When Youre a Parent With Diabetes or New Light on Alcoholism

When You're a Parent With Diabetes: A Real Life Guide to Staying Healthy While Raising a Family

Author: Kathryn Gregorio Palmer

Finding the time and energy to maintain a healthy diet and exercise program is a challenge for any parent–but it can be a matter of life and death for parents with diabetes. Diabetes in pregnancy, if poorly controlled, can increase the risk of miscarriage, birth defects, and prematurity. Mood swings and personality changes during a parent’s spells of low blood sugar can frighten young children. And even on good days, it can be difficult for a parent to remember to check their glucose levels in the haste of getting the kids off to school.

From the psychological to the medical to the purely practical, Kathryn Gregorio Palmer guides parents with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes through the ups and downs of staying healthy while raising a family. Helpful for adoptive and stepparents as well as moms and dads, the book

answers questions such as:

• What are the risks of being pregnant with diabetes?

• Will I have the energy to handle a rambunctious child?

• Where can I hide my juice boxes so the kids don’t accidentally drink them all?

A mother of two, Palmer blends her own experience with expert advice and tips from other parents to create a compassionate and useful handbook that parents with diabetes will find indispensable.

Table of Contents:

Table of Contents:

Foreword by Florence M. Brown, MD

Preface by Jane K. Dickinson, RN, PhD, CDE

Introduction

Chapter 1: Preparing for Parenthood

Chapter 2: Becoming a Parent

Chapter 3: The First Year of Parenthood

Chapter 4: The Preschool Years

Chapter 5: The School Years and Beyond

Chapter 6: At Any Age

Chapter 7: Keeping Your Eye on the Prize

Recommended Resources

Interesting textbook: This Must Be Hell or Complete Guide to Everyday Risks in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding

New Light on Alcoholism: God, Sam Shoemaker, and A.A. (Second Edition)

Author: Dick B

A comprehensive history and analysis of the all-but-forgotten specific contributions to A.A. spiritual principles and practices by New York's famous Episcopal preacher, the Rev. Dr. Samuel M. Shoemaker, Jr.--dubbed by Bill W. a "co-founder" of Alcoholics Anonymous and credited by Bill as the well-spring of A.A.'s spiritual recovery ideas.

This title is particularly vital to an understanding of A.A.'s spiritual program of recovery. In the earliest days of A.A., Bill Wilson defined spirituality as dependence upon our Creator. And this is precisely what the pioneers did to recover. They prayed to God, using the Lord's Prayer in Matthew, Chapter 6. They sought God first, following the teachings in Matthew 6:33. They accepted the necessity for doing the will of God, as mandated in Matthew 6:10 and Matthew 7:23. And there was no more dedicated Bible teacher for Bill Wilson and for other AAs through his books than the Rev. Samuel M. Shoemaker, Jr., rector of Calvary Episcopal Church in New York. You can find Shoemaker language in the Twelve Steps of A.A. You can find Shoemaker language in A.A.'s Big Book. You can hear it in the meetings. Yet few know that it came from Shoemaker. This book shows the specific items A.A. borrowed, covers the books and teachings of Sam, describes in detail the relationship between Bill Wilson and Sam, and shows the direct impact that Sam had on A.A. as he spoke at two of its International Conventions, wrote for its Grapevine, and kept in regular touch with Wilson from the very first of Bill's sobriety. It is not without accuracy that Bill called Sam a "co-founder" of A.A. and a wellspring of its ideas. They were close friends and mutually respected each other. To the extent that Bill actually asked Sam Shoemaker to write the Twelve Steps. Thus if you wish to understand A.A. talk, ideas, and literature, you will profit from reading this much-revised book about Sam and A.A. It is the up-dated product of 9 years of extensive research.

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Study the impact of Sam Shoemaker on the early years of AA-...a great communicator, an excellent preacher, a talented counselor - loved & respected by all.