When the September Dilemma Continues Into October

For children who are ill, returning to school in September can be a mixture of relief and dread. Relief, because children thrive on the order, routines, and social life of school. Dread, because school can be an ambivalent experience for students who need some sort of accommodation in school.
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While schools must meet the needs of ill and disabled students by law, administrators and teachers range from amazingly helpful to eye-poppingly intransigent when asked to deviate from their norm. Parents are often counseled to “wait and see,” but what can you do when September turns into October and your child hasn’t settled comfortably into school?
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Thankfully, it doesn’t happen all the time. But it occurs often enough for us to have gleaned some advice from Chai Lifeline’s professionals and parents of children who are out of school for cancer treatments or who need extra assistance because of chronic illness or disabilities.
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Starting the New Year Off Right

We at Chai Lifeline have discussed writing a blog for years. Why haven’t we? Well, there are several excuses, er…reasons. What will we bring to the blogosphere that hasn’t been written before? Who will write it? Who will read it?
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Welcome to our blog: Chai Lifeline’s ideas on parenting, grandparenting, “sibling-ing” and living with serious pediatric illness.

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The truth is that we have much to say about living with pediatric illness. Since 1987, Chai Lifeline has helped tens of thousands of families navigate the waters of life-threatening illnesses like cancer and chronic illnesses that run the gamut from things you’ve heard of (like cerebral palsy) to genetic illnesses so rare only a few http://gradeessaywriter.co.uk/ children have them. As for the latter two questions, the answer is, “We’ll write it. We hope you read it.”
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Read it, comment, and enlighten us with your experiences and your knowledge.
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Just a few ground rules: We welcome discussion, but we do edit comments. They must be on-topic and respectful. Yes, you can disagree, but keep the language polite, please. Trolls will be thrown off the site.