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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FindingNemo" data-source="post: 220619" data-attributes="member: 13021">Hi, not been around for a long time,but I hope some of you may be able to give me some practical advice?My son was diagnosed type 1 in June, just before his 9th birthday.  He has been managing very well, highlighted by his first post diagnoses of 7.3 (baseline was 13.something), so good drop in under 4 months.  His day to day contril is not as good as we would like it to be, mostly because like most 9 year old boys, his activity level varies hugely, he can spend a day at school, followed by chilling out at home, or every waking hour on his blades, skateboard, bike etc!I think because I have been so non compliant myself, I am quite wary of being too rigid with hime as well, as I don't want him to rebel because he is constant being told he can't have, not that I let him have what he wants when he wants and he is generally sensible and happy to check his BG beofore deciding what snack he wants/needs and we don't use sweets as hypo treatment, simply as a 'treat' when appropriate and not too often, just as before diagnoses and no different from our daughter.He had his check up appointment today and it has been discussed and agreed with my son that a qds regime may give us more flexibility to plan ahead and react to his varying activity levels and means that when on the odd occasion we do go out for meals, the timings don't have to be as specific and he can choose a pudding he wants, rather than always going for the sensible option, basic normailty really.A dsn is doing a home visit a week next Friday to get him started up, but i was thinking tht we would start CHO counting his meals and snacks from now, to give him some idea of the concept.  On the practical front, is there anything else we should/ could be doing? We have some literature frm the clinic, but want to make this transistion as easy as possible for him, as he as a lot of other stuff going on at the moment.Many thanks in advance.</blockquote>

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