Growing Up with Diabetes

A chance to step into your child’ s shoes. When your child was diagnosed with diabetes your first priority was probably to learn everything you could about diabetes and how to manage it. Whether your child is a youngster or a teenager, you’ ve done your best to help with injections, meals and snacks, and the many other elements of a diabetes management program. But through all this, you may be overlooking the importance of your child’ s social and emotional development. Children want to be normal, and diabetes makes them " different." Many well-meaning parents inadvertently focus too much on their child’ s diabetes, and not enough on other aspects of their child’ s life. This unique book, written by a young woman who was diagnosed with diabetes at age 11, gives you the opportunity to understand and relate to your child’ s feelings. Drawing on the author’ s own experiences and those of the many children and young adults she’ s counseled, this sensitive guide explains:

• How children feel when they’ re diagnosed
• Why diabetes is a bigger adjustment for you than for your child
• How to encourage a healthy approach to diabetes
• The importance of diabetes education
• How to make your child’ s life as normal as possible
• Dealing with outside forces (school, day care, relatives, etc.)
• Eliminating the power struggle for independence in adolescence

• Books to Fund A Cure • A portion of this book’ s proceeds will go to the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International, a not-for-profit voluntary health agency, whose primary objective is to support and fund research to find the cause, cure, treatment, and prevention ofdiabetes and its complications. Juvenile Diabetes Foundation Library Health