Night-time peeing, nail bitting/thumb sucking

[singlemom27]

My son is 5 years old and he have potty trained since 2 1/2.  He is still having problems with the bed wetting.  We will go maybe two weeks with dry pull-ups and than a whole month when he is peeing on himself every night.  I have stop giving him stuff to drink at 6 and even 5pm.  I have tried the rubbers, making him wash his clothes and make his bed. I have tried the bedwetting tablets.  i have tried taken the toys, movies, and bike away.  Nothing is working and to make it worse, he have started peeing on himself at school when he gets upset.  I mean sitting in the chair awoke and just let it go.  If you add the nail bitting and thumbing to the picture, I am ready to pull my hair out.  I even set the alarm clock in his room and he won't even move, like he don't hear it or he will turn it off and lie back down.  Please someone help me. I know tht nothing is medically wrong with him.  He get attention from me, so I don't know why he is acting like this. I thought at first it was becaue he father and I broke up last year, but he was doing this when he was in the picture.  We moved into another apartment in Decemeber and he have peed on himself almost every night.

[turkee23]

my 6 year old niece is still bedwetting.....she took the pull ups away,she doesnt let her drink anything late at night, she wakes her up in middle of night and nothing is working....she spends time at her moms and then at her dads house....the WEIRD part is that she DOES NOT pee the bed at her dads at all!, no pull ups no peeing the bed no nothing.....

why is that???? how can we get her to not pee in the bed at her moms house....

[teddybears4ever2]

I used to babysit a kid that would pee in her pants if she drank milk.  Is that possible that it could be something like that?  I might try it and see what happens.

[singlemom27]

I only put the pull ups on him cause I don't need to wash pee pee clothes and sheets everyday.  The pull up is a back up of just in case he do pee than we can throw this away and try again.  The nail bitting is a habit he picked up from his brother and he only do it if he is bored.  The thumbsucking he was getting better with it until I gave him a compliment, now he ***** it everytime I turn around its in his mouth.  I try not to say anything to him about it, but he will wake me out of my sleep to tell me that his pull up is dry and when I check it, the pull up is completely wet.  This problem have been going on for years and the older he gets the worse it get.  When he was three, he would at least wake up in the middle of the night and change his clothes.  Now he is five and he will walk around all day with the clothes, talking about he did not pee on him self, but you smell it everytime he walk pass you.

[singlemom27]

I set his alarm clock and I have to get up too cause he don't hear it go off and he will still pee in the bed.  Last night he was put to bed around 8 pm and he did not go to sleep till 12 am, but he continued to get up and use the bathrooom the whole time and his alarm with off at 1am and I still made him get up.  When he woke up this morning the pull up was wet. I have tried giving him stickers when his pull up is dry.  If he goes the whole week without wetting his self he get to rent a movie on Friday, neither one of them work for long.

[teddybears4ever2]

Have you ever thought about setting your alarm clock?  I have heard that a lot of people have success if they take their kids to the bathroom in the middle of the night.  Instead of punishing him for peeing in his pants, reward him for using the potty.  Many kids need positive reinforcement.  Never yell at or spank him for doing it.  All that does it scare him, and for all you know he is doing it, because he is scared.  

[skepticalpeach]

My daughter still pees in her pull ups at night. We don't really say anything to her about it. When she has an accident at school we just calmly ask her not to do it again. We don't yell, punish or spank her. In her own time she will stop doing it. I think people make too big a deal out of things children do that are perfectly normal.

[margypops]

Too many punishments you are creating an anxiety and at 5 year old take the pull ups away,  he is upset ,that why he is nail biting  take a step back lessen the talk about it the punishments , in fact say nothing,chill out,  you may find once he isnt harrassed it will solve itself ..