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Left unresolved, the problems of five year old kids bed wetting can lead to such problems as low self esteem and the fear of otherwise normal childhood activities such as sleep overs or any other social situation where the child will sleep away from their own bed, such as school camps. Unfortunately, bed wetting isn’t an easy problem to solve, and requires a great deal of patience and time from both the child and the parent to avoid a long lasting problem.

Normal development and general good health should be assured by a physician before trying to tackle the problem of bed wetting. Most bed wetting is a perfectly normal part of growing up, but there can sometimes be underlying medical causes or developmental issues that should be ruled out first and only a physician can do this.

There are several tools that can help with a child bed wetting. One of these is a bed wetting alarm to break the current sleeping habits. The cause of the bed wetting can be the child sleeping too deeply and being woken up by a bed wetting alarm will help the child to develop habits of waking up during the night to use the loo. When used with retention training, over time the child can be trained out of their current habits.

Even though its an emotive problem, the parents should take care not to blame their parenting skills, this is not usually the problem.

It is important that the kids don;t go to bed with a full bladder, so excessive beverage consumption before bed tie should be avoided.

Diuretic drinks such as colas should also be avoided by kids experiencing bed wetting problems.

Obviously bed wetting is a very emotional issue for the kids as well as the parents. The child will most likely be ashamed of their bed wetting episodes and care must be taken by the parents to show kindness patience and love. Any signs of anger or impatience at this stage will further embarrass and stress the child and will be of no help with resolving the underlying problem. Encouraging the building of their self esteem and positive reenforcement will both help the child break this habit more quickly.

Kids should not have their diets changed or be medicated in any way in an attempt to halt bed wetting without direct approval from the child’s doctor. Doing so might add further stress to the child which will not help at all with the underlying problem.

Ingrid Preube
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