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Hi all,
I know the topic of this post seems a little bit random but let me explain. My wife is T1 and has been since she was 4. When she was at school none of the kids or teachers seemed to understand what diabetes was and from what ive read this seems to be still the case in a lot of schools.
In my honest opinion education is the best solution to help diabetic kids fit in and to help their friends and teachers understand that diabetes is a fact of life not a disability that people should avoid.
I have also spoken to my daughter’s nursery to see what their understanding is about diabetes, the answer I got was far from satisfying they pretty much said "well if we get a diabetic child we will look in to telling the other children what it’s about, until then we don’t"
To be honest this terrified me. No wonder young diabetics find it so hard to deal with.
I have started writing a kids story book to pretty much go over what diabetes is what some of the common symptoms are to be diagnosed I’m also going to go in to what hypos and hypers are and what good diets mean for a diabetic.
I’m slightly stuck at the moment now with not having and recent experience of diagnosis especially with kids.
It would be helpful if I could get some real life examples of what happened when children have been taken to the docs and have been first diagnosed.
Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.
I will also be self publishing this book.
(This was originally posted in the discussion forum but this section was more appropriate)
I know the topic of this post seems a little bit random but let me explain. My wife is T1 and has been since she was 4. When she was at school none of the kids or teachers seemed to understand what diabetes was and from what ive read this seems to be still the case in a lot of schools.
In my honest opinion education is the best solution to help diabetic kids fit in and to help their friends and teachers understand that diabetes is a fact of life not a disability that people should avoid.
I have also spoken to my daughter’s nursery to see what their understanding is about diabetes, the answer I got was far from satisfying they pretty much said "well if we get a diabetic child we will look in to telling the other children what it’s about, until then we don’t"
To be honest this terrified me. No wonder young diabetics find it so hard to deal with.
I have started writing a kids story book to pretty much go over what diabetes is what some of the common symptoms are to be diagnosed I’m also going to go in to what hypos and hypers are and what good diets mean for a diabetic.
I’m slightly stuck at the moment now with not having and recent experience of diagnosis especially with kids.
It would be helpful if I could get some real life examples of what happened when children have been taken to the docs and have been first diagnosed.
Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.
I will also be self publishing this book.
(This was originally posted in the discussion forum but this section was more appropriate)