The article Alternative Therapies for Bed wetting Children offers resources on several of these therapies, including; chiropractic care, hypnotherapy, acupuncture and homeopathy. These therapies can be used in conjunction with Drynites Pyjama Pants, and will sometimes reduce the frequency and severity of your child’s bed wetting.
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Wetting The Bed Articles
Wetting the bed is something that affects up 20 percent of all kids under the age of 5 years, most of the time it is an involuntary act on the part of your child. Doctors don’t know for sure what causes it or what makes it stop, but it is normally just part of the development process for a little boy or girl. Getting the facts on bed wetting can be a big help – not to mention a bit of a relief. Understanding why your child is wetting the bed can go a long way to putting a little perspective on things.
Food ideas for sporty kids
Lots of kids are encouraged to be energetic and sporty as part of a holistic healthy lifestyle. Active children require a significant increase in the amount of nutrients they consume. If your kids dont eat enough or the right things, their bodies are less likely to perform at their usual levels, kids may become sluggish, disinterested and attention levels may drop.
A healthy breakfast for kids
Studies show that kids who eat a nutritious, healthy and filling breakfast have higher levels of concentration during the day. Dentists are in agreement about the importance of breakfast; research has shown that kids who skip breakfast are at a greater risk for cavities and other tooth related ailments. Due to time constraints in the mornings your child may not give breakfast the attention it deserves.
Bedwetting Checklist
Checklists can be very useful in helping to remember the little things, when the task ahead of you seems large and difficult. We have a developed a bedwetting checklist where you can tick off a list of our suggested things to do to make the bedwetting stage as easy and fuss free and possible.
Constipation and Bedwetting
Constipation is an often over looked cause of bedwetting in children and it may even trigger bedwetting to surface after a period of dry nights. Constipation is when bowel movements are large, hard and difficult to pass. Constipation can occur if your child’s diet is low in fibre, they do not drink sufficient liquids, is very inactive or develops a habit of holding onto their stools.
Bedwetting, Nutrition and Active Kids
There are many myths and half truths out there regarding the subject of bedwetting. Our Bedwetting, Nutrition and Active Kids article debunks some popular myths and explores what may the main reason behind your child’s bedwetting. There are also some great tips for minimising the impact that bedwetting has on your child and your family.
Social Emotional Articles
Children and parents alike can find bedwetting stressful, tiring and emotionally draining. Understanding the fact bedwetting causes are not only physical as well as the social and emotional impact bedwetting can have on a child is important. As a parent, considering the social and emotional wellbeing of your child and understanding how social and emotional factors affect your child’s development are vital to treating and overcoming bedwetting.
Depression in children
Depression occurs not only in adults but in children too. While not all children who wet the bed will suffer from depression, the low self-esteem and negative self-image that bed wetting causes can be a precursor to childhood depression. Children can go through an entire range of emotions in one day. From the highs of accomplishment in class to the low of bullying in the school playground. However real depression happens when the lows your child experience start to impact on his/her overall happiness.
Building self esteem and bedwetting
Self-esteem is how we feel about ourselves (i.e. self-perception) and this feeling is reflected in our actions. Wetting the bed can make your child feel insecure, embarrassed and shameful. These are all powerful emotions that often have a negative effect on your child’s self esteem.
Bullying - Identify if your child is being bullied
For school aged children there are an infinite number of factors that can shape their social and emotional wellbeing. However, bullying is something that often goes unreported and miss-diagnosed by parents.
Peer Pressure
As your child grows and develops the peer group becomes increasingly influential over the decisions they make and their behaviour. Children are not only influenced by their friends; they also influence their friends, as they share ideas and voice their attitudes.
Starting school
Starting school, moving house or the birth of a sibling are exciting times for both children and parents, but it can also represent a time of stress and anxiety. Whether or not these represent a time of stress depends on children’s perceptions of the event as well as the level of support they receive.
Friendship, shyness and aggressive behaviours
The friendships that a child makes have a significant impact on their social and emotional wellbeing. While relationships with parents and siblings are often obligatory the friendships a child makes outside of their comfort zone are chosen.
Kids Self-confidence
Children build self-esteem and self-confidence through successful experiences. As your child develops they learn more about themselves, constructing a detailed self-image. They begin to make self-judgments or evaluations about what type of person they are.
Social development
Every child is unique. Differences in personality, culture and background all shape your child’s behaviour in social settings. Social and emotional wellbeing is dependent on your child’s social competency and social competence is important for your child’s future success.
Grief: Explaining death to children
One of the most difficult emotional strains on anybody is the death of a friend or loved one. As a mature adult you’ve leant to deal with the different stages of grief and how to express these both emotionally and socially.
Parent-child relationships
One of the most important, if not the most significant, relationship in your child’s life is the relationship they form with you – their parent. As the cornerstone of support for your child, your behaviours and the relationship your form with your child are the building blocks for your child’s social and emotional wellbeing.
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