Most of the posts here are for parents of kids who have diabetes. My question has to do with how to deal with kids when a parent is diagnosed with diabetes.

I have a friend whose son has been acting up lately. He was never really a wild kid, but since she has been diagnosed he has become a real trial for her and her husband.

I think it has to do with her being diagnosed with a disease that can be very dangerous. He's a preteen and I'd guess doesn't really know many facts about diabetes. He might be reacting to myths that he hears from others kids. My friend is only now first starting to get a little more comfortable with the diagnosis. She was extremely upset at the diagnosis and let her family know that she was ill with a terrible disease. She knows I have had diabetes for decades, but as friends we never really discussed it, I tried to help calm her but it didn't help much after her diagnosis. I'm also not that close to her son, so I'm not the right person to connect to him.

Does anyone here know of some articles or magazines or websites that will help her son deal with her sickness? I hope soon she can teach him, but now she's trying to get used to it herself and isn't ready to help him understand diabetes yet.