You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.
Sample questions
- What do you think is happening that nobody is quite explaining?
- What do you think it feels like for the person who is sick?
- What would YOU want a grown-up to tell you — something real — about what is going on?
Research basis
Compas childhood coping with parental illness / Christ children of parents with cancer / family communication theory on illness disclosure to children
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