Hollye Harrington Jacobs: Activities to Do With Children When a Parent Has Cancer


For a past few days, I’ve felt a small underneath a weather. It’s humorous (not in a “ha ha” kind of way) how supportive we still am, how only feeling trifling can take me behind to my cancer days (daze?).

When we was diagnosed with cancer, my initial suspicion wasn’t about me. Rather (as is a box with many parents), we wondered how on earth we could be a good mom to my daughter who, during a time, was roughly 5.

One of a initial things we did was emanate an “energy bank.” we spent many days in a plane position resting (to a best of my ability) in an bid to amass even a teeniest bit of appetite that we could “spend” on a daughter when she came home from school.

On days that we was in a unfounded array of chemo despondency (there were a few too many of those!), my daughter and we twisted adult in my bed and watched what we called “Silver Lining Movies.” We called them “Silver Lining Movies” since a china backing of my being ill was that we could do something that we would not routinely do: graze together and watch feel-good movies. We watched all from Disney princesses to The Sound of Music to Annie. Some other things that we favourite to do when we felt quite rotten:

  • Reminisce (as many as a preschooler can!) over aged print albums.
  • Color. A lot.
  • Play diversion on diversion of Go Fish and Chutes and Ladders.
  • Watch YouTube videos. With a pleasantness camber of a gnat, we generally appreciated how brief they are! Have we seen “The Laughing Baby”? Oh, dear heavens. You might need some Depends to watch it, since after carrying seen it oh, we don’t know, some-more than 100 times, we still giggle so hard!

On a days that we blessedly had some-more energy, we favourite to take brief walks possibly around a yard or (on a unequivocally good day!) during a beach. Picking flowers was always a prominence of those honeyed small outings as well.

One of a many critical things that we schooled about parenting (in general), pleasantness of my cancer diagnosis, is that doing some-more with children isn’t indispensably better. Cozy, quiet, focused alone time means as many (if not more!) to a child than anything else.

As ill as we was (and there were days when we didn’t consider it was probable to be any sicker!), we managed to get by it. Today, during scarcely 7, she is a healthy, happy and well-adjusted child, that is a biggest Silver Lining we ever could have hoped for!

To review some-more about Hollye’s holistic and humorous tour over, around, above and next breast cancer, greatfully revisit her blog, The Silver Pen (http://www.thesilverpen.com/). You might email her during [email protected] or follow her on Twitter @hollyejacobs.

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