Survivor’s Guilt
“Whoa. This is a real thing,” I thought to myself when I finally realized where my brain was going. We had been home from the hospital for ...
When Kindness Keeps Us Going
When your family is facing cancer, you might feel like you are continually running on fumes. You haven’t showered, gone grocery shopping, or ...
Fighting Isolation as a Cancer Parent
Isolation – it’s one of the many painful challenges cancer families experience during and after treatment. Many parents feel they can’t l...
6 Ways Cancer Changes Your Perspective
When your child is diagnosed with cancer, it changes the lens through which you view the world. Things look and feel different, and certain thi...
Cancer Parents’ Advice to Themselves
If you could go back to the day your child was diagnosed, what advice would you give yourself, knowing what you know now? This is the question ...
Advocating for Your Child During Cancer Treatment
Occasionally, parents of children with cancer experience surprising and tense situations with clinical care teams. For Nicole, mother of acute ...
Self-Care Tips for Cancer Caregivers
When you’re caring for a child with cancer, self-care could easily be the last thing on your mind. Caregivers frequently hear phrases like ...
How to Be the Friend a Cancer Family Needs
When your family is facing childhood cancer, the friends who go above and beyond make all the difference. But if you are that friend or family ...
5 Tips to Help Your Child Take Their Medication
As any parent who has ever had a sick child knows, sometimes it takes more than a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down. Helping kids ...
Tips for Bringing a Meal to a Cancer Family
During the stress and uncertainty of cancer treatment, a home-cooked meal from a friend can be a welcome relief. If you're considering bringing...
Don’t Know A Child With Cancer? You Can Still Help.
If you are the kind of person who would gladly offer to make a meal or run errands for a family facing childhood cancer, but don’t know any p...
Talking to your child about their peer with cancer
Cancer is a complicated disease, so it can be hard to explain it to your child if a friend or classmate has cancer. However, it is important fo...
Gifts for a Child Battling Cancer
If you know a child battling cancer, you may want to show you care with a gift. It might be hard to know what the child would enjoy most, or wh...
How Cancer May Change Holiday Traditions
A cancer diagnosis may mean that plans will have to change from what they’ve been in the past. Maybe your sister always hosts Thanksgiving di...
3 Gifts that Aren’t Allowed in Hospitals – And What to Bring Instead
If you’re planning to bring a gift to a friend battling cancer, you might not know that some traditional gifts are discouraged - even against...
4 Ways You Can Protect Immunocompromised Cancer Patients
Many cancer patients who are undergoing chemotherapy can become immunocompromised – this means their immune systems are very weak, and they a...
5 Ways to Help a Sibling of a Cancer Patient Feel Important
Being a sibling of a childhood cancer patient can be scary and confusing. Family dynamics change, schedules are unpredictable and schoolwork an...
Finishing Treatment Didn’t Feel as Good as We Thought
In April 2014, doctors found a mass in Joe’s left kidney. Two months later, he was formally diagnosed with metastatic Ewing sarcoma. After he...