Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:No, not normal at all. My daughter just turned 8. I can’t imagine her or anyone in her grade still wearing diapers.
They do. They just don’t talk about it because they know you will judge them.
My kid is 12 and has never had a dry night. Even the prescription pills can’t keep him totally dry all night. You would never know from talking to him - he does his own laundry, is a mother’s helper to neighborhood kids, great grades. Just a deep sleeper who doesn’t make enough of a particular hormone (like his uncle and grandfather). He will eventually.
Anonymous wrote:Do a search. Lots of parents here have kids in nighttime diapers. The older generation think it’s odd, but kids are progressively getting daytime trained and nighttime trained later and later these days. I’m sure a poster will come along and say how it’s normal and not a big deal. And it is normal - here in the U.S. It’s not normal in many other countries.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Do a search. Lots of parents here have kids in nighttime diapers. The older generation think it’s odd, but kids are progressively getting daytime trained and nighttime trained later and later these days. I’m sure a poster will come along and say how it’s normal and not a big deal. And it is normal - here in the U.S. It’s not normal in many other countries.
I think it’s funny that you somehow think kids in other countries are immune to this issue.
I think it’s funny that you don’t know what the word “immune” means. And that you don’t understand that cultural differences and access to diapers makes a big difference. Before the advent of disposable diapers, kids were potty trained at an earlier age in the U.S. The convenience of disposable diapers meant that parents did not prioritize potty training.
A helpful hint - don’t take it personally. No one is saying that you are not a good parent because your kid wets the bed. But pretending that there are no external issues that either encourage or discourage potty training is ridiculous.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6259524/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17315220/
My parents beat the sh!t out of me regularly because I could not stay dry at night in the 1980s and into the 1990s. Had zero effect on my ability to stay dry. It has NOTHING to do with encouraging, or not encouraging, potty training. No amount of beating and shaming me into my teen years could "train" me into being dry. It was a medical issue.
But let me tell.you, I remember those beatings. I was a small kid into my early teens, my parents had no worries about being able to fight back. You think I wet the bed because I liked getting the crud beat out of me at 6:30 in the morning day after day? "Stop pissing your bed if you don't wanna get hit!" If only it was so easy.
Ironic, I'm female and struggle into my teens. My brothers (who are otherwise absolute idiots and failures as adults) started staying dry very young. My parents never let me forget that.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Do a search. Lots of parents here have kids in nighttime diapers. The older generation think it’s odd, but kids are progressively getting daytime trained and nighttime trained later and later these days. I’m sure a poster will come along and say how it’s normal and not a big deal. And it is normal - here in the U.S. It’s not normal in many other countries.
I think it’s funny that you somehow think kids in other countries are immune to this issue.
I think it’s funny that you don’t know what the word “immune” means. And that you don’t understand that cultural differences and access to diapers makes a big difference. Before the advent of disposable diapers, kids were potty trained at an earlier age in the U.S. The convenience of disposable diapers meant that parents did not prioritize potty training.
A helpful hint - don’t take it personally. No one is saying that you are not a good parent because your kid wets the bed. But pretending that there are no external issues that either encourage or discourage potty training is ridiculous.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6259524/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17315220/
My parents beat the sh!t out of me regularly because I could not stay dry at night in the 1980s and into the 1990s. Had zero effect on my ability to stay dry. It has NOTHING to do with encouraging, or not encouraging, potty training. No amount of beating and shaming me into my teen years could "train" me into being dry. It was a medical issue.
But let me tell.you, I remember those beatings. I was a small kid into my early teens, my parents had no worries about being able to fight back. You think I wet the bed because I liked getting the crud beat out of me at 6:30 in the morning day after day? "Stop pissing your bed if you don't wanna get hit!" If only it was so easy.
Ironic, I'm female and struggle into my teens. My brothers (who are otherwise absolute idiots and failures as adults) started staying dry very young. My parents never let me forget that.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Do a search. Lots of parents here have kids in nighttime diapers. The older generation think it’s odd, but kids are progressively getting daytime trained and nighttime trained later and later these days. I’m sure a poster will come along and say how it’s normal and not a big deal. And it is normal - here in the U.S. It’s not normal in many other countries.
I think it’s funny that you somehow think kids in other countries are immune to this issue.
I think it’s funny that you don’t know what the word “immune” means. And that you don’t understand that cultural differences and access to diapers makes a big difference. Before the advent of disposable diapers, kids were potty trained at an earlier age in the U.S. The convenience of disposable diapers meant that parents did not prioritize potty training.
A helpful hint - don’t take it personally. No one is saying that you are not a good parent because your kid wets the bed. But pretending that there are no external issues that either encourage or discourage potty training is ridiculous.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6259524/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17315220/
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Do a search. Lots of parents here have kids in nighttime diapers. The older generation think it’s odd, but kids are progressively getting daytime trained and nighttime trained later and later these days. I’m sure a poster will come along and say how it’s normal and not a big deal. And it is normal - here in the U.S. It’s not normal in many other countries.
I think it’s funny that you somehow think kids in other countries are immune to this issue.
Anonymous wrote:Do a search. Lots of parents here have kids in nighttime diapers. The older generation think it’s odd, but kids are progressively getting daytime trained and nighttime trained later and later these days. I’m sure a poster will come along and say how it’s normal and not a big deal. And it is normal - here in the U.S. It’s not normal in many other countries.