I have read a few different articles in various ms sites that talk about when and how to tell people about having ms. One of the questions that keeps coming up for me is how do I tell my kids about whats going on with me. We have 3 boys 7, 10, and 12. All are still small even the 12 year old who is on growth hormones cause he is the size of a 3rd grader and still very naive.
They know nothing as of right now other then Daddy's legs are giving him problems and we joke about my short term memory problems. I have mixed emotions on how much and when we tell them what is going on. I don't want to tell them anything other then what I have already stated until we have at least gone through the first round of testing and hopefully have some answers and hopefully a dx of something. Yet I don't want to keep them completely in the dark either, (my psychology classes coming thru) I have learned that children are a lot more perceptive and understanding in things then we give them credit for they just don't have the resources to express their knowledge.
Should we start prepping them now for all the different possibilities MS or not, or do we what until we get some answers ourselves and then start educating them on the different things that could happen?
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They know nothing as of right now other then Daddy's legs are giving him problems and we joke about my short term memory problems. I have mixed emotions on how much and when we tell them what is going on. I don't want to tell them anything other then what I have already stated until we have at least gone through the first round of testing and hopefully have some answers and hopefully a dx of something. Yet I don't want to keep them completely in the dark either, (my psychology classes coming thru) I have learned that children are a lot more perceptive and understanding in things then we give them credit for they just don't have the resources to express their knowledge.
Should we start prepping them now for all the different possibilities MS or not, or do we what until we get some answers ourselves and then start educating them on the different things that could happen?
***Post broken into paragraphs for readability. Some of our members have vision problems with large blocks of type.***
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