| Is this something new or was I just not trained properly when I was a child diabetic? I've never gotten up in the middle of the night to check my sugar unless I was feeling bad. Are we keeping kids under such tught control that we are causing them to have too many hypos? I wonder if all the problems that diabetic children are having with seizures these days could be attributed to the tighter control during their hormonaly imbalanced growing years? I played sports all through my childhood and never really had a problem with going too low.
However, to answer the question. A child that is able to undertand instructions and the consequences of not doing something, is never too young to begin to take control of their own health and the decisions that come with it.
__________________ The only way to manage diabetes is to CURE it... Diabetes since December, 1983 Meds: Humalog/Pump since 1998, Synthroid 88mcg, Zetia 10mg, Altace 10mg, Prevacid 30mg, Benfotiamine 600mg, 1-a-day multivitamin, Aspirin 325 mg, Garlic-geltab 4,000mg, methylcel. fiber therapy 2,000mg(for cholesterol) So, what's in your lunchbox? 
Funding JDRF to get rid of diabetes is like funding the Mafia to get rid of organized crime
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