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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It takes patience, time, positive encouragement, and dedication to train your kid to use the “potty” and then the toilet by 3y. [/quote]

Yep. And staying dry all night has zero correlation with how patient, positive, and dedicated a child's parents are when it comes to daytime potty training. Believe me, I wish it did. Heck, I wish staying dry at time was correlated with how nasty, judgemental, and downright vicious parents were about staying dry at night, because then maybe I wouldn't have emotionally suffered for years. But it's not. A child will stay dry overnight when their body has matured enough to do so, and there is an extremely broad range of "normal." And for the kids who can't (and it definitely is can't, not won't), they wish they could.[/quote]

How old were you when you stopped?[/quote]

15 or 16. It was awful. My parents called me every name in the book, accused me to doing it on purpose just to make life more difficult for them.

I have a 7 year old who cannot stay dry. I did pretty much the opposite of my parents: patient, positive, never calling him names. Kid still wets 99/100 nights. Went to a ped urologist just after he turned 7, and they said he was still within the "normal" range, and given my history, it's not surprising he's not overnight dry. There's no apparent medical issue causing this. Urologist said we could try alarms, but it's at best 50/50 to work. And since my son sleeps right through his alarm almost every morning, even though it's right next to his head, we decided it was unlikely to work for him. We're just sucking up the expense of pull ups for now. If it continues beyond the range of normal, then we'll investigate medical issues again.[/quote]

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