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[helli]

Maybe Halle Berry was a bad example but my point remains - for a young newly diagnosed girl with Type 1, role modes could be important to show that her diagnosis is not the end of her aspirations.

 

[pm133]

Let’s call what it is compared to a “normal” life it is terrible and I doubt anyone would tell a 7 year old that, I don’t need to look at celebs for inspiration, I went to university, I played competitive rugby for 8 years and I run a successful world wide engineering business supporting aerospace manufacturing companies such as Airbus, Boeing and more. people can accept this disease and get on with life or bury their heads in the sand, yes sometimes it’s hard to deal with but mostly it’s just a annoying distraction

I'm with you here. Adults should not be ***** footing around stuff like this. To a 7 year old, having type 1 is going to feel like the end of the world and it's important for grown ups to realise that this is how they'll view it. The kid needs to know that the parent absolutely gets how horrific this is for her. It's a fine balance but kids are not stupid. They'll spot happy clapping a mile away and it can easily come across as fakery. That can do far more damage to the kid than using certain words and phrases. In all my years as a parent, I never sugar coated anything with my kids. It wasn't worth the risk of leaving them feeling that their concerns weren't being recognised.

As for celebrities, Iike them for their acting or singing ability but I would look to them for inspiration on anything else.

 

[pm133]

Maybe Halle Berry was a bad example but my point remains - for a young newly diagnosed girl with Type 1, role modes could be important to show that her diagnosis is not the end of her aspirations.

I would expect that, beyond the pain and hassle of injections, one of the biggest worries this girl will have is being seen to be different amongst her friends and others at school. At 7 years old, she's probably not thinking too much about longer term aspirations. She'll be frantic about how others will judge and treat her if they find out.

 

[helli]

frantic about how others will judge and treat her if they find out.

And the more positive view she has of diabetes, the easier it will be to deal with others.

We are all different - as adults and as children. The way we cope, the way we manage and the way we deal with others.
One of the lovely things about this forum is we can provide different suggestions to @MummyC to help her daughter

 

[trophywench]

Been laughing at loud at this thread - sorry! Who on earth would imagine someone as ancient as Halle Berry could be a role model to a 7 yo girl? At 7, your parents are quite possible only mid 20s (one of our daughters was 22 - don't ask!) and hence anyone that old is pretty ancient whoever they happen to be.

If Princess Charlotte got it, or indeed Elsa from Ice Age, then that could be more like it!

 

[Bruce Stephens]

Who on earth would imagine someone as ancient as Halle Berry could be a role model to a 7 yo girl?

So probably not Theresa May either...

 

[Paulbreen]

Looks like I opened a can of worms there, ah well live and let live everyone

 

[Bruce Stephens]

Looks like I opened a can of worms there, ah well live and let live everyone

I don't think so!

For what little it's worth, I was diagnosed when I was 15 (so a child, just), and it never occurred to me that it might limit what I might do. It perhaps should have (since some things are extremely tricky if not impossible (a career in deep sea diving, astronaut, etc.)).

And nowadays the technology is so much better, so with any luck in a few years we'll all have closed loops and will just be feeding them now and again.

 

[pm133]

And the more positive view she has of diabetes, the easier it will be to deal with others.

Which is why nobody on here is suggesting using that phrase to her daughter.

 

[pm133]

Been laughing at loud at this thread - sorry! Who on earth would imagine someone as ancient as Halle Berry could be a role model to a 7 yo girl? At 7, your parents are quite possible only mid 20s (one of our daughters was 22 - don't ask!) and hence anyone that old is pretty ancient whoever they happen to be.

If Princess Charlotte got it, or indeed Elsa from Ice Age, then that could be more like it!

Halle Berry is probably even older than the grandparents of a 7 year old :-D

 

[Paulbreen]

I don't think so!

For what little it's worth, I was diagnosed when I was 15 (so a child, just), and it never occurred to me that it might limit what I might do. It perhaps should have (since some things are extremely tricky if not impossible (a career in deep sea diving, astronaut, etc.)).

And nowadays the technology is so much better, so with any luck in a few years we'll all have closed loops and will just be feeding them now and again.

I have managed 47 years with it and like you Bruce it never held me back, tech has changed everything more so in the last 5 years and like you say maybe 5 more and we’ll all be closed loop, I can remember getting insulin injections from a glass syringe and boiling them in a kettle back in the day... ahh the good old days lol