on hallwoeen, one guy in my class brought cupcakes. everyone expet me had one. i felt left out so=ince during the time e handed them out, we were stuck in the classroom with time to socialize. i just sat there. then a few days later, my friend brought in cupcakes for her birthday. i had had enough of not allowed to have junk. i asked my friend if the cupcakes came from a boxed mix or was it homemade... she couldnt even tell me! i was thinking like how do you not know! and then i ate it even though it was way more carbs than i was supposed to have(i was on nph and it was snack time.)
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Now the hardest part is the school parties. My children go to a private school, where I teach. My husband and I send out a letter at the beginning of the year to all the parents. In this letter we ask that parents give us a heads up, if they are bringing a special treat to school for a birthday. We THOUGHT this would make last year easier, but unfortunately most parents did not call or email a "heads up". My 3rd grader understood that she just could not have the treats. Her teacher and I kept a stash of treats that had the carb count on it. My daughter in kindergarten, spent most kids birthdays in tears, even with her special treat mom brought. It is so difficult to watch your child cry and ask why she has to have diabetes.
Any suggestions on making the school experience easy???? Send them my way please!
Rachel
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Rachel, It sounds like your school issue is mostly that your need a warning about the treats? Of course a kindergartener can't be expected to see a surprise cupcake, figure out the carbs, divide by her insulin ratio, bolus, and join in!
I'm not a parent of a T1, but I work at a private school. My thoughts ... can you send out an email to the parents a few times a year, including before big holidays, reminding them about your daughters' needs? Maybe they forgot in the influx of beginning of the year paperwork? Also, my school has a policy that all food brought in has the nutritional info on it so that we can assess for allergens (and myself for carbs, lol). I've told parents that I'd immediately throw away anything sent in w/o this info (even though I never have!) and it increased the number who remembered (even though you always have those who won't follow through with anything you ask).
Good luck!
have your kid go out on halloween and get candy then the next day trade all the candy for a new toy or something do that instead of just candy
you could also let them go trick or treating, but as soon as they get home, have them dump all their candy on the table, and then you can go through and keep the laffy taffies, smarties, fun-sized candy bars, and dum-dums/tootsie roll pops because those are the easiest to calculate carbs on..
i would say roughly 2 laffy taffies are 15 grams of carbs, 2 candy bars are 30 gm, 4 rolls of smarties are 15 i think, and i am not sure on the lollipops, but i know that dum-dums are significantly less than the tootsie pops, which i think are 20ish a pop.
then i would suggest taking the candy and letting them have a certain amount a day, and let them ration that amount out how they want, haha.
that's what my parents always did, and it seemed to work pretty well! i am sure you can google carb counts on other candies if you aren't sure.
but i was diagnosed on october 26th, 1997, so i totally understand the whole halloween thing!
hahha and ironically, i am actually going to be with all of my diabetic friends on halloween..i did not even realize the irony in that until just now!
but i really do understand your concern. however, my parents never denied me anything, even on the holidays, or class parties, or birthday parties, or whatever.. we used to go by the "one slice of cake no icing, half a full sized cupcake with icing, or an entire full sized cupcake with no icing" rule when i was younger and still on shots, but i would just trade one of those out for something else in the day. i think that moderation is definitely the best route to go!
i hope that helped!(:
you could also let them go trick or treating, but as soon as they get home, have them dump all their candy on the table, and then you can go through and keep the laffy taffies, smarties, fun-sized candy bars, and dum-dums/tootsie roll pops because those are the easiest to calculate carbs on..
i would say roughly 2 laffy taffies are 15 grams of carbs, 2 candy bars are 30 gm, 4 rolls of smarties are 15 i think, and i am not sure on the lollipops, but i know that dum-dums are significantly less than the tootsie pops, which i think are 20ish a pop.
then i would suggest taking the candy and letting them have a certain amount a day, and let them ration that amount out how they want, haha.
that's what my parents always did, and it seemed to work pretty well! i am sure you can google carb counts on other candies if you aren't sure.
but i was diagnosed on october 26th, 1997, so i totally understand the whole halloween thing!
hahha and ironically, i am actually going to be with all of my diabetic friends on halloween..i did not even realize the irony in that until just now!
but i really do understand your concern. however, my parents never denied me anything, even on the holidays, or class parties, or birthday parties, or whatever.. we used to go by the "one slice of cake no icing, half a full sized cupcake with icing, or an entire full sized cupcake with no icing" rule when i was younger and still on shots, but i would just trade one of those out for something else in the day. i think that moderation is definitely the best route to go!
i hope that helped!(: