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

It is so refreshing to read a book that speaks for the children instead of another doctor or professor's medical perspective. It makes a reader understand how pervasive this disease is and how every action, response, or comment can affect the child.

This book was very informative and very encouraging for me as a parent with a newly diagnosed 18 month old child with diabetes. Not only did the author address the concerns of children with diabetes, she also zeroed in on some of my own fears, concerns and misunderstandings involving diabetes and how it affects the day-to-day activites in my family. I would recommend this book to anyone feeling overwhelmed and frightened with a newly diagnosed child with diabetes.

A wonderful combination of accurate info, humor, and sharp insight into what it's like to be a child with diabetes. Parents will see themselves somewhere in this book (if not everywhere!). Parents get so caught up in the medical end of things - numbers, dosages, shots, carbs - this book really helps you see things from your child's point of view. There are helpful suggestions, often delivered with a description of a real-life situation the author has experienced, to get you thru rough spots. A great book!

I could not put this book down! I was sad when I was finished reading it. It's so easy as a parent of a child with diabetes to lose focus on the emotional aspect of diabetes. We put so much time and effort into controlling it and trying to help our children deal with it. Reading this really helped me see diabetes through a childs eyes. Alicia clearly states some of the things we do as parents that really annoy our children, things that our children probably do feel but would never tell us. I really enjoyed this book and I hope a lot more parents read it.

This book is what every parent should get for their child with diabetes. It is a guide for children, written by someone diagnosed at age 11, it describes the emotions children go through after their diagnosis, why it is so important to go on living a normal life, and dealing with the pressures of doctors, relatives and friends. It even includes a chapter on how parents can give children independence as they grow up through adolescence. Written by someone who has been there, it is a unique book that offers much. Five stars!