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Age To Start Trying For Dry Night
October 29th, 2009
We have 3 children, & our oldest boy is 4 years 8 months & for the last 3 months has been dry at night.
Our problem is with younger brother who is 2 yrs 10 months & he wants to be like his older brother & go without a nappy at bedtime (he has been dry during day for 5 months), we didn’t want to make an issue of him not wearing a nappy – so we encouraged him & let him be like his brother, not at all worried as there is protective mattress covers etc., but he does wet the bed & is really upset by this, even though we let him know it’s not a problem & we give him re-assurance, but is there a better way to handle it, cos he gets so upset, & I do think he is a little young yet for to be dry in the night, but I don’t want to force him into drynites if he wants to be like his brother.
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on 03/12/2009 at 15:28
This is a bit tricky and as good a time as any to address what could become a very important issue down the road. I know that we are here to talk about bedwetting but wanting to be ‘just like his brother’ is not always going to be a good thing for either of them. This is as good a time as any to make sure you don’t fall into that as an automatic pattern. I had a friend once who had a similar situation and she told her child that astronauts wear pyjama pants and believe it or not it worked! He went back to wearing them with not a complaint J You can also do a reward chart. Because he is rather young it would need to be very simple – if he wears them 7 days in a row he gets (?) Make sure that he also understands that he is being rewarded for his own activity. This might seem unnecessary now but down the road there will be times when you are going to need to focus on individual behavior, punishments and rewards. Good luck!