Older Children & Bedwetting

This is a very sensitive subject not only for the children involved but as a parent.  It is frustrating & hard to understand.  Why is it that some children continually wet the bed well into their teens?  My son had this problem.  I spent so many nights trying to stop him from drinking after 7:00pm, to having an alarm to wake him up.  When nothing seemed to work, I opted for the pills.  He took them every night before bed.  We would try and ween him slowly off of them, but he would always seem to have "accidents".  I made sure my other children didn't tease him and that they were not allowed to tell their friends.  I didn't want my son to feel so ashamed and embarrased and have it affect his self esteem.  So, we kept the plastic cover on the mattress and just dealt with it.  Finally after about two years of taking the bedwetting pills, he stopped.  He ran out of pills and we waited and he never had another accident.  My advice to all of you parents going through the same thing, is do not make your child feel ashamed.  It is something that they cannot help and with patience and treatment, it will get better.