At Wonders & Worries, we teach kids about their parent’s illness and help make medical terms and supplies less scary. For example, our Saturday group members created their own medical friends using surgical hats, gloves, booties, tongue depressors and much more.  We love and encourage their creativity!

A fun ongoing activity to help bolster positive family communication is to make a mailbox (empty shoe boxes work great or Hobby Lobby has wooden ones with a flag you can put up) where you can leave encouraging notes for your child and they in turn can leave messages for you. A simple note with a sticker that mentions something you love about them can go a very long way.

You can also encourage your child to write down any questions they may have about things for you. Sometimes children feel safer writing things than saying it out loud.

Have fun with it and be sure to save special notes as keepsakes!

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AECOM employees have supported our Wonders & Worries Hoping Heart family fun event for the last nine years through their time, talent, and treasure. Thank you to the employees that volunteered their time this year to put so many smiles on the faces of our client families!

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