Raising Teens with Diabetes

Raising Teens with Diabetes
Author: Moira McCarthy
Publisher: Spry Publishing
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2013-06-04
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1938170210

2013 Mom's Choice Awards® Winner Hormones. Growth spurts. Mood swings. All combined with blood sugars.. The teen years with diabetes on board are a challenging time for parents and anyone who cares about a child with diabetes. Raising Teens with Diabetes: A Survival Guide for Parents, by well-known diabetes mom, author, and advocate Moira McCarthy, is a no-nonsense, honest approach at not just surviving but thriving in those years, from a mom who has been there.. Raising Teens with Diabetes is a must-have resource for anyone navigating the waters of parenting a child with diabetes.

KiDS FiRST Diabetes Second

KiDS FiRST Diabetes Second
Author: Leighann Calentine
Publisher: Spry Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2012-06-05
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1938170059

2013 ERIC HOFFER BOOK AWARD WINNER Raising a child is a difficult job. Raising a child with a chronic illness such as diabetes can be a difficult job with a side order of special challenges. Leighann Calentine’s D-Mom Blog is an invaluable resource for parents and caregivers of children with diabetes. Leighann shares her family’s experiences with her daughter’s type 1 diabetes in a forum that is intimate, informative, and inspirational. In a style both practical and affirming, Kids First, Diabetes Second presents Leighann’s advice to help parents and caregivers enable children with diabetes to thrive. Learn how to automate tasks, navigate challenges, celebrate achievements, establish a support group, relieve stress, and avoid being consumed by management of the condition, while focusing on what’s most important: raising a happy, healthy child.

The Everything Parent's Guide To Children With Juvenile Diabetes

The Everything Parent's Guide To Children With Juvenile Diabetes
Author: Moira McCarthy
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2007-04-02
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1605502715

Parents of children who have been diagnosed with diabetes are faced with an overwhelming, and sometimes frightening, amount of information. The Everything Parent’s Guide to Children with Juvenile Diabetes helps readers to cope with the challenges of helping their children live happy, healthy lives while controlling the disease. Parents of children who have been diagnosed with diabetes are faced with an overwhelming, and sometimes frightening, amount of information. The Everything Parent’s Guide to Children with Juvenile Diabetes helps readers to cope with the challenges of helping their children live happy, healthy lives while controlling the disease. This reassuring, easy-to-use guide features advice on: -Adjusting to life with diabetes -Helping children take control of their health -Monitoring diet and insulin levels -Handling emergencies -Finding support for children and parents

Highs & Lows of Type 1 Diabetes

Highs & Lows of Type 1 Diabetes
Author: Patrick McAllister
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2018-02-06
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 1680992996

Valuable tips, tricks, and advice from a veteran young adult with Type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes (T1D) can be a daunting diagnosis, especially for a young kid or a teen. Patrick McAllister knows. Diagnosed with T1D at age twelve, McAllister’s life changed forever, and he faced an uncertain future of insulin shots, diet regulations, and high school. If only I had a roadmap, he thought. So, years after he learned things the hard way, he decided to write one. Whether it is managing mood swings, hormones, or blood sugar levels, Highs & Lows of Type 1 Diabetes is the ultimate teenager’s and young adult’s handbook for surviving, thriving, and flourishing with T1D during one of the most terrifying, yet exciting, phases of your life. Many think of T1D as a scary disease that is sporadic and uncontrollable, but after eight years of dealing with the literal and figurative highs and lows of T1D, McAllister has learned that it is more a lifestyle change. These pages detail a framework for every situation you could possibly imagine involving T1D, from coming home from the hospital after your diagnosis to preparing to leave your nest for freshman year at college. Learn how to: Count carbohydrates, pump insulin like a pro, and correct irregular blood sugar levels Tell your friends, get good grades, and survive school Play sports with the right game-plan Navigate sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll And more! Type 1 diabetes stinks, but you don’t have to go through it blind and alone! Some have learned it the hard way, but Highs & Lows of Type 1 Diabetes will ensure that you will take control of your T1D diagnosis, conquer your adolescent years, and live a healthy and fulfilling life.

