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{Diabetes At School} Building a Working Relationship With School

Each day this week I have the privilege of sharing guests posts from terrific D-Moms, D-Dads, and D-Kids, who are talking back-to-school. This post was originally published August 12. 2011.

Today Scott Benner shares what he thinks are the keys to building a good relationship with the personnel at school. Scott is a strong voice in the d-blogging community. His posts are always thoughtful and provide great information. He is one of the few D-Dads sharing his story of raising a child with diabet...

{Diabetes at School} Glucagon Tips

School is going to be here before we know it (darn!) and parents are already thinking about sending their child with diabetes to school. If you are new to diabetes, your child is going to school for the first time, or you are a seasoned pro, join me in the coming weeks as I share some posts from the archives as well as new content.

Please remember that I never give medical advice. Ask your endocrinologist or pediatrician for advice about your own child. Make your own informed decisions for you...

{Diabetes at School} Low Blood Sugar Classroom Kits

School is going to be here before we know it (darn!) and parents are already thinking about sending their child with diabetes to school. If you are new to diabetes, your child is going to school for the first time, or you are a seasoned pro, join me in the coming weeks as I share some posts from the archives as well as new content. Today I’ve got a new one for you.

Please remember that I never give medical advice. Ask your endocrinologist or pediatrician for advice about your own child. Make y...

{Diabetes at School} A Victory For D-Families In California

School is going to be here before we know it (darn!) and parents are already thinking about sending their child with diabetes to school. If you are new to diabetes, your child is going to school for the first time, or you are a seasoned pro, join me in the coming weeks as I share some posts from the archives as well as new content.

Please remember that I never give medical advice. Ask your endocrinologist or pediatrician for advice about your own child. Make your own informed decisions for you...

{Diabetes at School} Glucagon Training

School is going to be here before we know it (darn!) and parents are already thinking about sending their child with diabetes to school. If you are new to diabetes, your child is going to school for the first time, or you are a seasoned pro, join me in the coming weeks as I share some posts from the archives as well as new content.

Please remember that I never give medical advice. Ask your endocrinologist or pediatrician for advice about your own child. Make your own informed decisions for you...

{Diabetes at School} Following Protocols at School

School is going to be here before we know it (darn!) and parents are already thinking about sending their child with diabetes to school. If you are new to diabetes, your child is going to school for the first time, or you are a seasoned pro, join me in the coming weeks as I share some posts from the archives as well as new content.

Please remember that I never give medical advice. Ask your endocrinologist or pediatrician for advice about your own child. Make your own informed decisions for you...

{YouTube Tuesday} Believe

This new video from JDRF is pretty cool!

Watch JDRF’s video “Believe”:



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What did you think? Much better than a smoke monster; am I right?

And Another Thing…

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{YouTube Tuesday} Believe is a post from: D-Mom Blog

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and does not constitute medical advice. Please read the disclaimer, discl...

{Diabetes at School} 504 Plans

School is going to be here before we know it (darn!) and parents are already thinking about sending their child with diabetes to school. If you are new to diabetes, your child is going to school for the first time, or you are a seasoned pro, join me in the coming weeks as I share some posts from the archives as well as new content.

Please remember that I never give medical advice. Ask your endocrinologist or pediatrician for advice about your own child. Make your own informed decisions for you...

{Food} Carb Counting…With Google?!

I have several tricks up my sleeve when it comes to carb counting. I love the CalorieKing iPhone app. I have lists at home. I frequent the websites of restaurants. And I’m quite good at SWAGging*.

But my friend Manny Hernandez shared a cool trick that I didn’t know of: Google.

You Google search any food name followed by “carbohydrates” and most of the time, the search result will be the nutrition information. I say most of the time because as I was playing around there were a few items that did...

{YouTube Tuesday} Not OUR Kids

A parent on Facebook linked to this video. She was upset, as were many of the parents who commented. I clicked over expecting to be irritated, but I had quite the opposite reaction.

Not My Kids Video:



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From the video description on YouTube: “This TV campaign produced by the California Department of Public Health’s, Network for a Healthy California, is designed to reach Latino families in California and encourages parents to make healthy...