3 year old diagnosed 4 months after me. A few questions.

I was recently diagnosed with T2 (6 feet 180lbs roughly 30). They think it’s a genetic mutation that caused it as my mom is super healthy and also T2. Currently metformin isn’t doing much to my blood gluclose and it seems to hover around 160 no matter what. (Looking for a new endo who will dig a lil deeper with me tj what’s going on)

My 3 year old started to show the same signs I was, frequent bathroom use, constant thirst etc. we had actually had some blood work done because we thought he was lactose and his bg was 160ish. Doctors want us to keep doing random bg tests until it’s over 200 and then bring him in and start the whole process.

  1. Does this seem right? Trying to see if his doctor is not being pro active enough. 2. Any tips on finger pricks for such a small kid. He hates it and hides whenever the cabinet where the bg monitor is kept. Looking for help on this. 3. Anyone have any experience with parent and child both being diabetic on how you explain it to them, how you work this to the advantage for helping the kid etc?