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Originally Posted by MommyToTwo
Please don't yell at your son for something he can't control. Bedwetting is bad enough without having parents that get angry about it.
If all medical tests show there is nothing causing it, you are just going to have to wait it out. Between my 3 siblings and I, 2 of us wet the bed until we were in our teens (my brother was 17, and I was 14 (although, at age 30, I still have an accident about once per year)), and the other two outgrew it around the time they tuned 10. My mom also wet the bed until she was 14.
Keep a waterproof mattress pad on his bed (vinyl is easier than the cotton covered ones) and make him responsible for getting wet sheets, blankets and jammies into the washer. He's old enough to handle getting them there, even if he can't actually run the washer himself yet.
Don't make him feel bad about it. Don't punish him for it. Just find ways to help him deal with it.
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Yes PLEASE don't. No amount of yelling, punishing, cajoling or humiliating him will make him stop. Only time will. Just handle it matter-of-factly. Put a vinyl sheet on the mattress. Minimize the bedding....no top sheet and a thermal blanket instead of so much to wash.
My son wet the bed until he was nearly 10 -- and it was no big deal. BTW, the Goodnights make it worse instead of better. But my son and I made no big deal out of it -- we'd strip the bed, toss the sheets and wet pjs in the washer, then throw them in the dryer just before we left the house for the day.
It's embarassing enough for him to have this problem, without being nagged about it. Let it go...just deal with the clean up each day.
Robin