What Happens When Someone I Love Has Cancer?: Explain the Science of Cancer and How a Loved One's Diagnosis and Treatment Affects a Kid's Day-To-day Life (What About Me? Books)

Great book! It really helped my 7 year old understand what I'm going through. Today he said, is today one of your tired days? The illustrations of the cells was helpful. He seemed to understand why I needed treatments for so long. So kill all of the tiny broken cells after they removed the big ones in surgery. I read it to my 5 year old and it helped, I just skipped a few pages that were over his attention span.

This is something I have used with kids going through living with someone with cancer. I have also sent it home parents to read with their kids so that they can have family discussions in their own home. This book does a really great job at informing kids on their level. It also takes some of the stress away from parents who might not know exactly what to say or how to have this conversation with their kids. It is such a hard conversation but so important because if we don't inform our kiddo's then they try to fill in the gaps themselves and that isn't usually the correct information.

We found this book to be extremely helpful in explaining to our child what cancer is and how it is affecting their parent.I would highly recommend this book to anyone who needs to explain this to their own child. It gives the intangible idea of cancer to a kid so much more tangible.

The media could not be loaded. I have a very inquisitive 5 yr old and my dad was recently diagnosed with a very aggressive form of cancer.I could tell that my oldest was seeing and noticing the changes but I wasn’t sure how to explain it or talk about it with him so I avoided inviting conversation and questions from him on the subject.It was happening so quickly and I couldn’t seem to get my footing on how to describe it and hoping to spare him of extra fear and concern I didn’t want to add worry into his thinking.This book was super helpful!A friend of mine that is a counselor recommended it so I had decent expectations but I was leery of how it would describe cancer. I explain this in the video I made and attached, but it was written to where the person with cancer could be just about anyone! So it won’t take much or any explanation when reading it to a kid who’s parent has cancer vs a kid who’s grandparent has cancer and so on.I recommend it for sure!

I got this for my 8 year old because his dad was diagnosed with cancer this summer. He seemed to enjoy the book and have good questions following. I did have to explain that there are different types of chemo and dad doesn’t have to do the type mentioned in the book because his is in pill form but that’s about it. Explained well in a non scary way.

This book was excellent to help explain my breast cancer to my 5 and 9 year olds. It also helps them understand recovery time and that some days mom can do things with them, and some days mom just has to rest. They’ve both referenced it since reading it and I feel it helped them understand my diagnosis a lot.

This is way over a toddler's understanding. It is a relatively long book that tries to explain the science of it all. My 4 year old likes it well enough, but it takes multiple sittings to read it. It is well written and helpful.

I bought is book to help my 8 and 6 year old grand daughters understand what their mothers situation. Easy for 8 year old to read herself. Colorful illustrations.