32: When You’re Nervous to Send Your T1D on a Sleepover

Sweet Talk for Parents of Kids with Type One Diabetes

Sending our T1D kids to school can be hard, but we know we have to find a way — after all, they need to be there and we know that the school needs to help us make that happen. It can feel really different, though, when we need to lean into our community to ask friends to take care of our type 1 kiddos for something like a sleepover. Sure, our kids deserve that social interaction, but how do we muster up the courage to ask for help?

In this episode, fellow T1D parent Annie and I think through the challenges of how to make it comfortable for you to send your kid to that sleepover.

Some highlights:

• Before you ask your T1D kid to manage themselves at a sleepover, it’s important to consider what’s developmentally appropriate for them.
• Remember that it’s so good for our kids — with and without type 1 — to feel like they are part of a broader community and that they can get help and support from more than just us, their parents. After all, we’d like other parents and kids to feel comfortable turning to us in their times of need.
• Annie and I talk through different ways that we can think about overcoming the discomfort of asking for help from our friends to help manage our type 1 child.
• The goal is to ask very specifically for what we need to feel safe so when we send our children on that sleepover that we don’t feel too anxious when they are there.

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