- Getting to Dry
- How to Help Your Child Overcome Bedwetting
- By Max Maizels, Diane Rosenbaum, and Barbara Keating and Barbara Keating
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More than four million children over the age of five wet the bed. For most, time will solve the problem—eventually. But how long will “eventually” be, and at what cost to parents’ frayed nerves or to the child’s self-esteem?
Parents can speed up the clock and children can wake up dry. The experts at the country’s leading center for treating childhood enuresis—the Try for Dry program at Children’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago—offer proven techniques that bring bedwetting to a happy end. They cover the pros and cons of wetting alarms, drug therapies, biofeedback treatment, and changes in diet and sleeping schedules, and they provide friendly advice on how to replace punishment and shame with awards and praise. With diaries, calendars, and other visual aids that help the child share responsibility for a solution, this authoritative book gets parents and children over a most frustrating hurdle.
Book Details
- Paperback, $14.95
ISBN 978-1-55832-131-1
- Total Pages: 272 pg.
- Trim Size: 5 ½ x 8 ½
From the Press Room
Praise
“This well conceived and clearly presented volume brings basic information to the attention of enuretics, their parents, and care givers. Controversial issues are discussed in a balanced fashion. The appended glossary and additional resources section will serve the reader well.“
—David T. Mininberg, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.A.A.P., chairman, The National Kidney Foundation (section on Pediatric Nephrology/Urology); director, Pediatric Urology, The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center; former chairman, The American Academy of Pediatrics (section on Urology)
“A wonderful book for parents and health-care professionals alike. A straightforward, unique, and enlightened approach to children’s voiding disorders. The authors share their extensive experience, which has been empirically validated. This should be a basic text for pediatricians, psychologists, and mental health professionals. This book will really help thousands of families.“
—Mark Stein, Ph.D., chief of Psychology, Children’s National Medical Center and George Washington Medical School
“This is a comprehensive, practical, very well-written manual that is addressed to those who take care of children who wet. The text is extremely informative and is written in simple language. It makes liberal use of examples to illustrate the complexity of some family situations and how to handle them. There is useful advice galore. The professionalism and first-hand experience of the authors is well reflected in chapter after chapter. This book makes for highly recommended reading for those who want to help children with a wetting problem.“
—Yves L. Homsy, M.D., F.R.C.S.C., F.A.A.P., head, Pediatric Urology, and Professor, Surgery and Pediatrics, University of South Florida