Our Message For Children
Parents, this is a great opportunity to show your child more about why they’re wetting the bed, that it’s not their fault, they are not alone, and nothing is wrong with them. Share our message with them:
There are other children in your school who also wet the bed. They donʼt talk about it, and neither do you. And that’s ok. You don’t have to.
Wetting the bed does NOT mean that:
- You’re lazy
- You drink too much water at night
- There’s something wrong with your body
- Bedwetting accidents are your fault
- You’re alone
It’s because you sleep very, very deeply–much like a hibernating bear! Sleeping as deeply as a bear in winter makes your brain unable to talk to your bladder when you’re sleeping. And if your brain can’t talk to your bladder to tell it to hold pee in it, then it will empty the pee into your bed. This is the ONLY reason why you’re wetting the bed, and it’s not something you can control right now. There’s nothing wrong with your brain or body. And there’s nothing wrong with you–you’re awesome! We just need to teach your brain to sleep a brand new way.
The drawing below shows you how your body’s urinary system works. This is where urine is made. Everybody calls it “pee”. When you drink something, it goes to the kidneys in your body and turns into pee.
Find the kidneys on the drawing: Your kidneys make pee. The pee travels down little tubes called ureters, and enters your bladder.
Find the bladder on the drawing: Your bladder keeps getting larger with pee until you feel like you have to go. After you pee, your bladder is empty. When you’re sleeping, your brain sleeps so deeply it doesn’t “hear” the bladder when it tries to tell the brain to wake up and go to the bathroom.
You wet the bed because your body has not yet learned how to hold pee in the bladder when you’re sleeping. We just need to teach it how! When we work with your parents to help your brain sleep the right way, then soon enough the bedwetting is gone forever. Then we’ll ALL get to celebrate together, because we work as a team, and team work makes the dream work!