Tip of the Week:

When your child has diabetes, you might feel that the only way to control things is to do everything yourself.  You might actually have better results by transitioning some responsibility to your child.  Here are some tips from  parents who have involved their child in the day-to-day diabetes responsibilities like carb counting and how they feel their children have “bought in.”  Find more like this in the HealthSims Type 1 Diabetes training course. 

My son knows how to count carbs for each meal.  He reads the nutrition label and knows where to find the serving size for the carbs.  He also knows his limit of carbs for each meal.  If you don’t stick to the diet planned, you will not be able to get your diabetes under control! - Melissa, mother of a 9 year old with diabetes

We taught our son how to read the food labels as soon as he was able to read.  We had him look at the “Total Carbs” section and the “Sugars” section on the label.  He knew he could not eat foods where the sugars were more than half of the total carbs for snacks – especially at bedtime.  We also taught him the same process for selecting a breakfast cereal.  They should be low in “Sugars” compared to “Total Carbs.” - Dana mother of a child diagnosed at age 3

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