My 6-yr-old still pees at night!?

Question

How can you get a kindergardener to stay dry?!? We've tried most things: no pull-up (to hypothetically wake up when wet - ha!); waking the kid (a boy, of course!) up at midnite to pee; no water up to a couple of hours before bed...

We're stumped!!

What has been successful for you?

I'd love for my son to stop using Overnites!

Answer 1

Please don't take it out on him.

They will grow out of it. I promise.

Answer 2

This one is always hard... I had a similar issue with my son. Some of the things we did were...

Nothing except water after 5pm, and no drinks after 7pm (unless it was just a sip)

Always pee before bed, and if I was up later I would wake him and ask him if he needed to go again...

The water thing seemed to resolve it completely. Good luck!!

Answer 3

keep waking him up

at night and then he'll

get used to it

i still peeed in

the bed  at 11

Answer 4

Er.. well I wet the bed until I was about seven and my dad stopped at about nine. For me, it all of a sudden stopped. Until then, you'll probably just have to deal with it. It will go away. Just give it time.

Answer 5

My dad wet the bed until he was 12. My sis did until she was 9. The thing is, they just grow out of it. My parents took my sister to doctors and they all had the typical no caffine/no drinks past a certain time/ reward system advice, but at the end of the day none of it worked. The important thing is not to make a big deal out of it. He may already feel insecure about it, so try not to give him a complex. By the way, I'm no expert, but waking a sleeping child doesn't seem like a great idea to me. Disturbing the sleep pattern can't be helpful.

Answer 6

My two youngest sisters stopped wearing nappies at night and wetting the bed at the same time, one of them was about 10 yrs and the other six yrs old!!

They will eventually grow out of it, some just take longer then others, I think the older one realized she had to grow out of it because she couldn't go to friends sleep overs and was embarrassed about going on school camp.

Answer 7

many people have that issue. my sis wet the bed until 13! get him a wetting alarm so it wakes him up as soon as he pees. get him plastic/rubber sheets until he gets over this.

Answer 8

I have a 7 year old that still wears pull-ups at night.  I have talked to his pediatrician about it several times and he says not to be concerned about it unless it is really bothering your child.  They do have a prescription medication out for this that helps reduce the amount of urine that your body produces at night.  It's called desmopressin (DDAVP).