Most parents have, at some time, been woken up by those words in the middle of the night. However, she states, bed-wetting continues for 10 percent of children at age 8 and two percent between ages 12 to 14. Most often, it is a sign of nothing more than physiological development and is not an indication of an emotional problem.
Children vary widely in their capacity to hold urine.
Make sure your child urinates right before going to bed. Later, before you go to bed, take your child to the bathroom and have him or her urinate again. If your child does wet the bed, keep in mind that it is an event out of his or her control. If bed-wetting is severly upsetting to you or your child, speak with the child's doctor. Parental anger or social ostracism by peers can be a blow to a child's self esteem.