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4 year old keeps wetting himself at nursery!

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MoonShimmer · 17/06/2021 17:56

My 4 (nearly 5 year old) boy has started wetting himself at nursery. He seems to have a real fear of missing out and would rather stand/sit there and wet himself than go the toilet! At first it was because he didn't want to let go of a bike incase someone else got it and then today it was because he didn't want to leave the lego table but when I asked him he said it was because you aren't allowed to run in the classroom!

I'm getting really frustrated with him as its not as if he has a problem as he manages to get to the toilet every where else. I've tried incentives like a day at the beach or a new toy, he still wet, his dad has told him off, took his tablet and TV time away, we have taken a toy each time he wets, we have tried to sit down and explain to him that it's ok to go the toilet and we have to share toys and such.

I'm really starting to worry about what he's going to be like when he starts reception in September, I'll be putting a nappy on him at this rate! Does anyone have any advice please as I honestly don't know what to do!

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BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz · 17/06/2021 17:57

Have a word with the staff and ask them to take him to the bathroom every hour.

RavingAnnie · 17/06/2021 18:07

I'm not sure offering incentives in he future or punishing him at the end of the day will have any effect at all (as you have found). With a 4 year old any "consequences" have to be immediate.

As the PP has said ask the nursery to take him to the toilet every hour.

Bobholll · 17/06/2021 22:47

My 4 year old girl has just started doing this! I got really frustrated with her on one day she came home with 4 bags of washing & it was completely the wrong thing to do. I feel awful now.. she’s now crying every morning before nursery saying she hates it & doesn’t want to go anymore in case she has an accident 😣 Shes got real anxiety about it.

So don’t do that!

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