My husband and I handle our daughter's diabetes completely differently — he wants to give her as much normal teenage freedom as possible while I'm the one tracking her blood sugar and packing emergency supplies and lying awake wondering if she checked her levels at the sleepover. We've never actually talked about what we're each afraid of, but I can feel us pulling in opposite directions and I think she can too.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two parents are unconsciously splitting into 'protector' and 'normalizer' roles without examining the fears driving each approach.
“Where Are You with Parenting a child with chronic illness?”
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