Edit: [quote=“Petrichor”]Awwww…I bet he loved that. I still lie down with my 7 year old until he goes to sleep sometimes. He’d sleep with me all the time if he could. I wouldn’t mind but he’s a terrible wriggler![/quote]
He sleeps quite peacefully, and I sleep like the dead. He complained the other day that he tried to wake me up to take him to school early, but I wouldn’t wake up.
And seeing as it’s just the two of us, I really like having him sleep with me, which is even more reason I wish I could get him to stop peeing in bed. Baby steps.[/quote]
We used these waterproof overlays for a while, but I think they were only peed on maybe once or twice before my kids stopped wetting their beds. bedwettingstore.com/Bedding/ … ofPads.htm
It’s a fantastic product. Very soft on the top, rubbery on the bottom, and it really absorbs liquid. It is machine washable too.
Good luck, Bismarck. FWIW, it sounds like you’re a great dad. I know it can’t be easy raising a child as a single parent.
[quote=“scomargo”]We used these waterproof overlays for a while, but I think they were only peed on maybe once or twice before my kids stopped wetting their beds. bedwettingstore.com/Bedding/ … ofPads.htm
It’s a fantastic product. Very soft on the top, rubbery on the bottom, and it really absorbs liquid. It is machine washable too.
Good luck, Bismarck. FWIW, it sounds like you’re a great dad. I know it can’t be easy raising a child as a single parent.[/quote]
Geez, those look awesome. Can they only be bought online, or are they available in stores in Taiwan?
Update: He did indeed pee the bed again last night, but not nearly as much as the night before. I took the advice above and just changed his clothes, lay down a towel, didn’t make a big deal out of it and just went back to bed. Fortunately, it wasn’t on my bed, as the mattress was still drying out from being washed.
I suspect granny is still putting nappies on him when he sleeps there sometimes. I wonder if that has any effect. Funny thing is, I decided to start letting him sleep without nappies because I began to notice that every morning the nappy would be dry.
[quote=“bismarck”][quote=“scomargo”]We used these waterproof overlays for a while, but I think they were only peed on maybe once or twice before my kids stopped wetting their beds. bedwettingstore.com/Bedding/ … ofPads.htm
It’s a fantastic product. Very soft on the top, rubbery on the bottom, and it really absorbs liquid. It is machine washable too.
Good luck, Bismarck. FWIW, it sounds like you’re a great dad. I know it can’t be easy raising a child as a single parent.[/quote]
Geez, those look awesome. Can they only be bought online, or are they available in stores in Taiwan?
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I bought mine online and had them shipped to me in the US during one of my trips to the US. I may even be able to sell you mine, but I’d have to talk it over with the wife first. PM me if you’re interested, and I’ll see what she says.
I haven’t read this entire thread, just want to chime in with some encouragement. 4 is still not too old, his body is still developing.
When kids sleep, they’re GONE. They don’t tend to hold onto a lot of tension and stress when they sleep like we do, so they’re too relaxed sometimes to realize they’ve peed until they’re cold and wet.
My aunt wet the bet until she was sixteen. My other aunts and my grandmother used to tease her horribly, fight with her (because she had to share a bet), scream at her, whip her, bribe her–you name it. When she was pregnant with her first child, she found out she was born with only one kidney.
When the Kitten learned to hold his nightwater, he didn’t just suddenly never wet the bed again. He had accidents from time to time. But for a very long time, if he had any–ANY–carbonation, even hours before bed, he’d wet. Partly, maybe, because he was almost three before he had any, but his body just couldn’t handle that. Maybe you can get the ayii or amah to enforce the only water after X o’clock rule.
I know all too well that 4 a.m. golden showers aren’t any fun at all. Just take a deep breath and love him through the moment–he’s even more miserable than you are.
This too will pass. All too swiftly. You’re doing a great job.
Oh, and at HGC from page one–WTF!! THAT ought to be prosecuitable child abuse!
Alternatively. what was that movie where the kid’s mum would hang his pee stained sheets in the window each day for his friends to see as he came home from school? He ended up as some outstanding runner, because as soon as the bell went he’d launch himself home to get the sheets in before the other kids could see them.
Now if you were to employ this tactic, you might be looking at the next great hope for South African wingers or fullbacks.
Ah! Here it is. The Loneliest Runner. And someone’s put the whole film on Youtube.
[quote=“Huang Guang Chen”]Alternatively. what was that movie where the kid’s mum would hang his pee stained sheets in the window each day for his friends to see as he came home from school? He ended up as some outstanding runner, because as soon as the bell went he’d launch himself home to get the sheets in before the other kids could see them.
Now if you were to employ this tactic, you might be looking at the next great hope for South African wingers or fullbacks.
Ah! Here it is. The Loneliest Runner. And someone’s put the whole film on Youtube.
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Is that Michael Landon!? I had such a huge little girl crush on him. I used to watch Little House on the Prarie and wish that he was my daddy.
