Bed Wetting

[Skater Bubbles]

I have had a few run ins with bed wetting and came up with a pretty good solution to keep kids from being made fun of and to keep the other campers from even knowing. So when you notice that a camper has wet the bed what you do is take a gatorade or a water bottle and walk past your campers bed and and "accidently" spill soem on them and make sure that the other campers see. Then this gives you an excuss to take their bedding and get it washed and you can have them go take a shower and you can take tehir wet clothes to wash also. This way the other campers think that they you are a klutz and nothing else. And the wet camper knows what you did and appreciates it. It has worked every time I have done it!

[collissimon]

We have a fair bit of bed wetting, because I think a lot of the kids medication means they sleep deeply and turns off the natural triggers that wake you up.

What I usually do is wait behind till the kids have gone down to breakfast, then strip and change the bed then. This means that no-one else knows, and they don't feel like a social leper.

I had a kid the other year who's parents had sent him with some disposable underwear to wear at night. We kept them in my cubby out of sight, and he used to get changed into them in the toilet stall out the way. One of the kids found them about 10 days in, but they were all really good about it. I think one kid tried to make fun of him, but all the others rallied round him and told the other kid off: it was quite sweet to watch! I suppose a lot of the kids have been pushed aside at school and stuff, so know how it feels in one way or another.

[CAMPFRIEND]

When I was a counselor a long about ten year ago, I was with the 7 year olds. I had 12 kids in my cabin and 11 were bed wetters. I used to get them all up two times a night and take them out side and let them pee on a tree. I went two weeks with out sleep and without a wet bed!!!
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[ocean]

We had one girl who would wet her bed and in the middle of the night change her clothes and in the morning not remember what happend.

[camplover86]

We don't have a huge problem with bed wetting at our camp. 1. because our youngest girls are 9 and 2. because we have a program called Night owls, Two staff members go around camp from midnight until 5 and check on girls pick up trash and fill water coolers. They have a notebook with the tent rosters in it, if a unit has a bed wetter then they wake them up and ask them if they have to go to the bathroom.
If it does happen, we remove the bedding in the morning after the girls go to breakfast.
One session i had a girl who wet her pants A LOT! she was 9 and would get busy doing something and forget to go to lat. We made sure to take lots of bathroom breaks and ask her a lot!

[who_stole_my_loofa]

At my camp we supply sheets so we always keep extra sets in the cabin in case of bed wetting. The kids know that if they wet the bed they are supposed to wake us up and for the most part they never try to hide it from us. We also know pretty much who the bed wetters are because their parents put it on their i-files. So like when they wet the bed they wake us up in the middle of the night and we change their sheets and put all the wet stuff in a plastic bag, tie it off and put it under the porch. The kid can go back to sleep in clean sheets and in the morning when the kids walk to breakfast we take the bag from under the porch to the laundry drop off/pick up place.

Loofa

[CAMPFRIEND]

I don't have a problem with beds, but we do have campers who wet their pants. I love 5 year olds!
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[Skater Bubbles]

but loofa what do you do with their smelly wet clothes, and don't the campers smell too?

[who_stole_my_loofa]

It goes in the plastic bag with the sheets and under the porch. The kids thing that you are throwing out trash when you take it out of the cabin so they don't realize what it is. Since it's under the cabin and not in the cabin it doesn't smell.

[CAMPFRIEND]

You have to love the campers who hide their clothes and don't tell you. What a smell during the summer.
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[collissimon]

I had a kid this year during mini, who was pooping his pants and hiding it in his laundry bag. We found them after almost a week: it was not nice to say the least!

[CAMPFRIEND]

You have to love the little campers. I am happy that I get to send them home every night. Funny storie. This summer I had a 6 year old who pooped his pants. He told me and as I was walking him to the bathroom to help him get changed the poop fell out the leg of his pants. The funny part was when it hit the ground he looked at it and said "Oh crap!" The look on his face was so funny!

That is my little storie for the day.
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[camper]

haha campfriend thats funny in a gross way...the other stories are just plain gross lol. we have had a few bedwetters before and the way it works is that the counselors alternate checking the beds of the bedwetters on the way up to the mess hall after lineup in the morning, and if they need to they'll change the sheets so the other kids never even know what happened after breakfast.