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[quote=Anonymous]My daughter is 11, perfectly healthy and no concerns developmentally, but she has a really frustrating habit of leaving it until the very last second to go to the bathroom, often leading to a mad dash and just barely making it. She’s got a school friend over for a sleepover tonight, and half an hour ago whilst they were sat “doing homework” (ie. Chatting and procrastinating) she made the usual mad dash, but this time her luck was out and she had an accident. She covered by changing into PJs and got her friend to do the same (guess we’re eating dinner in PJs tonight 🤷‍♂️) but if she’d been just a few seconds later there’d have been no hiding it and she’d have been mortified in front of her friend.

Don’t get me wrong if it had happened it would have been entirely her fault, actions have consequences and all that, but I’m so worried about the potential stigma and teasing if she does end up having an accident around her friends, or worse at school! I’m absolutely certain there’s no medical issue, it’s not a sudden urgency or being unable to hold it for a normal length of time it’s purely putting it off too long and choosing not to go until it’s almost too late…or, now it seems, it is.

I’ve not said anything to avoid embarrassing her in front of her friend, she doesn’t know yet that I know what happened as I found the wet leggings and pants stuffed down the side of the laundry hamper after she changed so early and unexpectedly. I just needed to vent my worry and frustration, and wouldn’t want to talk to anybody in real life about this. I’ll have a proper chat with her tomorrow, but I just don’t know what to say  to convince her that going to the bathroom when she needs to pee makes more sense than the last minute dashes and risk of an accident with all of the embarrassment that could come with that.

So far as I know it’s the first time it’s happened, she’s not had an accident I can remember since starting school and not even wet the bed for a few years, but she needs to learn you can only push your luck and your body so far before it goes wrong, and I shudder thinking how humiliated I’d have felt peeing my pants at 11. [/quote]

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