Type 2 Diabetes in Kids

Cooking Up Fun for Kids with Diabetes. Food should be fun, no matter how old you are. But if you're a kid with diabetes, sometimes food seems more like medicine, eating certain foods at certain times in certain amounts. Cooking Up Fun for Kids with Diabetes will help bring back the fun in food with simple, healthy recipes and activities that kids can make by themselves or with family members. (Click here to learn more or buy this book.)

Smart Pumping for People with Diabetes. When it's time to get beyond the basics of insulin pumps, you're ready for Smart Pumping. 182 fact-packed pages of helpful information and tips, including: the pro and cons of pumping; how the pump can help hypoglycemia and gastroparesis; basal and bolus basics; what to do with your pump when you're playing sports; pump mechanics, infusion sites, carb ratios, and much more. (Click here to learn more or buy this book.)

A Field Guide to Type 1 Diabetes: The Essential Resource from the Diabetes Experts. In true field guide fashion, this book boils down the vital information about type 1 diabetes into short sections and checklists of what you need, what you do, and what to take with you. The world of diabetes care is almost constantly changing through medical research, and there are new tools to help you succeed on your journey. Let this book be your companion and your guide. (Click here to learn more or buy this book.)

Getting the Most Out of Diabetes Camp. Are you thinking of going (or sending your child) to diabetes summer camp this year? Then this is the book for you! Getting the Most Out of Diabetes Camp will help you decide whether camp is right for you and figure out how to make the most of it for parents & children.  Your all-in-one guide comes with a list of diabetes camps across the country and a sample application packet. (Click here to learn more or buy this book.)

Putting Your Diabetes On the Pump, by Francine Kaufman, MD, Mary J. Halverson, BS, MSN, and Jessica Lehry. With a pump, you can eat when you want, what you want, and still have fewer swings in blood sugar. Sound good? Well, you can use a pump at any age! This book may be little, but it's packed with information that can help you skate around common problems, figure out puzzling highs and lows, and truly succeed at putting your diabetes on the pump. (Click here to learn more or buy this book.)

Managing Diabetic Hypoglycemia is a new video about managing and preventing low blood sugar. Practical advice for parents, grandparents, teachers, and everyone with diabetes! Featuring H. Peter Chase, MD, American Diabetes Association Outstanding Physician Clinician in Diabetes (2001). Dr. Chase is a professor of pediatrics at the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes, University of Colorado Health Services Center. (Click here to learn more or buy this video.)

Real Life Parenting of Kids with Diabetes, by Virginia Nasmyth Loy. This down-to-earth guide will give you all the information you need to know about raising a child with diabetes. There are tips and suggestions for developing a testing and medication routine, organizing a play group, finding a doctor, making sure they get the exercise they need, preparing for sports & activities, traveling with diabetes, providing emotional support, and much more. Most importantly, this informative guide teaches the importance of staying positive in the face of adversity and making sure your kids stay positive as well. Diabetes shouldn't keep your child from living the life they want to live. (Click here to learn more or  buy this book.)

Getting a Grip on Diabetes: Quick Tips & Techniques for Kids and Teens, by Spike Nasmyth Loy and Bo Nasmyth Loy.  Brothers Spike and Bo Loy know what it's like to grow up with diabetes-- both have lived with it for more than ten years. Spike and Bo's tips and techniques will help you go safely through elementary school, high school and college; visit friends; participate in sports and school activities; go camping; drive; go to parties; or do just about anything you can imagine. This book also includes special "What the doc says" comments in every section. (Click here to learn more or buy this book.)

Guide to Raising a Child with Diabetes, 2nd Edition. Guide to Raising a Child with Diabetes, 2nd Edition, features the latest advances in diabetes care-- with lots of problem-solving examples and easy-to-read tables throughout. You'll learn how to help your child adjust insulin levels to allow for foods kids like to eat, have a busy schedule and still feel healthy and strong, negotiate the twists and turns of being "different, and accept the physical and emotional challenges that life has to offer. (Click here to learn more or buy this book.)

Sweet Kids: How to Balance Diabetes Control & Good Nutrition with Family Peace (Second Edition), by Betty Page Brackenridge, MS, RD, CDE & Richard R. Rubin, PhD, CDE. Juggling food, exercise, and insulin can be the most demanding issue in the life of a child with diabetes and her parents-- with new challenges every day. This book can help yoiu with countless decisions about the newest insulin regimens and meal planning decisions-- from what to fix for a toddler's breakfast to preparing your teenager to care for his diabetes wisely when away from home. (Click here to learn more or buy this book.)

The Ten Keys to Helping Your Child Grow Up with Diabetes, by Tim Wysocki, PhD. Raising children is hard enough without the extra burdens imposed by diabetes. Here's help for parents who face the problems, feelings, and situations that can accompany managing the disease. You'll learn about common emotional pitfalls for families of children with diabetes, effective family communication skills, skills and steps that lead to independence, who to communicate with about diabetes and how, educating classmates and teachers about diabetes, and much more. (Click here to learn more or buy this book.)

The Dinosaur Tamer and Other Stories for Children with Diabetes, by Marcia Levine Mazur, Peter Banks, and Andrew Keegan. A collection of 25 stories that will entertain, enlighten, and ease your child's frustrations about having diabetes. Each tale warmly evaporates the fear of insulin injections, blood checks, being "different," and all the other not-so-fun parts of having diabetes. A must-have for small children, bedtime stories, and anyone looking for gentle reassurance. (Click here to learn more or buy this book.)

Does Your Family Have a Free Wizdom Kit?

Wizdom is a kit of information and education for families of kids with diabetes, free from the American Diabetes Association. Each kit contains two books-- one for kids and one just for parents-- each containing everything you need to know to get started on the road to good diabetes management.  Click here for more information or to download the Wizdom books now. To get a free kit for your family, just send an e-mail to Wizdom@diabetes.org or call us at 1-800-DIABETES (342-2383).