weeing in bedroom

[littlekitty4]

dd is 5 and over the last few days i have been noticing a strange smell in her bedroom, at first i though one of the cats had piddled in there, but on closer inspection i found wee in a toy truck and believe me it stunk to high heaven, took it out cleaned it but noticed soft toys stunk of wee, i found tissues soaked with wee stuffed here there and everywhere, ended up de-weeing the whole room, i spoke to dd about it she said she didn't mean to do it, wouldn't explain why, told her its not a nice thing to do especially as it took mummy all day to clean her room and because of this she missed going for a bike ride....has anyone else experienced this, is this some sort of protest against something, is it normal or is she just experimenting (experimenting what i don't know)

It might be to do with an anxiety or worry that she has about something relating to weeing in the loo or using the bathroom or whatever. That would be my first guess.
Try to gently encourage her to talk about what was going on when she wee'd on her toys and if she has any worries about anything. I think it is a case of gently teasing out from her what is going on.
You could also try positive incentives for her to use the loo - star chart or similar.

Is she scared of going to the loo when it's dark at night? Maybe a night light in the hallway would help.

Bumping for the OP, to get some more views on this.

I think she's scared of going to the loo at night. You could try leaving a light on for her or giving her a torch. Failing that, just put a potty in her bedroom. Not ideal but much easier to empty and clean a potty in the morning than have to wash toys. It will be a phase and it won't last forever.

I've name changed to answer you because I'm a bit embarrassed really... But I can remember doing this myself. My mum had put all our toys in boxes down the side of the room and I must have been about 5 when I did a wee on them on purpose. My mum thought it was the cat and I remember her smelling it and finding it and realising it was a bad thing to have done! I had no idea wee smelt before that! To be honest I think I had probably found that there were 'nice feelings' down below but at that age the only thing I associated with that area was weeing so it was like I was investigating pleasurable feelings with my toys if that makes sense?? I wasn't rubbing up against them or anything-it's hard to explain. I also remember I did a wee in a cup- again, I was just investigating really. Anyway I was pretty mortified when i realised that it was a bad thing to do and that I had come so close to being discovered and never ever did it again -I reckon your daughter may also have been investigating rather than be anxious or scared of the dark or anything and you may well find it never ever happens again.

That's a really interesting post, Namechange.

It's definitely part of a child's development and perfectly normal to be curious and explore bodily functions and sensations, and it's also a normal part of development not to realise at times that a certain behaviour may not be ok or have unpleasant or unwanted consequences.

When I was growing up we had a huge and rambling garden. I must have been around 5 or 6 when I used to love taking my knickers off and weeing in the bushes. The sensation of being knickerless and weeing was pleasurable. I think I must have been old enough to know not to let my Mum know though.