My thoughts about this vary a lot based on how long this kid has been diagnosed with diabetes - obviously, it makes sense to be a bit more careful in the first couple of months than in year five.
We have a friend whose middle child was diagnosed with diabetes in late elementary and one thing the mom really did struggle with was letting her kid have age-appropriate freedoms - like sleepovers. She started with very trusted people and worked her way up from there.
But what she absolutely was very careful not to do is let the younger kid have freedoms the older kid was denied. If you don't feel safe letting the older kid go to sleepovers, make an arbitrary rule of no sleepovers so at least it doesn't look like you're favoring one over the other.
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We have a friend whose middle child was diagnosed with diabetes in late elementary and one thing the mom really did struggle with was letting her kid have age-appropriate freedoms - like sleepovers. She started with very trusted people and worked her way up from there.
But what she absolutely was very careful not to do is let the younger kid have freedoms the older kid was denied. If you don't feel safe letting the older kid go to sleepovers, make an arbitrary rule of no sleepovers so at least it doesn't look like you're favoring one over the other.