Cancer is a complicated disease to understand, even for adults.
But if you, or someone in your family has cancer, discussing it with your children may be the most important thing you can do. Protecting Children Can Make Things Worse When cancer strikes a family, children sense that something is wrong, even if they don't know what it is. Talking it over with them, in words they can understand, is always better than hiding it. If you keep things from them, children think that things are worse than they really are. It is important to not only communicate with your children, but to listen to them, and make sure they understand what is happening.