Getting To Dry: How to Help Your Child Overcome Bedwetting - Softcover

Maizels, Max

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558321314 ISBN 13: 9781558321311

Publisher: Harvard Common Press, 1999

Synopsis

More than four million children over the age of five wet the bed. For most, time will solve the problem - eventually. But how long will "eventuallyâ? be, and at what cost to parents' frayed nerves or to the child's self-esteem? Parents can speed up the clock and children can wake up dry. The experts at the country's leading center for treating childhood enuresis - the Try for Dry program at Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago - offer proven techniques that bring bedwetting to a happy end. They cover the pros and cons of wetting alarms, drug therapies, biofeedback treatment, and changes in diet and sleeping schedules, and they provide friendly advice on how to replace punishment and shame with awards and praise. With diaries, calendars, and other visual aids that help the child share responsibility for a solution, this authoritative book gets parents and children over a most frustrating hurdle.

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Review:

"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

From the Back Cover:

Eventually, most children will outgrow bedwetting. But how long will eventually be, and at what cost to parents frayed nerves or to a childs self-esteem?

In Getting to Dry, the experts at the countrys leading center for childhood wetting show that parents can speed up the clock and children can wake up happy and dry. They cover the pros and cons of wetting alarms, drug therapies, and changes in diet and sleeping schedules, and they provide warmhearted advice on how to replace punishment and shame with rewards and praise. Above all, they offer proven techniques that really work.

Finally-an easy-to-read book on bedwetting! Dr. Maizels and his colleagues have given us a well-written, wide-ranging manual, appropriate for professionals and parents, on how to treat enuresis. -Dr. Mark R. Zaontz, M.D., Head, Pediatric Urology, Southern New Jersey Regional Childrens Hospital

This well-conceived and clearly presented volume brings basic information to parents and other care givers. Controversial issues are discussed in a balanced fashion. The glossary and the resources section will serve the reader well. -Dr. David T. Miniberg, M.D., Chairman, The National Kidney Foundation Section on Pediatric Nephrology and Urology, and Director, Pediatric Urology Division, The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center

Getting to Dry allows parents and children to take control of a problem they are often too embarrassed to discuss. It offers a refreshing approach that is realistic, family-centered, and practical. Recommended for doctors, nurses, physical therapists, and social workers as well as parents. -Dr. Barbara C. Woodring, R.N., Ed.D., Chair, Department of Parent-Child Nursing, The Medical College of Georgia

A wonderful, straightforward, and enlightened book for parents and health-care providers alike, by authors with extensive experience. This book will really help thousands of families. -Dr. Mark Stein, Ph.D., Chief of Psychology, Childrens National Medical Center and George Washington Medical School.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard Common Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1558321314
• ISBN 13: 9781558321311
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272