The Grandparent Guide
When Diabetes Visits
For grandparents and extended family hosting a child with diabetes while the parents are away.
Inside The Grandparent Guide
- The full guide, read online as a book, always current as new issues land
- Six short videos to share before or during the trip, added after launch. Everyone who bought earlier gets each one, and the price goes to $50 once all six are in.
- An overview deck that walks the whole trip in one sitting, for the planning talk at the kitchen table.
- One-page team cards for how your travelers talk and work together: a before-we-leave huddle card, a who-does-what card, a card for when something goes wrong, and one card per issue.
- Printable checklists: packing, an emergency protocol, and a partner discussion guide.
- A 6x9 paperback for the bag, with the team cards, checklists and emergency protocol each on its own page. It comes after the online guide.
When the grandkids come to stay, you are the host, and the parents are a phone call away. You ask the parents what they do at home before the kids arrive, stock the house and know where everything lives, and learn what the beeping means. The guide walks you through a low at your house, feeding somebody else's kid, and the days you leave the house together.
You host a child whose parents usually run the diabetes, so the handoff has to be clear before the parents leave. The team cards cover who the grandchild tells, what the parents want to hear from you, and when to call them.
Every issue in this guide
The guide, online as a book or a printable PDF, in 8 issues:
- 1. You Are Not the Backup, You Are the Host
- 2. The Questions to Ask Before They Arrive
- 3. What to Stock, and Where to Keep It
- 4. The Beeping
- 5. A Low at Your House
- 6. Feeding Somebody Else's Kid
- 7. The Days You Leave the House
- 8. The Visit That Makes the Next One Easier
The guide follows one visit that goes well, from the questions you ask before they arrive through the first night of beeping, to the visit that makes the next one easier.
How it will work
- Sign in free and you'll hear the day it lands.
- On launch day, add it to your cart in the BTD Store and check out for $25.
- Open your access link and read it with everyone traveling, before you go.
BTD Vacation Time: Online Coaching built around your trip
Three months of online sessions with your trip as the syllabus: a planning session with everyone who is traveling, written trip notes your family can take along, a check-in while you are away, and a debrief once you are home. It starts at $8,000, and availability is extremely limited. Family-to-family coaching, never medical advice.
If you're hosting the grandkids and want help fitting it to your family, that's what BTD Vacation Time is for.
If your family wants Trapper on the trip itself, that is Diabetes Concierge: four days is $46,000 plus travel, inside the Diabetes Concierge range of $28,000 to $72,000 plus travel.
See BTD Vacation Time → Complete the intake form →Questions about a BTD Travel Guide or an order: Ask through the question form