Helping Your Children Cope with Your Cancer: A Guide for Parents and Families [Paperback]

Peter Van Dernoot (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 12, 2002

A moving and profound book. Cancer is bad news. It's frightening to even think about it. Now think how frightening it would be for your children to know you have cancer. How do you tell them? How do you deal with the trauma and the pain? How do you prepare for the emotional and psychological upheaval a family endures when a parent has cancer? Now author Peter van Dernoot has gathered the real-life stories and experiences of over twenty parents who have been diagnosed with cancer. They share their deepest fears and their highest hopes as they provide the reader with invaluable advice, guidance and inspiration. This is a very special gift from families affected by cancer to families affected by cancer. Children are often the silent victims of their parent's cancer. Now this beautiful, moving, inspiring and informative book fills the critical need of children at their most vulnerable moments. Royalties from the sale of this book are being donated to The Children's Treehouse Foundation, a non-profit support group for children whose parents have cancer.

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About the Author

Since 1981 Peter van Dernoot has operated his own communications management company in Denver, Colorado. His wife died of lung cancer at the age of forty-five.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Hatherleigh Press (February 12, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1578261058
• ISBN-13: 978-1578261055
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,600,770 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Help for a difficult time, November 3, 2002

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Lou Ann Dixon (Louisville CO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Helping Your Children Cope with Your Cancer: A Guide for Parents and Families (Paperback)

This book would have been helpful for me in working through two bouts with cancer. In the privacy of my own home I was able to read the various scenarios and think about ways to continue dealing with my children and the dreaded disease. I recommend this book to any family having to cope with cancer and its devastating affect on all concerned.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for anyone who knows someone, October 23, 2002

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Michael V. Robben "MVR" (Aurora, CO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Helping Your Children Cope with Your Cancer: A Guide for Parents and Families (Paperback)

Though blessed with not having any of my immediate family stricken with such a horrible disease, I frequently find myself hearing of a friend or someone diagnosed with some form of cancer (non of us seem immune to such tragedy). Aside from initial sorrow of the news, I often find myself asking; does the person have children and how are they accepting the news? No one has ever supplied a warm and fuzzy answer to this question. Lost for words, I find myself referring this timely book over and over again. The author's personal experience and efforts to obtain multiple essays from others who have faced such hurdles, will provid enough encouragement to help those most important in our lives. Our children!
If you are not motivated to read this yourself, send it to someone or anyone in need.