Parenting Tips & Activities
Parenting is rewarding – and challenging! We’re here to help during this difficult time. We offer therapeutic tips and expressive activities to help parents and caregivers communicate with their children about illness in the family.
1. Communication
- Why Wonders & Worries 🎥
- Why Wonders & Worries: A Teen’s Perspective 🎥
- Talking with Kids about Cancer: A Family’s Story 🎥
- Finding the right time to have a conversation with your children – HALT 🎥
- How to understand a child or teenager’s experience – CVLR 🎥
2. Activities
- Wonders & Worries Jar 🎥
- Teaching Kids About Cancer 🎥
- Teaching Kids about Port-A-Cath 🎥
- Teaching Kids about Symptoms: Making Blood Soup 🎥
- Feelings Mask Activity 🎥
- Fun with Drawing
- Create a Home Coping Kit
- Sharing Your Love Through Shoebox Mail
3. General Parenting
- 3 Tools to Practice Conflict Resolution Skills
- Simplify & Say No This Holiday Season
- How Busy is Too Busy?
- Summer Reading List Triggers
- Help Your Child Respond to “How I Spent My Summer Vacation”
- Granting Wishes in Fantasy
- Special Gifts for the Holidays
4. Quarterly Highlights for Clients