Diabetes

Diabetes
Author: Katherine J. Moran
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2006-04-27
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780810856424

Diabetes: The Ultimate Teen Guide is a practical guide for teens with diabetes that is written in everyday teen language. This book talks about issues specific to teens ages 16 to 19, and it includes multiple no-nonsense tips that demonstrate how life can be lived to the full even with diabetes.

Taking Diabetes to School

Taking Diabetes to School
Author: Kim Gosselin
Publisher: Jayjo Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Diabetes
ISBN: 9781891383281

Uses a simple story about a young boy at school to present information about diabetes. A young boy describes what it is like to have diabetes, how it makes hiim feel, and how it can be treated and controlled.

Teens with Diabetes

Teens with Diabetes
Author: Michael A. Harris
Publisher: American Diabetes Association
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2014-06-02
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1580405770

Written by three psychologists with more than 50 years of collective experience in the field of diabetes and youth, Teens with Diabetes provides evidence-based techniques for clinicians to treat the psychological needs of children with diabetes and help them transition into their teenage years. The authors have provided care to thousands of diabetic teens and their families from initial diagnosis to leaving home for college. Any professional working with diabetic teens, including psychologists, physicians, social workers, dietitians, and nurse educators, needs this how-to handbook for working with what is arguably one of the most difficult populations in diabetes. Topics covered include handling the initial diagnosis of diabetes in teens, talking with young people about diabetes in a manner that is effective and reduces reactivity, improving diabetes self-care, helping families negotiate the challenges of adolescent diabetes, dealing with peer relations, dealing with high-risk issues related to diabetes, and handling with mood problems.

American Diabetes Association Guide to Raising a Child with Diabetes

American Diabetes Association Guide to Raising a Child with Diabetes
Author: Jean Roemer
Publisher: American Diabetes Association
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2011-04-01
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1580403913

The American Diabetes Association Guide to Raising a Child with Diabetes, 3rd edition features the latest advances in diabetes care to help your child have a healthy active childhood. Full of problem-solving examples and easy-to-use tables, you will learn how: To adjust insulin to allow for the foods kids love to eatTo help the child with type 2 diabetesTo plan meals that are nutritious and balancedTo play sports and games safelyTo handle sick daysYour child can maintain a busy schedule and still feel healthy and strongTo negotiate the twists and turns of being "different"To accept the physical and emotional challenges that life has to offerAnd much more

Parenting Children with Diabetes

Parenting Children with Diabetes
Author: Eliot LeBow
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2019-10-01
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1538131366

Parenting Children with Diabetes addresses the absence of information needed for successful diabetes management including more advanced diabetes education, information on emotional trauma, relationships issues and problems inside and outside the home that are caused while growing up with diabetes. This book offers parents a 360-degree perspective of what is happening to their child as they grow into and grow up with diabetes, from diagnosis to monitoring and controlling their blood sugars to their exposure to other people’s opinions in schools and other common situations as to how they should handle their diabetes. This book provides parents with special tools, insights, and education so they can more confidently and effectively communicate, understand, and empathize with their child's experience with diabetes and their child's relationship with the world around them. Eliot LeBow thoughtfully addresses readers and his work Helps parents resolve resistance to diabetes management Creates and fosters emotional stability within the family living with diabetes Guides parents to building a healthy, supportive relationship for and with their child Prepares parents for the emotional ups and downs of diabetes management Offers insight into situations most children living with diabetes face Provides information about working with the school system to make sure their child is safe

Diabetes

Diabetes
Author: Jodyanne Benson
Publisher: 'The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc'
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2020-12-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1499468121

As diabetes rates among teenagers continue to rise, parents, doctors, and counselors search for reliable resources to better understand the issues teenagers with diabetes face every day. This essential guide explains the differences between type 1 and type 2 diabetes and provides diabetic teenagers with tips to help manage their condition. It's a useful guide for teens who don't have diabetes but who want to understand what their friends or siblings with the disease are going through. Thoughtful design, accessible language, fact boxes, and lists of online resources engage readers and encourage them to lead healthy and fulfilling lives.