I have 2DC , one DS6 and DD2, also have a husband.
Our DS has been bed wetting on a nightly basis forever and we were always using pull-ups. It was getting very frustrating as it seemed that he was doing it due to laziness more than genuine accidents. Anyway he happened to have a dry night about a week ago and I think he loved the attention he got, he then was dry again and again! We were so proud of him and gave lots of praise and talked of going to get a nice treat or something over the weekend as we seemed to have cracked it. Last night was the first night he went to bed without a pull-up and was dry. So proud.
Then I was tidying up his room before he went to school and I got a whiff of stale wee which isn't overly shocking as it always seemed to smell of wee in his room, but this smell caught me off guard so I followed the smell and found in his toy box 2x old wet stinking pull-ups.
I had him come upstairs and explain to me when they were from, which apparently they were from throughout this week where he would wee, then get up and put a dry one on and then come in and say he was dry all night and he would hide the dirty ones.
I was so cross that he lied to us. I understand why he probably did as he was loving the positive attention, but there was no reason why he couldn't have just said he had a little accident, we wouldn't have been cross or anything, would have just been like "ah well we will try again tonight!" And moved on.. he seemed very nonchalant about it when I said I was quite upset that he lied and that we would have to think of a consequence for the lying as this isn't okay - no matter the situation.
So now my question is ... we haven't come up against this before where there are actual consequences for things besides the naughty step/not having pudding etc from being generally naughty in the day. I think this was a deliberate thing he has done that is wrong and he needs to learn it is wrong. He has lied previously about things where we have had just conversations about it and why he shouldn't but clearly just talking about it isn't enough. What is a suitable punishment for a 6 year old for something like this? He doesn't have tablets/screen things except the TV but we only have one tv in the house and if he can't watch it, then my other little one can't either which doesn't seem fair so I don't think that is the best course? I was thinking he would have to maybe do some cleaning or something? The dishes or clean the bathroom? Any ideas? Thank you all in advance - apologies for the long winded post!