Toileting and Continence: The Unspoken Struggle
This guide is for parents who are still buying nappies or pull-ups long after they thought they'd have stopped, who are washing sheets at six in the morning before work and folding the wet pyjamas into the machine without saying anything, and who've stood in the toilet aisle of the supermarket working out the bigger sizes and felt a sinking sort of worry, because their child is well past the age printed on the packet and nobody warned them it might still be like this.
It's also for parents whose child doesn't seem to notice they need the toilet until it's too late, or who'll hold on for hours rather than use a toilet that isn't the right one. Perhaps your child has accidents at school and comes home humiliated, or wets the bed at nine, or hasn't opened their bowels properly in days and is now in real discomfort. Perhaps you've tried the reward charts and the star stickers and the bribes, watched all of it make your child feel worse instead of better, and quietly wondered whether you're doing something wrong.