From the article: When a Parent Has Cancer - 10 Tips for Helping Your Teenage Child Cope
How can we help teens cope with a parent with cancer? Teens can be a special breed even when both parents are healthy. What can we do to support them when a parent has cancer? Maintaining open communication, keeping a sense of humor, and remembering the little things that can be huge in your child's eyes, such as passing his driver's test, is helpful. Enforcing rules and setting limits can be just as important. What have you done that has helped a teen cope with a parent with cancer? Please share your tips for others, and read what they have found to be helpful as well. Share Your Tips
I'm a teen with a parent with cancer
- I will answer to this even if I was a teen! Seeing a smile on his face everyday, joining my dear dad when he asks me to pray with him everynight. His faith and strength and his acceptance to whatever happens..My family and my friends are a big support. However they weren't nearly enough. Even though as teenagers we are expected to be lost and angry all the times, i'm not,I can't afford to be. Seeing what he is going through demands me to be strong, understanding, supportive, realistic and above all... MATURE. So the main help is myself yet through it all I'm always counting blindfully on God, for I know through everything is possible, and when hopes are lost he'll figure out a way to make it all right, I just know he will Miriam
- —Guest Miriam
