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Handling a Child’s Illness & parenting

Below are the best resources we could find on Handling a Child’s Illness and parenting.

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This Advice Could Help Parents of Kids with Serious Illnesses

As a psychologist and counselor specializing in the care of children with cancer, Joanna Breyer has advice for families facing stress for which they never prepared. Author of “When Your Child Is Sick,” Breyer joins Judy Woodruff for a conversation.

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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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My Daughters Are Fine, But I’ll Never Be the Same

For a parent, there is no sorrow deeper or more encompassing than the loss of a child. But there is another that approaches it, and that, paradoxically, is grief averted—the grief of the narrow escape when a child comes close to death but survives.

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Helping Your Child with Chronic Illness

Does your child have asthma? Allergies? A child psychiatrist has advice for parents about supporting their child with a chronic illness.

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What Parents Can Do to Make a Child’s Chronic Illness Easier

When a child’s wellbeing depends on vigilant monitoring and consistent medical attention, the everyday anxiety and stress that all parents deal with is made worse by the fact that failing to keep up with treatment can be a matter of life and death.

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Coping and Self-Care When Your Child Is in the Hospital

When your child is sick in the hospital, it can feel like you’ve entered an alternative universe. That heartache hit me like a tidal wave while caring for my desperately ill son in two children’s hospitals for eight months straight in 2015.

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Bernie Siegel

Bernie Siegel shares the importance of love on the healing process.

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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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Hospitals Help Families Cope: The Psychological Toll of a Child’s Illness

New approaches are finding and treating patients’ and families’ emotional distress.

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When a Child Has a Chronic Illness: Tips for Managing Family Stress

Tami Benton, MD, the executive director of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, discusses normalizing family life and setting limits when a child has a chronic medical condition.

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