DRY TIME Dear Parent(s), CONGRATULATIONS, you purchased DRY TIME, the complete guide to ending all types of incontinence found in children. This package contains traditional methods of correcting bed- wetting, daytime wetting and night and day messing as well. Our traditional methods are extremely effective and have been used for many decades with very high success rates. We don't believe these methods will stop the problem overnight, however, most cases are ended within a couple of months. 80 percent of children who have incontinent problems are boys so from here we will refer to the child as he or him. DO NOT USE OUR METHODS ON ANY CHILDREN WHO ARE PHYSICALLY OR MENTALLY HANDICAPPED or UMDER THE AGE OF FOUR YEARS OF AGE!! Our methods do not work for children under the age of 4 years old because they are still considered toddlers and it is perfectly normal for them to wet and/or mess themselves. These methods will not work for children over the age of 16 year either because they are considered adults and it is up to them to make own decisions about their own problems. It is important that you be a firm parent! We believe "SPARE THE ROD AND SPOIL THE CHILD". If you do not take control of this problem it will (in most cases) continue for many years. That means many years of washing unnecessary bedding and clothing. The responsibility rests with the parents and if you do not take control who will? A recent study shows that 87 percent of all children who wet their beds after the age of 3 continue wetting into their teens. Being firm does not mean beating the child with a belt but there are other corrective methods you can use to achieve the same result. Being a firm parent does not mean you do not love your child it means quite the opposite you must take control and avoid future embarrassment on behalf of the child. You are much old and wiser than your child and it's up to you to determine what is right and what is wrong. You, the parent are better equipped to make decisions for your children. If you take control of your child's bedwetting (before it lasts years and years) you are doing the child a favor. When a child wets the bed his self esteem is usually low sometimes leading to depression. You have the power to end their bed-wetting and to possibly avoid any future depression. Other organizations offer treatments that last for months or in most cases years while they continue to bill you. DRY TIME believes these treatments aren't good for any members of the family. It certainly is not good for the child because they are the ones who suffer while the company continues to try new cures. The use of bed-wetting or training pants on your child is not a remedy, all you are doing is hiding the problem and this is the same as not doing anything. You may as well let him go on wetting the bed it is certainly is a lot cheaper. Bed-wetting is something that is not done consciously that is why these types of cures do not work. Most children do not wet the bed consciously, they do it while they are sleeping. Our method brings the problem from the sub-conscience mind to the conscience mind. This is why we have a higher success rate than many other companies. We feel the most important thing is getting control over the bed-wetting ("NIPPING IT IN THE BUD SO TO SPEAK") -that is why other companies fall short of their goals they offer no control method they just want to cover up the problem and hope is goes away. This problem will almost never go away all by it self. DRY TIME charges you a one time affordable fee and give you all the tools to gaining control of the problem, all in one package. We have enclosed different remedies to control all types of bed- wetting. BED-WETTING Urination during sleep after the age of three, by which time normal bladder control is ordinarily expected and established. Bed- wetting is and early childhood habit and if left untreated it is probable it will carry into adulthood. USING OUR REMEDIES 1. Simply pick out the symptom(s) that best describes your Child's wetting from the list and then go to the section. 2. Read the entire section at least twice then follow the instructions to the letter!! These methods have been used for decades and have the highest success rate for stopping all forms of wetting. FACTS FOR CHILDREN LIVING IN THE UNITED STATES BED-WETTERS - Wet their beds during the night. STATISTICS children who wet their bed during the night. Ages 4 - 6 1 out of 6 Ages 7 - 9 1 out of 10 Ages 10 - 12 1 out of 130 Ages 13 - 15 1 out of 2100 INFANTILISM - Wet and/or Mess themselves during the day and/or night. STATISTICS children who wet/mess themselves during the day and/or night. Ages 4 - 6 1 out of 300 children Ages 7 - 9 1 out of 500 children Ages 10 - 12 1 out of 2700 children Ages 12 - 15 1 out of 35,700 children SYMPTOMS If your child is a bed-wetter between the age of 4 and 6 he is not alone. The key to ending this problem is conditioning your child to wake up as they wet themselves. See section #1 If your child is a bed-wetter between the age of 7 and 9 chances are he goes to school with another child who also wets their bed. Bed-wetting at this age could very well effect your child the rest of his life. It is important to end it so he doesn't carry it into his teens. See section #2 If your child is a bed-wetter between the age of 10 - 15 you can be sure it will effect his personality the rest of his life. You need to take drastic steps to stop the problem. It already has gone on way too long. AT THIS AGE THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO EXCUSE FOR ANY NORMAL CHILD TO WET HIS BED LIKE A BABY. You can be sure he is the only child in his entire grade who is a bed-wetter and if he's over 13 he is the only child in the entire school and that is why it is so important you end this immediately. See section #2 If your child wets and/or messes themselves this is called infantilism. This problem is more embarrassing for the parent than for the child. I f you don't treat this problem unfortunately it does progressively get worse. It is hard to imagine something worse than being at a mall shopping with a wet and messy 12 year old. No parent would ever think to bring extra clothing for your young adult. This problem is very different from bed-wetters they need something most parents could never even dream of and we are the only company that even offers its unique solution. See section #3 OLDER REMEDIES Years ago parents knew it was important to stop bed- wetting and daytime wetting as Quickly as possible although their remedy's were extreme they did actually work. Daytime wetting was completely unheard of and bed- wetting was on average less than half of what it is today. Our remedies use much of the same principals but are a lot more conservative. We feel that the following remedies are more like punishments and are simply unreasonable. In parts of the world these remedies are still being used. Children who had a wet bed in the morning normally got a severe spanking either by hand or with an object. Moms used a hair brush or a belt and dads used their hands or a stick. If the father discovered the wet bed he was the one who would take the child and rub their nose in the wet bed. Sometimes the parents would take the child and make them sit on the toilet with their wet underwear on top of their heads. Most parents used to hang their child's wet bed sheets out the window so anybody passing 'by would know there was a bedwetter in the house. Families that had more than one child would also the child's wet clothing with the wet bed sheet to show the bed-wetter was a boy or girl. Many times the sheet would hang until the child came home from school and could bring it in. The parents always made the child do their own dirty laundry. Parents who had babies in the family would often use the babies diapers on the bed-wetters. There is nothing wrong with using diapers to control a bed-wetter however there is a limit. Parents would send their child out in public wearing only a diaper. Some children would have to march up and down the street in front of their homes wearing only a diaper and carrying a sign that would usually read I AM A BED-WETTER. The idea behind these remedies is to use embarrassment to bring his bed-wetting to his attention which is the correct thing to do however the problem was it involved to many people the child had to associate with and the embarrassment stays with him long after he stops wetting his bed. DRY TIMEs method uses embarrassment to bring his bed- wetting to his attention and to control his behavior but we do not involve people he closely associates with. His embarrassment will only be with him only as long as he wets his bed. We do involve his immediate family because they already know about his bed-wetting. Some parents would put moth balls in their child's night diaper and not let the child out of his diaper until morning. When urine would hit the moth balls there would be a chemical reaction wish would cause a burning sensation (very much like diaper rash) and this would wake the child. The child usually could not return to sleep and he would usually lay awake the rest of the night. The child normally had to go to the bathroom but the more he wet the more the diaper would burn. Children who had this done to them usually had very bad diaper rash the next day. Another form of treatment used electricity. The parent would place a window screen on the Chills bed and put a blanket over top. They would get the child's electric train transformer and connect one wire to the screen and the other wire to the child's ankles. The parents would tie the child's wrists and legs to the bed posts and during the night when he wet enough he was awakened by the electric running through his body (voltage from a child's train transformer is not enough to hurt the child but it did make them very uncomfortable) and the child could not return to sleep. The child usually had to go to the bathroom but the more he wet the more electric would be flowing through him. The parents would make the child stay in the condition until morning no matter how much he pleaded. The child usually fought to hold his urine and this kept his attention on his bed-wetting the rest of the night. The idea behind these remedies was to stretch his bladder which would allow him to hold more urine during the night. These remedies are very successful because they both use embarrassment for control however the one wrong thing they share in common (besides being excessive) is they did not allow the child to get his proper amount of sleep. You should not drastically change his sleep patterns or you will effect his behavior usually for the worse. Our remedy is called bladder stretching and there is no physical punishment associated with it such as electric shock or causing diaper rash. SECTION #1 BED-WETTING AGE 4 - 6 Many children wet the bed at this age, although it is not normal, the key is conditioning your child to wake before he wets the bed. YOU WILL NEED: DIAPER ALARM - A diaper alarm is exactly what it sounds like it is. Diaper alarms fit under the diaper when your child wets the moisture hits the alarm and makes a very loud beeping sound which is designed to wake any sleeping child. There are many types of diaper alarms so you will need help buying this item. Go to a medical supply store and tell them you want a diaper alarm that will fit under a diaper. PLASTIC SHEET - You can get this at any department store. It is a fitted sheet made out of plastic and covers your child's mattress and protects the bed from urine when your child wets or messes. This item is used for all the types of wetting and messing. REMEDY: Give the child all the drinks he wants during the day, but no liquids after 5pm then put a plastic sheet on the child's bed and every night before bedtime make him sit on the toilet for 10 minutes. Position the diaper alarm between the top sheet and the plastic sheet and when he wets the bed the alarm will sound and the child will wake up then put him on the potty for 10 minutes. Change his clothing and bedding. Since the alarm will probably sound at 2am you will want to put clean clothes and linens on top of his dresser the night before. Only use the diaper alarm twice in one night and if he wets a third time let him go until morning. Waking the child more than two times in one night will make him tired the next day. Continue doing this until you have a dry bed every night for 2 weeks. Once your child stops wetting the bed he will probably not start again. If the child wets more than 3 nights a week it is a good idea to use bladder exercises. Get two pair of his underwear and undress him put both pair of underwear on him with no other clothes and position the diaper alarm between his two pair of underwear unfold a trash bag and make him stand on the trash bag. Give him two 8oz. glasses of water and make him hold his urine for 1 hour to start. Don't let him use the toilet until the hour is up. This will help stretch the bladder so he will be able to hold his urine better at night decreasing the bed-wetting. Every day increase the time by 5 minutes until he is unable to hold it in. If he wets himself continue to make him hold it as best he can. After the time is up let him go to the bathroom. When he reaches the point where he wets himself because he can't hold it in then stop increasing the time and use the same time again until he successfully holds it for 3 days straight. Then start adding time again. It is important you do this early in the afternoon so this will not increase the amount he wets at night. SECTION #2 BED-WETTING AGE 7 - 15 THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR A NORMAL CHILD TO WET THE BED AT THIS AGE. The older the child the more serious the problem! You must take drastic actions to stop this behavior as quickly as possible. You need to take a very firm position with your child. YOU WILL NEED: DIAPERS - You must measure the child's waist and have and idea what your child weighs. You should go to a department store and try the baby department first. If you ask a sales clerk for assistance be aware they are going to try to sell you training pants or bed-wetter pants this is not what you need insist on diapers. If baby diapers do not go to your child's size do not give up, simply go to the pharmacy where you will find diapers with sizes that reach up to adult. They might be called disposable briefs. All you have to do is look at the picture on the package and if it looks like a diaper it will work. Do not buy disposable undergarments these will not work either. Sometimes, before you make your purchase the store will let you open the container and look at them closely. DIAPER ALARM - A diaper alarm is exactly what it sounds like it is. Diaper alarms fit under the diaper when your child wets the moisture hits the alarm and makes a very loud beeping sound which is designed to wake any sleeping child. There are many types of diaper alarms so you will need help buying this item. Go to a medical supply store and tell them you want a diaper alarm that will fit under a diaper. DIAPER PAIL - You can get one at any department store. Do not buy a diaper genie because it will not work and you will not get the effect you are looking for. PLASTIC SHEET - You can get this at any department store. It is a fitted sheet made out of plastic and covers your child's mattress and protects the bed from urine when your child wets or messes. This item is used for all the types of wetting and messing. RED PERMANENT MARKER - When you purchase a red permanent marker make sure it will be permanent on plastic and on paper. Red is a very bright color easily seen from across the room. STAPLER - A portable paper stapler will work just fine. If your don't have one you can get it at any department store. REMEDY: The single most important tool in ending Bed-wetting is discipline. If the child does not listen to you then the following methods will be useless. So the 1st thing you must do is gain total control. You must be a very firm parent and he must learn your the boss. The best way to gain control is through embarrassment. Buy a package of diapers and put one on him then model him around your home in just his diaper. Stand him in front of a mirror and let him see how silly he looks