there’s a thing called a “bed wetting alarm” that helps with night-training (little kids learning to not pee in their sleep). As far as I can tell, everyone who actually uses one seems to think it works really well and was really happy they did so. It’s simple and inexpensive. But nobody uses it as Plan A for night-training, or even Plan B, or even Plan C. People seem to only use these things as a last resort when they’re absolutely desperate. Like, I suggested it to my wife and she said something like: “oh, it’s totally fine that night-training takes a while, our kid is still young, don’t worry, you shouldn’t feel like you’re desperate”. And then I brought it up to my mother, and she said the same thing. And then I brought it up to the pediatrician, and she said the same thing. None of them offered any actual reason not to buy the damn alarm. Worse than that, it was as if it didn’t even occur to them that offering such a reason might be warranted. The whole experience was surreal.
I used the alarm as a little kid. It annoyed me, but I recognized that it was fair, since all I had to do was stop wetting the bed and it’d stop waking me up. It did help me learn.
I’m not familiar with that system but it may be they’re not looking at it through a lens of “doing it the most efficient way” and see the benefit in allowing the children time to learn it by themselves, even if it’s less efficient. (I often catch myself thinking about the most efficient way to do something and then realize that’s not the point for that situation.)
there’s a thing called a “bed wetting alarm” that helps with night-training (little kids learning to not pee in their sleep). As far as I can tell, everyone who actually uses one seems to think it works really well and was really happy they did so. It’s simple and inexpensive. But nobody uses it as Plan A for night-training, or even Plan B, or even Plan C. People seem to only use these things as a last resort when they’re absolutely desperate. Like, I suggested it to my wife and she said something like: “oh, it’s totally fine that night-training takes a while, our kid is still young, don’t worry, you shouldn’t feel like you’re desperate”. And then I brought it up to my mother, and she said the same thing. And then I brought it up to the pediatrician, and she said the same thing. None of them offered any actual reason not to buy the damn alarm. Worse than that, it was as if it didn’t even occur to them that offering such a reason might be warranted. The whole experience was surreal.
I used the alarm as a little kid. It annoyed me, but I recognized that it was fair, since all I had to do was stop wetting the bed and it’d stop waking me up. It did help me learn.
I’m not familiar with that system but it may be they’re not looking at it through a lens of “doing it the most efficient way” and see the benefit in allowing the children time to learn it by themselves, even if it’s less efficient.
(I often catch myself thinking about the most efficient way to do something and then realize that’s not the point for that situation.)