Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 1/9/2006 2:51:00 PM Author: Soon to be psychologist Subject: Past Experience (Its not their fault) Part II The child will be just as sad and embarrassed as the parent is when they wet their bed. There is a way to solve this problem, but first you must have a close and loving relationship with your child so they can trust you. They need to feel comfortable talking to you about any sensitive issue in their life. Hug them every morning and night, play with them (appropriately), etc. I probably shouldn't have to say this. Anyway, if they can trust you then they should be able to talk to you freely. Ask them simple questions like if they are having nightmares or if they are sleeping enough at night; you won't get a straight answer for every question, but that's ok. Try to get them to tell you what they are feeling as a result of the bedwetting. The reason I'm saying all of this, is beacuse a typical and common scenario is a child that is a heavy sleeper having a REM cycle "the dreaming part of a sleep cycle" about a realistic scene of themself in the bathroom peeing in the toilet, and then waking up either peeing in the bed or just realizing that they are wet. Then the sad thing is that when the child wakes up, he or she realizes that they were not making any progress at all and it was a dream, which can be very saddening to them "it has happened before". The cause of this is most likely related to the pain from the bladder sending a signal to the brain during a REM cycle. This signal would impact the aura of the dream "bathroom scene", but would not be enough to wake the child from their sleep. If the bedwetting occurred during a different stage of the sleep cycle (other than REM), they would probably have no dream about it at all. Humans have about 25-30 REM Cycles (dreams) in one night. Many people think they have only one dream a night if any. When people have an 8 hour sleep, they sometimes realize that their dream only lasted about 20 nimutes, and "where did those other hours go?" The answer is that when a person's brain moves out of a REM cycle and into another part of the sleep cycle, their memory of that dream is gone. Therefore they can only remember their latest dream, and that is only if they wake up during the REM cycle. If they woke up during another cycle, then they would claim that they had 'No Dream'. Your child may have had a nightmare during one of these dreams that they can't remember, and the fright could have made them pee (You've probably seen it happen when they were awake). --The solutions will come soon, you've probably heard them before and I will explain to the best of my ability-- --TO BE CONTINUED-- Name: Email: Subject

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