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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your DC is not ready for this trip. It’s not reasonable or even viable for a host family or a chaperone to remind him to take medicine. If he can’t, via an alarm, then he’s not ready for this. [/quote]

OP here - interesting, would you say the same thing about a child with an EpiPen or diabetes? 
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I would say the same about a child with diabetes if they weren’t capable of doing any of their own care or management. But for an 11 year old with diabetes, that isn’t an option. They will know how to check their glucose levels and what to do if they are low and alarms will ring to remind them to act. At middle age, you should be the back up plan and working on him taking a role in his own health and management. [/quote]

ADHD medication is a controlled substance that can be abused, and not recommended to be in the hands of impulsive and forgetful children.[/quote]

Insulin can kill. At what age will you start to have your child involved in taking their own meds? We have two kids with adhd meds, including the one who is diabetic. You can think we are the worlds worst parents for allowing our kids to be involved in their own health care and to let them have phones / watches to help them manage their health but they are actually more capable than you think.[/quote]

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