then make all immediate family members aware that he is going to wear diapers at night until he stops wetting his bed. The more brothers and sisters he has the more effect this will have on him especially if they are older. Use this embarrassment to your advantage, not only will he stop wetting the bed, but you will have much better behavior from him. Take a picture of him in just his diaper and have it developed. Get two copies of the picture developed keep one and give the other to your child. Tell him he must obey you or you will show the picture to some of his friends. Anytime he doesn't behave make the threat again. If you have to make the threat more than two times really show it to one of his friends you will never have any trouble with him again. He will quickly have an attitude change when he finds out you are serious. Take him to a local shopping mall with his diaper on under his street clothes and spend the entire evening, this will make him docile and you will quickly see behavior differences. No child this age will want to misbehave while wearing baby diapers in public. The child will think that everybody who looks his way will know he is in a diaper. You will know this is silly but never tell your child. This embarrassment will be a good tool in gaining control of your child. Most children will come to attention simply by threatening to repeat the ordeal however there are some stubborn children who actually must have it repeated. If the child becomes undisciplined again repeat the procedure but this time make him wet the diaper before you leave the house. This is guaranteed to bring total discipline to any child. Put a plastic sheet on your child's bed and remove all the clothing from your child's bedroom and keep them in your room, don't let him go in. You will control everything the child wears from now on. You should pick out all of his clothing just like you did when he was a baby. Put a diaper pail in his room in a place that is visible from the main entrance. Keep all dirty diapers in the pail and don't empty it until it is full. The smell acts as a constant reminder of his bed-wetting. The more you remind him of his bed-wetting the harder he will try to stop. The more a bed-wetter drinks, the more he wets the bed so it is important that every time you see him drinking you mention his bed-wetting even if it is in front of his friends. Do not limit the amount he drinks because he will quickly learn to do this on his own. 1 hour before bed time take him to the bathroom and remove all of his clothing then sit him on the toilet for 10 minutes while you supervise then take him to his room. Make him lay on his bed on his back while you put his dirty clothing in your bed room hamper. Get a fresh diaper, T- shirt and his diaper alarm and return to his room, put the diaper alarm in the middle of his diaper then put it on him then let him put his own T-shirt on. Give him some chores to do where he will be visible to other family members. One of the chores should be to make him do his own dirty laundry. At night when you hear the sound of the diaper alarm you must march him to the toilet and remove his diaper. Make him sit on the toilet 10 minutes and when he is finished, if the diaper is not too wet, put it back on him otherwise diaper him with a fresh diaper. Do not use the diaper alarm the rest of the night if he wets again just let him go. Waking him more than more than once in a night will just make him tired the next day. Now is a good time to talk about his bed-wetting and let him know you seriously intend to keep up the diapering for three weeks after he stops wetting the bed also ask him how much he had to drink the night before. Let him go back to sleep and have a good night. When the child is home never let him wear anything other than his diaper and T-shirt. The whole idea of the diaper is to keep him aware of his bedwetting and if you cover it up with his clothes he will be less aware of it. Remember parents who keep their children's bed-wetting quiet are responsible when the child continues to bed-wet for many more years. The whole reason you are going through with this is to stop him as quickly as possible. Hang a calendar (one with block for each day) in his bed room visible from the main entrance. If he wet his diaper during the night mark the calendar WET in big bold letters with a red permanent marker. At this time remind him that he will be in diapers at least three more weeks. After he has stopped wetting completely do not remove the calendar, keep it hanging in his bedroom until it runs out because every time his looks at it he will remember what he went through and he will try harder not to repeat it. Your child is school age so during summer break in the mornings leave his night diaper and T-shirt on him and have him join the family for breakfast at the breakfast table. If his diaper is wet start a family discussion about his bed- wetting. Do not change the child until noon unless his diaper begins to leak. On WEEKENDS keep him at home in just his diapers and T-shirt all day. Give him plenty of water and foods high in fiber so he will wet and mess in his diaper. Do not let him use the toilet instead make him use his diaper. Beware at this age your child is clever and will realize that he can untape his diaper to use the bathroom when your not around. There is a simple remedy, when you put his diaper on him pull it snug before you tape the