Talking about Diagnosis and Shifts in Baseline
It's important to talk from the beginning about the other children.
Pediatric psychologist and grief counselor Nancy Frumer Styron stresses the importance of acknowledging that there are other children/siblings and that there are many ways they will be impacted. A mom shares her perspective of how her younger daughter’s illness might have impacted her older sons. A couple discusses the professional counsel they received about what to tell their two-year old daughter about her baby sister’s illness.
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Communicating with the siblings: What can we do to make this as less traumatic as possible, to minimize damage.
Out-of-home placement for our medically complex child gave us more time for our other child.
Telling Jake about his sister’s illness.
It's important to talk from the beginning about the other children.
Always give them a sense of what’s going on.
It’s important to think about your other children.
She told me how important it is to know the sad stuff too.
It’s important to know what the child is really asking.
It’s important to know what the child already thinks.
I don’t want him thinking about his brother’s life expectancy.
We never held anything back from them.
We postponed Make-a-Wish until Jessica was old enough to remember it.
What would Rachel say to Jessica if she could speak?
It’s important not to lie to them.