Parents diagnosed with cancer are often faced with the dilemma of how to tell their kids about their disease, especially if they are very young. For many children, cancer is not even a word in their vocabularies and if it is, it is often in the context of an older relative or family friend who might have passed away from the disease. Not only do parents have to explain their diagnosis in terms that are not overwhelming but provide some sort of comfort to the children as well so that the diagnosis does not become debilitating.
