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Handling a Child’s Illness books

Below are the best books we could find on Handling a Child’s Illness.

When a child falls ill, family life is disrupted in many ways—school, work, meals, and routine fall away while parents and family members care for the ailing child. Prolonged care can feel overwhelming and stressful, producing feelings of guilt in parents, siblings, and other caregivers. Learning to ask for help—and figuring out exactly what help to ask for—can be difficult when we feel that we’re supposed to be the ones taking care of everything and everybody. Finding our way to resilience starts with the courage of self-compassion.

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Every Day Counts: Lessons in Love, Faith, and Resilience from Children Facing Illness

Every Day Counts chronicles the remarkable stories of the children Maria Sirois worked with on a pediatric oncology ward.

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Medical Parenting: How to Navigate Health, Wellness and the Medical System with Your Child

As one of America’s Top Doctors™, a mother of two grown children, and a physician and surgeon with over 25 years’ experience, Dr. Jones understands that there is no greater responsibility as a parent than ensuring your child’s optimum health.

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When Your Child Is Sick: A Guide to Navigating the Practical and Emotional Challenges of Caring for a Child Who Is Very Ill

In When Your Child is Sick, psychosocial counselor Joanna Breyer distills decades of experience working with sick children and their families into a comprehensive guide for navigating the uncharted and frightening terrain.

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Homeopathic Medicine for Children and Infants

Homeopathic remedies are increasingly being used to treat common childhood ailments. They are safe, have no side effects or allergic reactions, are inexpensive and, above all, effective.

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Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tuesdays with Morrie comes Mitch Albom’s most personal story to date: An intimate and heartwarming memoir about what it means to be a family and the young Haitian orphan whose short life would forever change his heart.

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Noe: A Father-Son Song of Love, Life, Illness, and Death

Written with clarity and grace, this memoir of an adolescent boy’s four-year struggle with leukemia, his death at sixteen, and the aftermath, is presented from three perspectives: the recollections of the father, Phil Wolfson, MD; his son Noe’s story, told through Noe’s chemotherapy journal;...

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Depression and Your Child: A Guide for Parents and Caregivers

Seeing your child suffer in any way is a harrowing experience for any parent. Mental illness in children can be particularly draining due to the mystery surrounding it, and the issue of diagnosis at such a tender age.

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Finding Zoe: A Deaf Woman’s Story of Identity, Love, and Adoption

At just a few months old, Zoe was gradually losing her hearing. Her adoptive parents loved her—yet agonized—feeling they couldn’t handle raising a Deaf child.

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Mayo Clinic Guide to Raising a Healthy Child

Between the terrible twos and the teenage years, your child will undergo many transformative and, at times, challenging phases.

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Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

Solomon’s startling proposition in Far from the Tree is that being exceptional is at the core of the human condition—that difference is what unites us.

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