Teens and Bedwetting: Wearing Teen Diapers

Colin,

I just want to thank you for taking the time to write some of the most sensible statements about managing bedwetting that I have seen.  I have been a bedwetter all my life, and I have two teenage sons who are also nightly wetters.

The most important point you have made in the messages you have posted is one that is rarely if ever offered on these forums.  Lots of people say, correctly, that a child is not a baby just because he wets in his sleep, and wearing a diaper to manage his bedwetting doesn't make him a baby either.  But as you have pointed out, the best way for a bedwetting child to view it is for him/her to be convinced that the babyish thing to do would be to not wear a diaper.  By waking up in a wet bed, a child is, in effect, saying "I'm helpless."  By wearing a diaper, the child is showing the maturity to take responsibility to manage his enuresis.  He may not be able to prevent wetting in his sleep, but he has the ability to decide that he will never let his bed get wet again.  If a child can learn to look at it from that point of view, he can take pride in his willingness to wear a diaper to bed as a very grown up thing.

Hello there. I know what it's like to wet the bed and wet my pants. I've always had wetting accidents, but even more so as an adult. I've often been reluctant to invite anyone to my home for fear that they might smell a wet bed or see piles of peed in underwear lying around. I wash my own clothes, but you can still tell that they've been peed in by the faint yellow stain on the front of my briefs. Thank God someone helped me put a plastic mattress cover on my new bed, otherwise my bed would look like it's been peed on. Still, it can be embarrassing. I know what it's like.

 I have had to wear diapers&plastic pants my entire life,at first i was embarassed,thought no one would understand,but then i met other boy's just like me,talking about it made it easier,and after awhile it was no big deal.Yes'dating was hard,but i eventually met a girl who was understanding.She thought it was no big deal.Wearing diapers wasen't who i was as a person,it didn't define me as a person,i was just a boy who needed to wear protective undergarments,due to accidents,i now wear goodnites with a pair of good plastic pants.My girl thinks it's cute?Who can figuare?

I'm glad you shared your experiences growing up wearing diapers.  I was born in 1965.  I grew up poor.  As boys it was common for us to wear only a cloth diaper around the house all the time.  I started school a year late and wet at night untill I was in my teens.  I wore cloth diapers and plastic pants every night.  Every evening usually just after we would eat I was made to put on my cloth diaper and plastic pants.  One reason for changing right after dinner was if my clothes needed some washing before school the next day.  It was always that way it was about our clothes any way.  Clothes and cloth diapers were usually washed out by hand and hung to dry.  I was always anxious about the diapers hanging on the clothes line especially coming home on the school bus, thank goodness my home was back a longer lane.  You could see cothes on the line but it was harder to see from the road.  I would always try to go to the line soon as I could after I was home from school hoping diapers were already dry alwas fearing someone from school might stop over and see the diapers hanging outside.  But winter was worse because diapers, underpants, and clothes had to be hung in our small house to dry.  If you came to my house a clothes line went across the front room.  Walking in the door was always the reminder cloth diapers and plastic pants along with our undershirts.  I was the second oldest of tree boys.  Clothes mainly were undershirts and a pair of jeans anyway really basic stuff.  I wasn't the only wetter in the family my younger brother wet also. It was always a challenge to deal with being known as wetting my matress.  You never wanted kids to stop over which in my cse the only kids that did wee when I was alitte older and they were poor also.

Thanks for your message and I do feel bad for you when you were picked on, they had no right to pick on you, however there are those that care out there and somethings even in the unimaginable circumstances you will find that even boys will care!!!

When i was young back in Boy Scouts and I was at Boy Scout summer camp, all of a sudden a SUPER STRONG diarrhea attack come on me.  There wasn't much I could do as the restrooms for scouts was about 1/4 mile away.

The adult restrooms were right there but I am the honest one and like to follow the rules and the rules stated the boys cannot use the adult restrooms.

Plus they had padlocks on the doors I am not sure if they were locked or not but they looked locked!!

Anyways just just say i went in my pants, yes talk about embarrassed, I thought for sure once the other boys in my troop found out about this I would be made fun of horribly...  Started crying over the issue, and it just so happened one of my fellow boys in my troop found me crying...  I am telling you he couldn't be any more apologetic or kind enough to me!!!

plus this was like one of our scouts like my size back them I wasn't an older scout but I was quite new to the troop!!

But i am telling you that boy felt so sorry for me he helped me find the Scoutmaster and they like cheered me back up about it, I went and took a shower, the Scoutmaster told a boy to bring my stuff back to the shower for me!!!

Plus when i got back to camp I never herd a word about the whole thing...  i was so grateful and touched about the boy who found me handled it in such a discreet manor no one else ever found out about it!!!  It was the nicest i have ever been treated by a scout!!

So caring, so helpful, now he was a true scout and I was truly really touched by how he handled the situation!!!  AS he could have so easily went to and said well so and so did that in his pants and made fun of me!!  But he handled it the way i would handled it if I was in his place...

So this just goes to prove that there are KIDS OUT THERE THAT DO CARE too!!! 

So don't think everyone will pick on you...  I am sorry for the ones who did pick on you that was very mean and indecent of them, especially bed wetting...  AS that's something you cannot control!!!

But I just wanted to show you a situation that could have went easily very bad but didn't thanks to how a boy handled the situation!!!