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[quote=Anonymous]Ok- so I'm a 40-something mom who had issues with bed wetting until I was way older than 5.  There was a long family history and one of my two kids struggles with this as well.

It's normal and you should make sure your kid knows that, but also you need to be realistic.  Just read this thread- there are plenty of ADULTS who are nasty about this, much less kids.

But it's irrelevant that the 8th grader doesn't know that there are kids who are still in pull ups, or diapers, or whatever, past toddlerhood.  She's well old enough to know that calling a child a baby or asking if he pees his pants is rude.  My kids meet a lot of people with physical and emotional differences; people who talk differently, act differently, wear different clothes, eat different foods.  It's never appropriate to point, laugh, make jokes at their expense, or put them on the spot by demanding to know why are the way they are.  If the girl has questions about the bathroom habits of young children, she should know enough to wait until she is alone with her parents and ask.  I'm fascinated at how readily people are willing to call bad parenting on the bed wetter, but have no issue with the parenting of a pre-teen or teen who talks down to a child who is years younger because, at bottom, he has different physical abilities or habits than she expects.[/quote]

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