Getting to Dry: How to Help Your Child Overcome Bedwetting
by Max Maizels
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Author: Max MaizelsEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1999-01-15
ISBN: 1558321314
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Harvard Common Press
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Book Reviews of Getting to Dry: How to Help Your Child Overcome Bedwetting
Book Review: Trials and Trickles
Summary: 5 Stars
This is truly an excellent, in depth report of how and why children remain at the bedwetting stage in their lives. It is a commitment to a regimen that is necessary to get beyond the wetting stage. I have an 8 year-old male that is a very heavy sleeper. I sometimes think I've comitted more into this than he has. While the Kegel exercises work, and we made a rhyme of it...(we call it doing the Three Pee) it has controlled his over-wetting on most nights. So, our nights of getting up to change sheets are slowly becoming history. In my opinion, if the child is truly committed to being dry, this program WILL work! It's an excellent read for the biological minded. Share it with your twinkler. They'll enjoy understanding the science behind the wet bed!
Summary of Getting to Dry: How to Help Your Child Overcome Bedwetting
More than four million American children over the age of five wet the bed. Soaked pajamas and sheets, a smelly bedroom, and an avoidance of sleepovers are constant headaches for these children and their families. For most, time will solve the problem-eventually. Meanwhile, however, parents may lose patience, and childrens self-confidence may suffer irreparable damage.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.
"Yeah, he wets the bed, but so did I. He'll grow out of it." Sure, he probably will. But in the meantime, a child who chronically wets may suffer from low self-esteem or feel restricted in his or her social life. Pediatricians and parents regularly respond to bedwetting by forbidding water after dinner, prescribing drugs or an alarm system, or even resorting to punishment, but attempts are often sporadic and not part of an organized plan. As a result, they're not always successful.
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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