Getting to Dry: How to Help Your Child Overcome Bedwetting
by Max Maizels

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Summary of Getting to Dry: How to Help Your Child Overcome Bedwetting

The great majority of bedwetting children can wake up dry, sooner rather than later. Max Maizels, Diane Rosenbaum, and Barbara Keating, who together run the nations leading program for treating childhood enuresis, here share proven techniques for bringing bedwetting to a happy end. The authors provide practical advice on replacing shame and punishment with praise and rewards. They show how to involve the child in solving the problem, using visual aids such as diaries and calendars. The authors also discuss the pros and cons of wetting alarms, drug therapies, biofeedback treatment, and changes in diet and sleeping schedules. With the techniques they recommend, children and parents together can quickly make their way over this most frustrating development hurdle.

In Getting to Dry, authors Max Maizels (professor of pediatric urology), Diane Rosenbaum (child psychologist), and Barbara Keating (a nurse specializing in bed wetting) describe their system for analyzing your child's wetting problem and fixing it through a combination plan of behavioral therapy (carrying your child to the bathroom when he or she has to go), an alarm system, occasional drug therapy, and/or diet (no milk after lunch time, for example). They claim terrific success rates. Getting to Dry dispels myths and educates about enuresis, and then leads parents and kids step by step through the process of "getting to dry." The book also includes information for kids who wet during the day, as well as a superior troubleshooting guide that will help parents identify their child's specific problem and choose the appropriate steps to take toward a cure. --Ericka Lutz

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