A child who wets the bed needs to know that they are not bad, they need your love and understanding not your anger. You will need to determine if the problem is physical or emotional. There are ways you can help a child stop wetting the bed. Bedwetting is very embarrassing and humiliating for a child. Enuresis is not uncommon, as many as 5 million children wet their beds.
Boys typically wet the bed more often than girls do and until a much older age.
A child is diagnosed with enuresis if he wets the bed at age five or older and at least twice a month. If the child has always had a problem with wetting the bed, this is considered primary enuresis. In most cases of primary enuresis, where the child has never been dry, the cause is probably related to a gastrointestinal problem or delayed physical development. Secondary enuresis, where the child regresses to bed wetting after being dry, is usually related to a stressful circumstance and the child will need to be evaluated by a mental health professional. Or in some instances secondary enuresis can be due to an urinary tract infection, sickle cell disease or diabetes, so take your child to the doctor if you suspect any of these.