Bedwetting, expert advice

I try to spend some quiet time with each of my children before bedtime. I admit that some nights it's more difficult, especially when we're home late from the kids' sports activities and struggling to get them bathed and to bed on time. Despite this, calm reigns most of the time. When I stick to our bedtime routine, the children are confident and calm. They know the routine and fall asleep quickly. Part of our bedtime routine is to make sure all issues are resolved before tucking the children in. If any of them have worries or concerns about something that happened during the day, I like to talk it over, to sort things out and take some of the pressure off them. If the little ones are scared of the monster in their wardrobe or the Seven O'Clock Man in their window, I try to reassure them that their room is far too messy for a monster to dare enter. If that doesn't work, I turn on the lights and do an exaggerated look under the bed and in the wardrobe looking for monsters. I have a friend who has taken this a step further. She gave her daughter a bottle of "Monster Repellent" (water) that she can spray around her room to repel monsters. When my child was bedwetting, I made sure he had his pads. This way, he could go to bed with the confidence that he wouldn't wake up in the middle of the night to change his clothes or the sheets. I knew he would wake up calm and relaxed in the morning after a good night's sleep, dry and comfortable.