Bedwetting: Expert Advice

I try to spend some quiet time with each of my children before bedtime. I admit that some evenings it's more difficult, especially when we get home late from the children's sports activities and we try as best we can to give them a bath and put them to bed on time.

Despite this, calm prevails 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 making sure all problems are resolved before tucking the children in.
If one of them has worries or concerns about something that happened during the day, I like to talk about it, to sort things out and take the burden off their shoulders. If the little ones are afraid of the monster in their closet or the Sandman at their window, I try to reassure them by saying that their room is much too messy for a monster to dare enter. If that doesn't work, I turn on the lights and look exaggeratedly under the bed and in the closet for monsters. I have a friend who took it a step further. She gave her daughter a bottle of "Monster Repellent" (water) that she can spray in her room to keep monsters away.

When my child suffered from bedwetting, I made sure he had his incontinence pads. This way, he could go to bed confident 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 peaceful and in good spirits in the morning after a good night's sleep in a dry environment.