This study examines the difficulties encountered by parents caring for pre-adolescent children who have severe multiple health problems. Working within the frameworks of narrative psychotherapy (Spence, 1982; Viederman & Perry, 1980; Vitz, 1992; Benjamin, 1998), the researcher examined parents' discourses and identified the strategies they employed to deal with their situations (Maynard, 2003). The results show that the participants' ability to tell their stories to others who empathize with them provided an essential therapeutic function (Obeng, 2008). The most important discourse strategy identified was the use of words that have strong implications for dealing with emotional valence.