Hi, Teenagers push the boundaries in every area of life and teenagers with diabetes can be even more manipulative.  A fussy teenager can refuse to eat his dinner and then demand another kind of carbohydrate from that provided by his parent, "otherwise I will have a hypo and die!" Life can be very challenging, but then we were all teenagers once, so maybe this is pay back time? Mind you I didn't have diabetes until much later, so I never put my parents through this kind of test.