ends. Then staple the tapes to the diaper on both sides and take your red marker and draw a line from the tape to the diaper this way if he unfastens the tapes he will not be able to match the staple holes and the red line from the marker. Write the day of the week on the back of his diaper so if he switches the entire diaper he will not be able to copy your handwriting. Tell the child is he removes his diaper you will show his diaper photo to his friends. You must show the photo if he does remove the diaper or the next time you use the threat he will not listen. When school is in session your child will stop wetting the bed a lot faster than he would during the summer. Treat the weekends the same way as above but treat the school days a little different. On school mornings keep him in his night diaper and T-shirt until after breakfast. If he did not wet his diaper at all during the night then 10 minutes before he has to leave for school take him to his room and give him his clean clothes and let him get dressed. Make sure he puts his diaper in the pail. Do not let him wash or use the toilet just send him to school as he is. He will have to hold his urine until he gets to school which will help with his bladder exercise. If his diaper is wet on a school morning then do the same as above except 5 minutes before he has to leave take him to his room and remove his T-shirt. Check his diaper and if it is not too wet unfasten the tapes and pull them snug. If the diaper is too wet get a fresh one and tape it on him snug. Staple the tapes to the diaper on both sides and mark it with your red marker and also mark his calendar WET. Do not forget to write the day of the week on the back of his diaper. Give him his clean clothes (with out his clean underwear) and tell him to get dressed. Do not let him use the toilet or get washed up you must send him to school exactly as he is. Wearing a diaper to school will probably be the biggest incentive he will have to keep his bed dry. Remind him of his diaper photo and tell him not to remove the diaper at school. This step will accomplish more than one thing, he will be more conscious of his bed-wetting and he will want to stop more than ever which means he will try harder and it will also help with his bladder exercise. He will be unable to use the toilet so he will try his hardest to hold his urine the entire day and in addition he will also begin to limit his own drinking. Your child is guaranteed to make sure that no one discovers he is wearing diapers to school so do not worry about this. If your child comes home from school with a dry diaper then ask him why he can keep it dry at school but not at night? Do not let him change until he soaks the diaper. If you child ever removes any of his diapers without your permission invite one of your friends or close relatives to your house on a weekend when all he will be wearing is a diaper and a T-shirt and make him spend time with both of you. You can even ask them is they want to change his diaper? He will not like this and he will probably not remove his diaper again. If he removes a diaper you stapled on him then you should make him spend the rest of the day in his diaper only. Don't let him use the potty, make him use his diaper. If someone comes to the door make him answer the door no matter who it is. Your child will never remove his diaper without your permission ever again. If the child wets more than 3 nights a week it is a good idea to use bladder exercises. Get two pair of his underwear and undress him put both pair of underwear on him with no other clothes and position the diaper alarm between his two pair of underwear unfold a trash bag and make him stand on the trash bag. Give him an two 8oz. glasses of water to drink and make him hold his urine for 1 hour to start. Each night increase the time by 5 minutes until he is unable to hold his urine. Do not increase the time until you have 3 days in a row where he does not wet. When he wets himself do not turn the diaper alarm off and don't let him use the potty make him continue until his time is up. While the alarm is sounding it will bring unwanted attention to him and he will be thinking he should have held it longer and the next time he will. This exercise will stretch his bladder so he will be able to hold more urine during the night which will decrease his bed-wetting. It is important you do this early in the afternoon so this will not increase the amount he wets at night. SECTION #3 INFANTILISM AGE 4 - 15 INFANTILISM - A condition in which mental growth is retarded. Child usually begins to wet and/or mess themselves and sometimes uses behavior that was not displayed since he was a baby. The leading cause of this problem is change such as; adding a sibling to the family, divorce and/or moving from one house to another. This problem is very different from bed-wetting under these circumstances the child feels he has lost his place in the family so in an attempt to regain your attention he starts sub-consciously wetting and/or messing (w/m) himself. Sometimes daytime w/m may look deliberate but it is actually done sub-consciously and the child even though awake is not aware of it until after it is over. This is most likely to occur when the child is engaged in activity such as watching TV or playing outside. The parents think this is done out of laziness because they did not want to go to the bathroom. It is actually a form of sub- conscious attention seeking. Some children seem to have no reason to start w/m again but you must remember that problems you think are trivial are catastrophes to our children even changing their daily routines could cause them to act like this. Some children will look you straight in the eye while they squat down and w/m themselves. Other children will have a w/m bed before they are even asleep although these examples seem to be deliberate they are really not. The more you punish a child who does this the more they will do it. Your child is actually reliving his infantile state of mind without even realizing it. The child is trying to get the attention he once received when he was a baby. Instead of punishing him you should go along with it. Start treating your child like a baby when he acts like one. This sounds ridiculous and absurd but try it and in a couple of weeks he will realize that this kind of attention is not really the kind he wanted. If you do not do anything about this problem it will surely get worse. Think how embarrassed you will feel when your child w/m himself at the mall. You will not only be embarrassed for yourself but you will feel for him as well. The idea of this treatment is for your child to realize how ridiculous and embarrassing being treated like a baby can. Initially he will actually enjoy the attention but it will not take long for him to change his mind. This treatment could last one day or up to 4 weeks depending on your child. Our remedy is simply to make him hate to be babied and he will stop w/m himself. YOU WILL NEED: Baby bib Baby bottle DIAPERS - You must measure the child's waist and have and idea what your child weighs. You should go to a department store and try the baby department first. If you ask a sales clerk for assistance be aware they are going to try to sell you training pants or bed-wetter pants this is not what you need insist on diapers. If baby diapers do not go to your child's size do not give up, simply go to the pharmacy where you will find diapers with sizes that reach up to adult. They might be called disposable briefs. All you have to do is look at the picture on the package and if it looks like a diaper it will work. Do not buy disposable undergarments these will not work either. Sometimes before you make your purchase the store will let you open the container and look at them closely. DIAPER PAIL - You can get one at any department store. Do not buy a diaper genie because it will not work you will not get the effect you are looking for. High chair Pacifier PLASTIC SHEET - You can get this at any department store. It is a fitted sheet made out of plastic and covers your child's mattress and protects the bed from urine when your child wets or messes. This item is used for all the types of wetting and messing. RED PERMANENT MARKER - When you purchase a red permanent marker make sure it will be permanent on plastic and on paper. Red is a very bright color easily seen from across the room. STAPLER - A portable paper stapler will work just fine. If your don't have one you can get it at any department store. REMEDY: Go shopping for diapers and other baby supplies (if you already have a baby then probably all you need is diapers). Do not buy a large quantity of diapers at first because we offer a chance for your child to back out on the very first day. Do not buy training pants or Goodnites it is very important to buy diapers because your child will not identify with anything but diapers. When you get home put the baby items in your bedroom and do not let the child know what you are up to. The very next time your child w/m surprise him with the baby items take him to his bedroom and sit him on his bed then unpack the baby items while he watches you. Tell him if he acts like a baby you will gladly treat him like one. Do this with a very calm serious attitude. Your child will probably pitch a fit but deep down inside your child will be excited because this is what his sub-conscious really wants. Continue to get his room ready for his second babyhood. Place a diaper pail in the child's room in view of the main entrance. Keep all his soiled diapers in the pail also if you have a baby keep the babies soiled diapers in the pail as well and do not empty his pail until it is very full. Do not use a diaper genie because you want the room to smell and a diaper genie eliminates the odor. The smell is a very important tool in this treatment. Smelling dirty diapers all night will not be very pleasant for your child but it is important. Put a plastic sheet on your child's bed and remove all the child's underwear from his room. Keep the clean diapers and underwear in your bedroom out of his access. Your room is now off limits to your child. STEP 1 Remove your child's dirty clothes and take him to the toilet then make him sit on it for 10 minutes while you stand there and watch. Hold his soiled underwear in front of his face and tell him this is why you are treating him like a baby, other children his age don't w/m their underwear. After toilet time take him back to his room and literally diaper him like you did when he was a baby. Stand him in front of a mirror in just a diaper and let him see how silly he looks. Take a picture of him and get it developed (Double prints) as soon as possible. Tell him if he does not do as you say you will show the picture to his friends at school. Put a short shirt that does not cover the entire