Parenting is demanding under the best circumstances. When you live with a long-term condition, the demands of family life can feel overwhelming, and guilt or worry may be constant companions. This book offers an honest, practical guide to parenting when your own health is unpredictable. It helps you explain your condition to children of different ages, build routines that respect your limits, ask for and accept help, and communicate openly with your partner. You will learn to let go of unrealistic expectations and focus on what matters most: the quality of the relationship you have with your children, not the quantity of perfect days. Drawing on the collective wisdom of clinicians, parents, and people living with lasting conditions, Cormac Jesmond Jardine provides realistic strategies you can adapt to your own life. There is no magic solution, but there is a path through. This book is about being the parent you already are, with a little more support and a lot less shame. Part of The Long-Term Condition Library.
About the author
Cormac Jesmond Jardine writes for The Long-Term Condition Library.
