You have problem solved, separated out party from diabetes, and given your child a way to cope successfully with a situation which will come up many times in his or her life, and no one had to dig in their heals. Again, use humor appropriate for your child's age to take the edge off their worries and concerns about situations. They'll need to learn to do that for themselves. I can still remember making jokes with my daughter about why no one stopped me from injecting myself at a large airport when the headline in the paper that day was about drugs. That giggle got me through my first long distance flight as a diabetic.
Teenagers are a problem into themselves.
I know that given what I know now, my teen years would be easier, but no way would I go back. With no major risk factors other than a family, school, and society at large, I had to form a more cohesive identity, become more independent, deal with a body out of control, and clone the most popular girls in the school while trying to keep my grades up so that the college of my dreams would accept my application. Try doing that taking your blood glucose level four time a day and looking out for hypoglycemic episodes because you are in tight control. To adequately describe this process and give some suggestion, tune in next month, same place. The unbaked dough will keep in the freezer for a month.