I asked the doctors, “So how do I talk to my children about their illness? What do I tell them when they ask questions about how long they’ll live?” And they said, “Treat it just like when kids ask questions about sex- answer them on a ‘need-to-know basis’.” “Okay,” I thought, “I can do that.” I figured that my kids are young so I’ll have plenty of time to figure it out.
But then, as we were driving down the road one day, a question came out of the blue: “Mommy, how does the daddy seed get into the mommy’s tummy to make the baby?” I stuttered and swerved and mumbled something about needing to pay attention to the road so I’d have to get back to them on that. I thought, “A need to know basis??! What does a four- and six-year-old need to know about that?” And that’s when I realized I didn’t know how to talk to them about sex any more than I knew how to tell them that the disease they were born with, cystic fibrosis, has a life expectancy of 37 years.
Parenting is tough enough at times for just about every parent. But […]

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