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Food
dyes:
it
can’t hurt to avoid them for a while, and it just might help a
child get dry and improve daytime behaviour. Click
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How
to handle sleepovers
It’s
best to avoid sleepovers when following the DryKids routine,
and there are ways to deal with it. Avoidance is one
way, and going on the sleepover with a temporary
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Alarm
issues: Children
may fumble with the wires during sleep. If the contacts slip,
try this: with the alarm hanging inside a T-shirt, lead the
sensor inside the shirt and undies, fasten it inside so no
wires are visible. Or put another pair of undies on
top, to cover the contacts.
Don’t
let kids play with the wires or contacts too much, it isn’t a
toy. All alarms have sensor problems because it’s a balance
between light weight and durability.
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Rewards
for persistenceThe
experts advice to praise success and ignore failure. It
takes practice to achieve bladder control, because the
sleeping brain learns slowly. Rewards are usually required to
maintain the child’s momentum; the reward is for persistence, not
for being dry. The best rewards are a shared parent/child
experience, which makes the reward experience part of the program.
Click
here for ideas:
Parents
role:
It is
absolutely necessary for one of the parents to be with the
child every time he/she gets up at night. We’ve found that it is
quite rare for a child to get dry if they have to cope all alone
in the middle of the night. Here is part of an article by
Dr.
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