Minisode #11: Let's Stop Saying: "Kid First, Diabetes Second"

Diabetes Connections | Type 1 Diabetes · Sep 3, 2020 · 1m

It didn't take long after my son was diagnosed for someone to tell us, "Kid first, diabetes second." Benny was diagnosed in 2006, but that phrase has been around a long time in the diabetes parenting community.

I get it. We shouldn't take away all the things that make childhood fun and special, because of a diagnoses of T1D. We also don't want diabetes to be the first thing people think about when they consider our children and we don't want diabetes to dictate every decision we make.

But the more I think about it, more I think that phrase misses the mark.

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