• Understand and change your negative thinking around diabetes
• Identify and stop feelings of guilt around your child's illness
• Understand how to manage and resolve feelings of guilt and shame
• Learn the importance of self-care and how to reduce stress
• Utilize coping skills to manage trauma, change and frustration around your child's diabetes
• Learn healthy coping strategies to deal with various issues
• Identify and process changes in how you function as a parent
• Build healthy communication skills with your family
• Learn how to respond in a proactive manner to your child’s emotional shifts
• Learn to say NO & YES to your child’s request
• Identify ways to advocate for your children's rights at school
• Food and insulin management training (idealistic versus realistic choices for your child)
• Learn how to design a flexible meal plan with your children
• Learn the impact of poor management of diabetes (short and long term)
• Coping with stress in the diabetic family

 

Parenting Children with Diabetes (Hardcover & e-Book)

If you are the parent of a child living with diabetes, life can be problematic, to say the least. My new book was designed to help parents manage the trials and tribulations of raising a child with diabetes. http://bit.ly/Parenting_CWD

 

Parenting Children with Diabetes, published by Rowman & Littlefield, offers parents a 360-degree view of what is happening to their child living with diabetes, providing unique tools, insight, and education to help parents and their children navigate diabetes management, communicate clearly and effectively, and live safely and healthfully.