My 6 yo DS was potty trained at 2.5 but has worn ninjamas at night. Two days ago he said to us “I can wake myself up at night when I need to pee now.” He was very proud so we agreed he could just wear underwear to bed. If there are accidents we plan to be reassuring and supportive. It’s more common now because kids used to be shamed fo bedwetting instead of acknowledging that night training takes longer for some kids for biological reasons beyond their control.

It’s not uncommon for some kids to need nighttime protection until middle school. They aren’t doing it on purpose, as others have said it’s a developmental thing. Be supportive, they will outgrow it before long.

Anonymous wrote:I’m too lazy to night train. My 3.5 year old is dry all night then pees in it when she wakes up. I don’t want to deal with sheet changes. I figure she can wear them until she’s embarrassed and willing to get out of bed to pee reliably. Easily day potty trained at 2.

Your attitude sucks. A lot of kids are comforted by the warm feeling of peeing in their pull-ups, and it might take years for your daughter to want to stop doing so. She’d probably stop peeing in bed within days if you switched her to underwear. In the meantime, you’re adding hundreds of pull-ups annually to landfill simply because you don’t want to change the sheets a few times. Nice.

11- and 9-year-olds both cloth diapers and plastic pants for bedwetting. Both beds dry in morning.

No child goes off to college wearing pull-ups. Your child will be ready when he is ready. Worrying about it only gives you age lines.

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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.

Bc Americans are so lazy, everything is about immediate convenience. They're too lazy to wash sheets or help the child to the bathroom so just keep them in diapers??? WTH

Yes, it’s true, I’m too lazy to deal with being woken up to help kid go pee. I’m also too lazy to want to throw out mattresses or be washing sheets every night. I’m just waiting until kid is dry every night for months on her own and can use the bathroom totally independently at night. Kid is 3 and I don’t care how long she stays in pull-ups. I don’t see how my laziness is harming her. She’s been day trained since just after 2.

My pediatrician had said don’t even try to night train until 7 1/2, they’re not mature enough before that. We trained DS at 8, we used a bed wetting alarm that clips to their underwear. Before that, he wet his pull-up every night and I was prepared for the training to be really hard/long, but with the help of the alarm, things worked really quickly. I know the alarm sounds harsh, but it really worked.

Although there’s nothing technically wrong with wetting the bed/wearing a pull up, DS really wanted to do sleepovers, sleep away camp, etc. Pediatrician also said that the habit of peeing at night becomes so ingrained, it might not go away naturally at this age.

With my other two kids, it happened naturally around age 4 or 5.

Anonymous wrote:What do all these preteen bed wetters so at slumber parties? Skip them?

It’s very tricky. In our case, we use a medicine that stops bed wetting

Anonymous wrote:What do all these preteen bed wetters do at slumber parties? Skip them?

My kid wears goodnites just as he would at home, Alot of his friends already know about it so it's never an issue.

What do all these preteen bed wetters so at slumber parties? Skip them?

My son just turned 10 in January and he still wets most nights . He just puts a goodnite on before he goes to bed . We are careful not to call them pull-ups in front of him we call them nighttime underwear seems to help a little even though there basically a pull-up. Hoping he stops soon .

Anonymous wrote:No don't do it!! If they feel the wetness of having an accident, it helps to train them more properly. The diaper is just a crutch. Don't be lazy, please help them to complete training by allowing them to feel the consequences.

Night dryness is a hormonal thing, varies by kid and 100% out of the parents control. You are 100% an a hole though.

My son never wet the bed— not one time—because I kept him in pull-ups until he was about 9. He did wet his pull-ups — all the time! Until he did not, and we stopped wearing them. My awesome pediatrician said bed wetting (really deep sleeping) is hereditary and to monitor him and he would let us know when he could rouse himself. No shame, just let kids know others are in same boat (why would target have so many pull-ups for sale if this was not a thing many people struggled with?) I say all this bc my parents terrorized the bed wetters in my sibline. And it caused lifetime problems. No one wants to wet the bed.

Anonymous wrote:No don't do it!! If they feel the wetness of having an accident, it helps to train them more properly. The diaper is just a crutch. Don't be lazy, please help them to complete training by allowing them to feel the consequences.

I wet the bed until i was 13, From 4 to 8 years old i did not use any protection and it didn't make any difference at all, You don't have a clue what you're talking about.

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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.

Bc Americans are so lazy, everything is about immediate convenience. They're too lazy to wash sheets or help the child to the bathroom so just keep them in diapers??? WTH

The grownups are talking. Please go play outside with your friends.