If your child (or a child you care for) has been dry for months—sometimes even a year or more—and suddenly starts wetting the bed again, it can feel like a punch to the gut. You might worry: Did we do something wrong? Is this a medical emergency? Is it behavioral?
If you continue to punish your child for bedwetting, the consequence is a fractured relationship that may never fully heal. I have sat with 40-year-old adults in therapy who still flinch when they hear the sound of a washing machine spin cycle because it reminds them of their father’s 3:00 AM rage over wet sheets. redemption bedwetting and consequences
Anxiety: The nightly dread of an accident they cannot control. Redemption Bedwetting: Why It Happens, Why It’s Not
If you are reading this, chances are you are exhausted. You’ve changed the sheets at 2:00 AM—again. You’ve run the laundry load before the sun came up. You’ve tried limiting fluids, waking them up in the night, and maybe even resorted to sticker charts that ultimately ended in tears. If you continue to punish your child for
When a child is taught that they must earn redemption from bedwetting: