Preventing daytime accidents
My son has always wet the bed and had been checked for medical conditions a few times.
Until he was 5, I was told not to worry and he will out grow it and will also outgrow daytime accidents.
He stopped messing at night when he was 4 and during the day about the same time.
He is now 8 and still wets the bed. My doctor said diapers will only make him lazy and won't worry about using the toilet at night so suggested just a rubber sheet on his bed. He said this would make my son associate wetting with being uncomfortable so he should eventually get out of bed and use toilet instead of peeing in bed.
On day time wetting, he does this about 4 or 5 times a week. It used to be only while at school and I just packed spare undies in his bag and told him to change if he needed to. More recently, it has become more frequent but I found that if I punished him every time he came home from school with wet pants or with wet pants in his bag (a smack, no dinner, no pocket money or similar), I seem to have scared him into being dry at school. He now only wets his pant at home from time to time but almost never at school any more.
He must be using the toilet at school now instead of just being lazy and wetting his pants so should I start punishing him when not at school when he has accidents while awake so he stops daytime wetting completely?
Is it ok to scare a kid into being dry?
Every time he wets his bed, his punishment is he must change his own bed and put clothes and sheets in wash and knows never to wake me up in the middle of the night if he wakes up wet. He doesn't seem to mind this - I think he should be responsible for his own messes - I shouldn't have to clean up after him just cause he's being lazy!
Any comments? Am I doing the wrong thing? Everyone has different ideas but I trust the doctor, so I am just doing what he suggested.
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