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Kacie Stehling

Kacie Stehling

Certified Child Life Specialist at Wonders & Worries, a nonprofit supporting children through a parent's serious illness or injury.

Aug 17, 2026

JulieHOST
10:41
Like what you as a clinician noticed changed for that child?
10:45
Yeah.
10:46
So I have one family that comes to mind.
10:49
There was a child that I worked with and he found out about his mom's cancer diagnosis at recess at school.
10:59
So what happened was the mom told her friend about her diagnosis and she Then her friend told her family and she didn't know that she hadn't told her children yet.
11:14
And so the son of that family saw this kid at the playground at recess and came up to him and said, hey, your mom has cancer and she's going to die.
11:24
And he just was shocked.

9 MINS LATER

JulieHOST
20:54
How would you coach them? Could we kind of walk through what like a simple conversation or even model some language that maybe they could borrow, kind of give them some scripting?

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