Bedwetting Tips!
- Try to stay as calm as possible and do not let your own distress reflect on your child. Yelling will only make your child more nervous and frustrated with himself because he can’t really control the bedwetting.
- Get help. Don’t be shy and don’t look the other way.
- Be convinced and convince your child that bedwetting is a medical condition that will go away with the right treatment, and that he shouldn’t feel guilty about it.
- Limit liquid intake to two hours before bedtime.
- Tell your child to go to the toilet right before bedtime.
- Make an extra effort to take your sleeping child to the toilet in the middle of the night and another time closer to dawn. This way you can minimize the occurrence of bedwetting.
- Never expose your child’s embarrassing problem in front of others. Try to keep this issue hidden – even from his own siblings if possible!
- Never hold bedwetting against your child or threaten to expose him. You will lose on all fronts. Your child won’t get better and you would’ve lost his trust for good! Children are very sensitive.
- Cover the mattress with plastic padded sheets to keep it from getting wet.
- Be patient. This problem, if treated, should not stay with your child beyond the age of
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