Is it ok that my 10 year old son still wears goodnites to bed? his friends teased him for this at a sleepover?

Question

Is it ok that my 10 year old son still wears goodnites to bed? his friends teased him for this at a sleepover?

Answer 1

My cousin was 17 and still wet the bed. It is perfectly normal. Boys are known to have more difficulties with their bladders. I would try the new goodnites that are like boxer shorts.

Answer 2

sorry...way too old.  have him go to the bathroom before bedtime, limits drinks late @ night.  he should have some form of control

Answer 3

Take him to the doctor and find out what may be causing him to wet his pants at night.  The sooner you find out the better.  If he needs them , then it's ok.  Maybe he could explain that he has a medical condition.

Answer 4

no its not okay! he's much too old, that should've stopped long ago.

Answer 5

not at all, i had the same problem when i was around 3-11/12. a lot of ppl go through. and if his "friends" were making fun of him, they arnt real friends.

Answer 6

What are goodnites?

Answer 7

no its not okay he's too old to be doing this..... you need to call a doctor and find out what you can do

Answer 8

i do not think this is ok.

my step son hated his but his mother insisted on putting him in them because he sleeps so hard that he was not waking up.

my husband and i stop his liquids at 7 pm-and make him go potty immediatly. then again at bed time.

we also wake him up around 12-1 am every night to get his body used to a routine of waking up.

some pediatricians say not to wake them up because of some "tramatic" bull ****--- but i think actually sitting in a wet diaper and waking up wet is more tramatic then waking him up once a night to go potty,

my husband wet the bed till he was 9-but it only took his grandfather 3 months of waking him up every night to condition him to wake up and go potty (his dad didnt care, he slept on pee sheets often for months)

good luck!!! but its really time to take control and help him get out of those diapers!!!!!!!

**ps bed wetting is hereditary, and its a force to be recconed with, takes patience and time! in personal experience and oppinion i think its cause parents hate changing wet sheets that kids are still in diapers(pull ups are still diapers)**

Answer 9

If your son really wants to stop wetting the bed then maybe you can try a bedwetting alarm.    Check your phone book (Yellow Pages) for medical supplies or medical equipment.    Call the store and ask if they sell bedwetting alarms.    Otherwise you can buy online.   Here's a link http://www.wetstop.com    It costs about $70 or $80.

Answer 10

Yes, please don't listen to those saying he shouldn't be wearing them. Although it isn't common in his age group, it is not unheard of to still be wetting the bed. As long as there is no medically corrective action that needs to be made (assuming you've spoken to the doctor) then I don't see a problem with it. Be sure to reassure your child that it is ok.

Answer 11

Did either you or your husband wet the bed?

Any aunts, uncles, cousins?

My husband and I both had several siblings who wet the bed - and each of my sisters and I had one who wet the bed!

Normally, they outgrow it, but I would ask the doc when they should see a specialist [ probably age 12 ].

1% of people get discharged fron the armed forces every year for wetting the bed [ that is not what it says on discharge papers! ]

PS: my parents did all that 'conditioning' stuff, and still had one wet til 10, one til 12, and one 13. AND there were no 'good nites' then. They even had the kids strip and wash their own sheets - it just took time [ years ] for their bladders to wake them up.

Answer 12

My parents tried everything for my brother and I as well. There weren't any Goodnights back then. I use them with my 5 year old cause I don't want her to feel ashamed. It isn't her fault or your sons. Cutting back on liquid does help, and getting them up once during the night also can help but it is a bladder problem that they can't control. Everyone in my family quit wetting the bed aroud 13. I remember being nervous at sleepovers. Maybe you could ask the mom at the sleepover if she could limit liquid and possibly wake your son in the night? Some parents wouldn't mind. I know I wouldn't.

Answer 13

Surely you have already taken him to a doctor about this.   So assuming he needs to wear them, maybe have a talk about being discreet about wearing them.  When he's at a sleepover tell him to change into his pjs in the bathroom.  There's no reason that the other kids had to find out.

Answer 14

If he is still wetting the bed at night, it is okay that he is still wearing them.........It would be much more humiliating for him to wet his bed everynight, not to mention, a headache doing the laundry everyday.  

This is something he must outgrow......it's a condition called Nightime Erunesis......There are medications for it, but recently studies are coming out that they medications can cause stroke and death in children if they aren't used properly.  They are also a temporary solution because once the medication is discontinued, the problem returns.

Here are some statistics on night time wetting:

In the U.S., about 5 to 7 million children aged 6 years or older suffer from primary nocturnal enuresis also called nighttime bed-wetting or the involuntary loss of urine at night when they could reasonably be expected to stay dry.

Consider that though 20% of 5-year-old children wet the bed, only about 5% of 10-year-olds and 1% of 15-year-olds -- like Terry -- wet the bed. And betwetting that continues into adulthood occurs rarely, according to the NKF.

http://www.webmd.com/parenting/guide/bed...

http://www.drgreene.com/21_1082.html

Answer 15

no it's not. - he needs to be taught how to use the bathroom when he needs to go. - he will be driving in 5 years, he should not be wearing diapers at the age of 10.

Answer 16

Don't listen to that other person  who is not the one who has to wash sheets every day and replace mattresses from him wetting.

You might consult a urologist - they may have some suggestions for you to help him with this embarrassing problem.

Tell your boy that its better to get teased for the Good Nights than for wetting the bed. Not that that will help him much. There isn't much we can do about that problem except maybe talk to the children's parents about the teasing and that could backfire and make it worse.