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When Talking To Kids About Hard Things, Choose Truth Over Comfort

Good Inside with Dr. Becky

CHAPTER

The Importance of Naming Out Loud That You Don't Have Cancer

Use real words. When it comes to illness, naming out loud that you don't have it and your kid doesn't have it is super important because we take that for granted. And I would just say if he says that, like, oh, yeah, we can totally have pretzels now because look, life goes on in our house as usual. All right, pretzel time. If he asks questions, I'm happy to model how I'd go about that too. He might. But the key point is set up the conversation.

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