The Sunday Mail - 01.09.2019

Health

WealtH & Holidays

the health

section

approved

by doctors

september 1, 2019

Rising stars... the

best hotels with

their own bakeries

Holidays PageS 68 - 69

Don’t let ‘Bank

of Mum and Dad’

ruin retirement

Wealth PageS 60 - 61

The truth about

Kim’s £20 gummy

bear hair pills...

Health PageS 56 - 57

good news for the

baby in the family:

you’ll live longer!

Health Page 55

How do you tell

your children

you have cancer?

It’s the gut-wrenching conversation every

parent prays they will never have. So...

t

HE secret to successful par­

enting, I’ve learned, is sur­

prisingly simple. In a word:

communication. But when it

comes to telling our innocent

children about sex or the pain

and suffering in the world, we suddenly

become tight­lipped.

I realised this for myself during a conver­

sation that made me sick to my stomach –

telling my then three­year­old son Ludo

that his baby brother had been stillborn.

But on the advice of a grief counsellor, I

told Ludo about the situation in as much

detail as he wanted and let him ask the

questions he needed to. This was a talk that

would come to define the relationship I

have with my children today. They ask me

By Marina Fogle

turn to page 52

‘IT’S BETTER

TO BE OPEN’:

Helen Addis

with daughters

Belle, far left,

and April, and

son Archie

JOHN GODWIN