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A parent’s action plan for stopping the epidemic of type 2 diabetes in children.

Diabetes-Free Kids is the first book to address the burgeoning epidemic of type 2 diabetes among children and to provide parents with an action plan for halting it. Exercise physiologist Sheri Colberg and nutritionist Mary Friesz lay out a clear plan for diet and exercise that will get even the pickiest eaters to enjoy healthier yet satisfying meals and snacks, and will motivate the most sedentary children to start moving.

Diabetes-Free Kids: A Take-Charge Plan for Preventing and Treating Type-2 Diabetes in Children

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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

McAuliffe teaches parents important concepts like not blaming yourself if your child has diabetes, accepting that your child will have diabetes forever, not transmitting a negative attitude, and letting your child be a “normal” kid. She also teaches strategies for dealing with daily life, such as including siblings in diabetes education and emergency training, educating your child’s teacher and classmates, and giving siblings without diabetes some extra attention. McAuliffe gives no medical advice–plenty of other books do that. She shares from her heart and experience what it was like being a kid with diabetes and how parents can make it easier or more difficult. –Joan Price

Growing Up with Diabetes: What Children Want Their Parents to Know

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There are many books about how to manage diabetes, but this is the first to explain how exactly a child feels about growing up with diabetes and all that goes with it. Using the first hand experience of the author and other young interviewees at various stages of childhood, this book gives a unique insight into the emotional aspects of learning to deal with diabetes, and gives parents the opportunity to better understand diabetes from the child’s point of view.

Diabetes Through the Looking Glass: A Book for Parents of Children with Diabetes

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This book has been designed to help children with diabetes appreciate the importance of taking their insulin injections and being aware of what they eat. Although parents are of course primarily responsible for the care of their child s diabetes, it is important that the children themselves are aware that they too must take some responsibility. This book encourages children to follow the instructions given to them by their doctors and parents, to eat healthily, and to see their insulin injections as something brave that they do, that other children cannot! Instead of viewing diabetes and their daily injections as something negative, the story encourages them to think of it as something that sets them apart from their peers in a positive way.

The Bravest Girl in School-This book has been designed to help young children with diabetes to appreciate the importance of taking their insulin injections and being aware of what they eat.

• ISBN13: 9780945448587
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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Twenty-five fictional stories that will entertain, enlighten, and ease a child’s frustration about having diabetes.

The Dinosaur Tamer : And Other Stories for Children with Diabetes

• ISBN13: 9781598692464
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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As a parent of a child diagnosed with diabetes, you are faced with overwhelming, and sometimes frightening, questions like: Will my child be able to eat sweets again? How will I ever be able to let them go out on their own? What is the newest technology and how can it help my child? Is a cure really on the horizon? The Everything Parent’s Guide to Children with Juvenile Diabetes helps you cope with the challenges of helping your children live happy, healthy lives while controlling the disease. This reassuring, easy-to-use guide features advice on:

• Adjusting to life with diabetes
• Helping your children take control of their health
• Monitoring diet and insulin levels
• Handling emergencies
• Finding support for you and your children

The Everything Parent’s Guide To Children With Juvenile Diabetes: Reassuring Advice for Managing Symptoms and Raising a Happy, Healthy Child