diaper on him then parade him around your house so all the family members can see him. Have the family assemble in the living room and display him in front them. Show off his soiled underpants and explain that he is w/m more and more so you decided to treat him like the baby he is acting like. Encourage all the other family members to also chime in. Inform him that the next time he w/m he will be wearing diapers full time just like a baby. When you are done with the family meeting put his clothes over his new diaper and send him back to whatever he was doing when he w/m his underpants. The first day is the most important this will determine the length of time you must go on with this. Keep him diapered until his bedtime and do not let him use the potty instead he must go in his diaper. Do not change him whenever he w/m let him wear the dirty diaper for a while. If you change him too often he will not be learning a lesson. At bed time let him take his bath and have his regular bedclothes and send him to bed like nothing happened. Remind him once again that you intend to do this again if he w/m himself again. This is the first chance he has to stop the treatment and act his age again. The next time he is w/m it means he wants to continue the treatment and you must go all the way for the next two weeks. If your child does not w/m himself within a week he is probably cured remove the plastic sheet and diaper pail from his room you are done. If your child w/m himself within a week after step 1 then take the next step. STEP 2 You will follow this step for two weeks if the child is currently attending School and four weeks if your child is not. Remove all the clothing from his bedroom again add the plastic sheet, the diaper pail and this time hang a calendar on his bedroom wall so it is visible from the main entrance. You will keep him diapered for 24 hours a day and is only allowed in the bathroom when you are giving him a bath. He must use the diaper to wet and mess and he is not allowed to remove the diaper. Do not change him too frequently or you will be defeating the purpose! TAMPER PROOFING HIS DIAPER To tamper proof his diaper simply put the diaper on him and pull the tapes for a very snug fit. Staple the tapes on each side and draw a line from the tape to the diaper. After he is in his diaper write his name on the back of the diaper and do not tell him what you wrote. If he removes the diaper he will not be able to line up the staple holes with the red line and you will know he removed his diaper. He will not be able to switch the diaper for a fresh one because you have written his name in your handwriting! Whenever he is out of your sight for any amount of time you should check to see if the diaper was tampered with. Remind him of the diaper photo you took and let him know you will show the photo to one of his friends! REMOVING THE DIAPER The first time your child removes his own diaper you will have to show the diaper photo to one of his friends, if you do not you will lose control of the situation. You must make good on your threats in order to let him know you are serious! If he ever removes his diaper again you will put the diaper back on him (even if it is w/m) and make him wear it without anything else. Plan a trip to the mall the next day. Before you leave get him to drink as many glasses of water as you can then take a pin and poke eight holes in the diaper right at the legs on both sides. Dress him up and take him shopping to a mall. Take your time and stay until the mall closes and keep him with you the whole time. Do not listen to him when he says he has to go to the bathroom. Make sure he understands that this is punishment for removing his diapers. Do not leave the mall until it closes or at least one half hour after his diaper is dripping wet. Other people seeing him wet will have a good effect on him, at this point he will probably be ready to stop the treatment but you must continue the full time. If he finds that he can turn you off and on you might have a part time baby on you hands and the object is to make him hate being babied. Each day you will mark his calendar with a red X and always remind him how many days he has left. You will make him eat all of his meals out of a babies high chair and drink all his liquids out of a baby bottle. When he objects shove the pacifier in his mouth and make him keep it there. Remind him of the diaper photo. Give him a bath each night but not any other time. Ground him for the weekends and just keep him in a diaper and his short shirt. Do not let him go anywhere, remind him that babies do not get to go outside and play! Make him wear his night diaper at least until 11:00 am unless it is leaky. If he is currently attending school send him to school with diapers on under his school clothes remember to TAMPER PROOF his diaper. If he removes a diaper at school follow the REMOVING THE DIAPER steps and the next school day send him to school in his night diaper even if it is w/m. Do not allow him to wash up before he leaves. He will never do this again. Make sure to check his diaper when he comes home from school and check to make sure that the diaper was not tampered with. You must follow these steps for the entire time no matter how your child pleads. If you do not finish you are not going to accomplish your goal which is to make him grow up. Your child will go back to w/m himself because he knows he can get away with it.