How to support your child

In this section, you can get advice from adults with alopecia about how best to support a child who has hair loss.

As well as wanting to get an understanding about alopecia itself, it's causes, behaviour and the services and treatments available, you may be feeling unsure how to talk about the condition and how to advise and support your child emotionally.

You'll never get it perfect - no one ever does. But we hope that using this website and its resources for parents, children or teens will give you a great help.

In 'How to Support Your Child' there are four headings:

• Get involved
• Give them a say
• Get information
• Dealing with bullying
  

Getting sufficient support for yourself is very important, too. Take a look at our page on 'staying positive', which covers some of the common emotional affects on parents of children who develop alopecia and how to deal with them.

We'd also strongly suggest that you join the HeadzUp Mates message board. There is a special, private forum for parents to exchange information and support - talking to other mums, dads and guardians in the same situation as you may well help tremendously.

We hope you find this site helpful but we'd welcome you feedback if you think we could improve it


Date: 21 June 2007