My daughter will be 6 in January. She is constantly having accidents (wetting pants). I know that kids don't want to stop what they are doing to go to the bathroom, but it's getting ridiculous. I'm at a loss as to how to correct this situation. Does anyone have any suggestions/insight for me? Thanks!
Thank you to all of you for your responses. There are several things that you all mentioned that I'm going to try. I especially like the idea of the beeper/alarm every hour and she has to go try. I would imagine that she will get tired of that very quickly and things will change fast. She has her yearly check-up next month, and I'm also going to talk with the doctor about it. She seems to hold her ped. in high regard, so I'm hoping that if her ped. talks to her about it, this will also help to change things. Again, thank you!!!!
L.
My daughter is 6 and had this problem a couple of months. Her dad and I seperated around the same time and she was also having trouble in school. I explained to her that it was not appropriate for a 6 year old to pee in her pants and that she really needed to work on going to the bathroom as soon as she realized she needed to go. I also had her teacher take her more frequently and the problem went away.
L.,
This could be just her trying to get attention or it could be a medical problem. I would try setting an alarm for her or getting her a watch that beeps every hour. That could be a reminder for her to go potty. I did that with my son at the same age and it worked wonders for him. Also putting a watch on her will not draw as much attention to her as having the teacher remind her verbally. It could just be your little secret with your daughter (of course the teacher needs to know about it but you can do that descretely through a letter to her).
Good luck!
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My 7 YO son just started to have accidents, but only while at school. It started at the same time that he was put on antibiotics so I thot maybe that has something to do with it. It has been going on for 3 wks now, and I am planning on asking his dr. He tells me that the urge comes on all of a sudden and he doesn't have time to make it to the bathroom. For him it sounds physical (he is doing fine in school, and my other son had surgery on Nov 7 so I think if it was emotional it would have started closer to that time than now when life is getting back to normal). I agree to ask your doctor about it, just to rule out anything physical. Will she use the bathroom at school at all, or public restrooms? I know some kids won't. Then make sure she goes before school in the morning and tell her to go at lunchtime. My son's class goes as a whole to the restroom after lunch.
Good Luck.
K.
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My middle child had the same thing going on with her around this age. I had taken her to the doctors thinking that something was a miss. She didn't have any life altering changes in her life...just to busy to go to the bathroom. My friend and I were talking one day and this is what we came up with. We set a kitchen timer...you can get them at the dollar store...for one hour...every hour of her awake time. When the timer went off...she went off to the bathroom. The first couple of days were great so I moved the timer to two hours. After about two weeks of bells going off per say...she started taking the intitive to go on her own again. Maybe you could try this!!!
Good luck...J.
I had this same issue with my daughter all of the way up until age 12. I took her to my pediatrician repeatedly who told me that I should not put her through the invasive exam required if she was dry at night. If she's dry all night, that shows that she has control of her bladder and doesn't have any kind of physical issues. More than likely, it is something as simple as forgetting to go and putting it off until they can't make it to the potty. We put her on a "schedule" of going and it helped, but we still fought with this until just a couple of years ago. I tried every angle - being firm, explaining the hygiene issues, being compassionate - none of them worked. She recently told me it was because the school bathrooms were disgusting and she didn't want to use them. I can believe that.
I had issues as a child, but when I had to go to the bathroom, it hit me all of a sudden and I had to squat down until the immediate urge was finished and then run to the bathroom and many of times I had accidents. The doctors finally realized that my uretha tube was too narrow and it needed to be stretched. I had to go in to have surgery. Peeing for the next few days was painful, but after that I was fine and had no more issues.
My daughter started having the same problem around that same time. Have there been any big changes in her life? When my son was born my daughter started trying to get attention. Also does she have problems at school? Talk to her teach or school guidance counselor on some in site on was to help you. I know it sounds horrible but I got to where I would reward my daughter with ice cream or a small toy at the end of the week for having no or only one accident. Hope this helps, best wishes.
Hello L.,
I would take some concern to this matter and consult her Doctor. I know kids sometimes have accidents due to them be so occupied that they hold it to long and have accidents but there may be some underlying issues. Better to be safe than sorry!! Hope everything works out!