Our kids were toilet trained before 2 and it has nothing to do with being saintly. It’s like we are their cheering team. Jia You baby!!! No pee pee in bed…whoa!!! And another night and another night yeah…and if there’s a spill, it’s just that, a spill. Imagine teaching your son to ride a bike without trainer wheels. You aren’t going to get upset just coz he loses his grips on the pedals or falls off, you’ll just be happy that he did 10 Metres…trust me, you’ll be fine!!!
my cousin wet his bed till he was 8. I suspect it had something to do with a poster on the back of the door of two hands coming out of the toilet. That freaked me out till I was 20!
Our kids were toilet trained before 2 and it has nothing to do with being saintly. It’s like we are their cheering team. Jia You baby!!! No pee pee in bed…whoa!!! And another night and another night yeah…and if there’s a spill, it’s just that, a spill. Imagine teaching your son to ride a bike without trainer wheels. You aren’t going to get upset just because he loses his grips on the pedals or falls off, you’ll just be happy that he did 10 Metres…trust me, you’ll be fine!!![/quote]2 seems EXTREMELY young to have dry nights. We certainly did not give our boy a hard time for wetting the bed at two. You had it easy, dear. Knowing what you’re doing must help, too.
Our kids were toilet trained before 2 and it has nothing to do with being saintly. It’s like we are their cheering team. Jia You baby!!! No pee pee in bed…whoa!!! And another night and another night yeah…and if there’s a spill, it’s just that, a spill. Imagine teaching your son to ride a bike without trainer wheels. You aren’t going to get upset just because he loses his grips on the pedals or falls off, you’ll just be happy that he did 10 Metres…trust me, you’ll be fine!!![/quote]2 seems EXTREMELY young to have dry nights. We certainly did not give our boy a hard time for wetting the bed at two. You had it easy, dear. Knowing what you’re doing must help, too. [/quote]
I said 2, coz the boy took a looong time. The girl was done in 15 months. She came to Taiwan a week before she was 2 and was completely diaper free. Even for long trips.
Yes I knew what I was doing, my mom started potty training them the week they were born…my daughter has been sleeping in her own bed since she was 4 the boy was 3 and now at 5 and half the girl does potty, washes herself, does a toilet paper check, pats dry and DONE!!! If they don’t do anything else in life, I will forever be proud of this. But that’s me.
I don’t mean to say others who have their kids in diapers till 4-5 are doing the wrong thing or anything. Point is, whenever you start, the process has to be the same, kind of like riding a bike, whether at 3 or at 30.
How do you potty train a baby at one week old??? [/quote] you take them over the sink and make em peee…they pee. You keep doing it and by week 6 they see the sink and pee…I’ve done it. But more than pee it’s potty. They learn that first. You hold them over the sink and they grunt and they potty!!! It happens. I’ve done it twice, and no my children don’t bear any scars. There are more misses than hits, and it’s fun Then as a mother you develop a relationship with a baby that will tell you when they want to go (super stink farts are a big clue). I know a lot of mums like that. We just know, we pick them up, hold them over the sink or toilet and voila have a shit load!!! It happens. I think it’s in the interest of diaper companies to promote potty training as something traumatic. You know learning to pee and shit is kinda natural like learning to eat. Ever wonder that half the world not only cannot afford a diaper have never heard of one. My whole family asked me to educate them on diapers, how to use them etc. coz none of them had seen them except in ads. I am 32, and was never diapered either.
This is Forumosa at its best: first world males are (as a generalisation) perhaps the most out of touch with nature (reality), but here they can learn in a gentle way how things work.
How do you potty train a baby at one week old??? [/quote] you take them over the sink and make em peee…they pee. You keep doing it and by week 6 they see the sink and pee…I’ve done it. But more than pee it’s potty. They learn that first. You hold them over the sink and they grunt and they potty!!! It happens. I’ve done it twice, and no my children don’t bear any scars. There are more misses than hits, and it’s fun Then as a mother you develop a relationship with a baby that will tell you when they want to go (super stink farts are a big clue). I know a lot of mums like that. We just know, we pick them up, hold them over the sink or toilet and voila have a shit load!!! It happens. I think it’s in the interest of diaper companies to promote potty training as something traumatic. You know learning to pee and shit is kinda natural like learning to eat. Ever wonder that half the world not only cannot afford a diaper have never heard of one. My whole family asked me to educate them on diapers, how to use them etc. because none of them had seen them except in ads. I am 32, and was never diapered either.[/quote]
This is so true Divea. More than half the world doesn’t use nappies and they manage just fine. Dogs and pigs will eat human shit and it’s pretty clear why! In my lifetime we’ve gone from plain cloth nappies, to disposables, to pull-ups. Potty training used to start with newborns, now parents are told not to even think about it until the child is 3 or 4. I’ve even heard people say that until the child is old enough to ask for the toilet, they can’t be potty trained. :s When I wanted to train my youngest son I couldn’t find a single potty for sale in any shop in my nearest town, yet there are whole supermarket aisles full of nappies. Definitely a conspiracy. :saywhat:
Hats off to you all!
But that’s me.