When Your Children Become Your Caregivers: Ways to Restore the Wonder Years

In America, someone suffers a TBI every 23 seconds and one out of every eight women has breast cancer. After these and other injuries and diseases, the children find their roles suddenly reversed. The parent who is ill needs help and might find it easy to relinquish responsibility to the child. With the understanding and sympathy of someone who has been there, Deborah helps participants recognize the reality of their situations. She offers a variety of ways to restore the wonder years including age-appropriate activities, time with their peers, and school programs.