Normalizes the unhealthy emotional responses associated with raising a child with chronic illness

Offers a vision for navigating the emotional stress of raising a child with chronic illness with greater clarity and hopeAddresses, through story and self-reflection questions, the particular demands placed on caregivers of a child with type 1 diabetesCultivates healthy relationships between parents and children with a chronic illnessProvides a vision of parenting where fatigue, fear, and anger are replaced with grace, courage, and loveEmpowers parents to become wiser, more patient and loving, not despite their child's chronic disease but because of itEpidemiologic studies suggest as many as 1 out of 4 children in the U.S., or 15 to 18 million children ages 17 and younger, suffer from a chronic health problem. In the U.S. alone, 20,000 children are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes annually and more than 200,000 children live with type 1 diabetesAddresses the need for the development of interventions to reduce parenting stress among pediatric chronic illness populations as identified in a 2013 systematic review of ninety-six peer-reviewed studies in twelve countries between 1980 and 2012