Back in the day, say ... when I was five ... I still wet the bed. My parents thought that if I couldn't tell I was wet, then perhaps a secondary external cue could. So they bought a buzzer. The contraption was clipped to my underwear each night. It buzzed when it got wet. I was supposed to hear it and wake up. I never did. In fact, I'm not sure how I escaped the experiment without being electrocuted.
Talmage is working on staying dry through the night. Since this process started, we stopped buying pull-ups and started buying a lot more Borax. He's a deep sleeper. This was tonight's conversation:
Me: Right before you go to sleep tonight, remember to empty your bladder.
T: [wiggle, wiggle from my embrace - possibly because he's heard this all before]
Me: You could even wake up in the middle of the night and go to the bathroom if you need to. What do you think of that?
T: That would be ... awkward.
If any of you have some tips about how to help a kid learn to stay dry through the night, let me know. If it would be less awkward for you, feel free to write in as "anonymous".
One more short conversation:
Tonight, in the car, Talmage pushed a pre-programmed radio button and a rowdy song blared out. "Partyyyyyyyyyyyyy!"-electric guitar-drums-raucousness. I casually pushed a different button and he promptly pushed on the Party song again. We did this a couple times, back and forth. Stalemate. Finally I said, "I don't really like this song."
T: I like it.
Me [trying to keep it neutral; already fearing for the future]: What do you like about it?
T [thoughtfully]: I guess I like the flutes.
2 comments:
Robin- so you could have a kid like mine. He gets up in the middle of the night to pee, and comes and uses my bathroom, and turns on all the lights. And if by chance, he does "pee his bed", he gets up at 2 a.m. crying, and carrying on, and refusing to sleep in it- and since it is the top of a bunkbed, and hubby works nights, mommy just puts a towel on it and tells him to sleep on the other end because she will fix it in the morning. So I don't know which one is better- your son's way or my son's way ;)
i lost your blog address back in 2006 right after talmage was born...and just found it again today!
my almost 8 yr. old STILL wears pull-ups to bed! he CANNOT wake up. we have tried an alarm clock, but he sleeps so deeply that he never hears it. if we remember to go down at 10pm and wake him up and take him then, SOMETIMES he is dry in the morning...but not always. i am looking at buying an insanely expensive "sonic boom" alarm clock, but i don't want the whole house up at 2am...haha. even when we do get him up after he has gone to bed, it takes him 20+ minutes to become coherent enough to get him into the bathroom. i really don't know what to do, because he is 7! if you find something that works...please share! i would love to never buy a pullup ever again.
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