A parent in active treatment is still a parent at 3pm, at bedtime, and at 2am when a child wakes with a nightmare. The Childcare Question is a practical, non-clinical guide to the parts of treatment life that happen at the school gate and the kitchen table: choosing age-appropriate words for the diagnosis, building a backup chain for pickups and evenings, briefing teachers and other parents, and answering the hardest question a child can ask without promising something you cannot guarantee. It does not give medical advice, prognosis, or treatment guidance. It helps you keep the household running and the children oriented while the oncology team handles the clinical decisions. Written for readers with or without a partner, family, paid leave, savings, or transport, it offers scripts, handoff messages, and a one-page plan you can hand to someone else on the days you cannot hold it all.
