how do i train my 6 year old son to get up and pee at night, he still uses pampers and sleeps very soundly?

Answer 1

Believe it or not, I am one of those nuts who thinks it is cruel to expect a 6 yr old son to get out of bed in the nite to go potty with any regularity. I also think it is cruel to shame a 6 yr old for wetting the bed. So he sleeps soundly, get used to it because he will wet the bed until it is his time to stop. My son wet until he was about 12 off and on. We went thru a lot of detergent and bed linens, but it passed and I never put him thru the shame and humility my parents put my 2 older brothers thru. We just dealt with it. I do not know of any parents who has a 6 yr old who doesn't wet the bed. Thats the truth!

Answer 2

Well my son is also 6 and he still has problems. What I did was go to Wal-mart and get a protective cover for his mattress. They are like 6 bucks. Then I had him wear pull-ups. They tend to feel the wetness better. And I also have him stop drinking about 1-2 hours before he goes to bed. If he has any kind of soda throughout the day, I make sure he pees a couple of times before he goes to bed. I too was concerned about him peeing the bed, especially because he really didn't start until after our house burnt. But it is very common in young children. Right now he sleeps in underwear and pees on average about 3 times a week.

Answer 3

This is not too difficult to answer.

First, go to Target and buy an alarm. It is inexpensive and works by having a pad on the bed hooked up to an alarm. When it gets even a little bit wet, the alarm goes off, the child wakes up and walks to the bathroom. It will have him cured within a week or so.

You also combine that with the limiting of liquids before bed, praise when he doesn't wet the bed, and by all means, get a 6 year old out of diapers of any kind. That tells him he is a baby and it is perfectly alright to wet the bed.

Answer 4

Switch from Pampers to Goodnights. They look more like underwear than diapers. You don't want him to feel like he's still a baby. Encourage him to pee every night before bed and cut off his fluids at least two hours before bedtime. Lots of kids have a bed wetting problem. The important thing is to let him know he's not alone and his bladder just hasn't caught up with the rest of him yet. Good luck!

Answer 5

Children's bladders do not fully develop until they are about 8 years old, so this is definitely not unusual. And boys tend to have a harder time than girls.

Don't wake your poor child up at night!!!! Let him sleep!!!

Make sure to limit the fluids within 2 hours of him going to bed and make sure he wears some kind of pull-up or whatever. And he will eventually grow out of it. But dragging him out of bed in the middle of the night is just going to make BOTH of you grouchy!

And here is the major thing you need to do. DON'T MAKE A BIG DEAL ABOUT IT. The more stress you put on him, the more anxious he will become and the worse his problem could become. My daughter wet the bed here and there until she was about 7, and I never made a fuss, and I always hugged her and told her accidents happen. She is 10 now and hasn't wet the bed in nearly 3 years.

Answer 6

Stop putting the pampers on him. He knows that he can use the pamper, so he has no reason to even try to get up at night. SO they're counterproductive at this point. Have him wear regular underwear, buy a plastic sheet to go under his regular sheets, and put him to bed as normal. When you put him to bed, stress to him that he is wearing underwear, so that he has to get up and go. Of course he'll have accidents in the beginning (the purpose of the plastic sheet) but offer lil rewards when he has a dry night. And give him an even bigger reward when he goes a week without an accident. After you see that he will get up & go on his own, start phasing out the rewards. Extend it to a month dry....then two months...and on...

Answer 7

Just be patient. You, I nor he knows when he will stop wetting at night. The only thing you can do is wait it out.

Some things you can do to make this time more comfortable are:

-Keep him in the diapers at night. well, dont use diapers that you have to put on him but rather pull-ups (easier for him if he might wake up in the middle of the night.)

-Wake him in the middle of the night to use the toilet. It might be a little inconvenient but it will, hopefully, get him into a routine of waking in the middle of the night to go.

-You can buy an alarm that will sound when he begins to wet. It can be used whether he is wearing a diaper or regular underwear.

Answer 8

you should already have discussed this with your doctor. he is a bed wetter and this is not his fault. It is an underdeveloped bladder and if you try to "train" him to get up at night, he will fail and will feel badly about himself because he can't help it.

My son is 81/2 and still can't wake up at night to urinate. I feel sorry for him cause he won't sleep over anyone's house. But his doctor said he'll give him til he's 9 and then medicate him. He doesnt' wake up in the night for anything......if I wake him up, he goes right back out. I tried about a year ago to set my alarm each night and get up with him in an effort to train his body to wake up. it didnt' work......he'd simply wet the bed earlier or later. I tried no liquids after 6pm, didn't work. He uses "good-nights" undergarments, so try them. dont' use pampers anymore.....they're too babyish. talk to your doc right away though.

Answer 9

I don't know if your interested or not (I wasn't) but my oldest ahd that prblem and the dr suggested an alarm that would go off when they start to wet.. and it would wake them...
Try not to give him any liquids after 7pm and CUT back on the caffiene he is taking in... that will help you trmendously! Make sure he goes a few times before bed and even if you have to get up in the night and wake him to go... trust me these techniques all work.. you just need to do them. (And you will try anything if you don't want to have toi keep washing and changing his sheets everynight)

Answer 10

well you limit his liquid intake quite earlier than bedtime. I also think you should ditch the pampers because it is giving him the sense that peeing the bed is no big deal because it will go in the diaper and diapers are for peeing in anyway sooo why not? He is going to get too used to th esafetly of the diaper...I think it is time to go cold turky