Punishing bed wetters

I have been reading a lot of stories, both fiction and fact, they all seem to go down on either punishment, or bedwetting. In the bed wetters case, they are usually punished for wetting they bed as if they did it intentionally, i must admit that there are some who do it on purpose, but the wrongly accused always end up badly. If you child has a small bladder or any urinary illness that decreses their bladder control, they get punished for it, which ends in (most of the cases but not all): Self loathing, loss of self worth, deminishing self confidence and more. it is like punishing a kid with a speech impairment for not speaking, or an autistic kid to not be normal. but that is just me, what do you guys think of punishing kids who wet the bed?

Parent are more the problem in this case as they try to understand what is happening with their kid but some who are over stressed can't think clearly enough to approach this in a reasonable fashion. AKA they freak out and over react. I hate reading stories where something like the examples given in Cealos's post are the reason the parent puts them into diapers and/or humiliates them into a miserable state of mind. Any story or life in general, where a kid is subjected to that kind of treatment makes me cry inside and feel bad for that person. Because what if that never happened to them they could have have the confidence to be someone faster on in life if they were not weighed down by their misunderstanding parents. Now those who do it on purpose are asking for it, simple enough.

I think it's wrong to punish children who wet the bed. In fact, there was a homeless man who just two days ago beat his 3 YO son to death because he peed in the back seat of their car they were living in.

Also another note, Jonathan James was only 10 years of age when he started to wet his bed, his parents denied him water for a week and now the poor boy lies 6 feet under. the report also said that the parents (who are now in jail for intended man-slaughter) had denied him water for stealing his brother's guitar strings. but the punishment of denying water fits the 'crime' of wetting the bed

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2263421/Jonathan-James-10-dies-thirst-parents-withold-water-bedwetting-punishment.html

I think it's wrong to punish children who wet the bed. In fact, there was a homeless man who just two days ago beat his 3 YO son to death because he peed in the back seat of their car they were living in.

Also another note, Jonathan James was only 10 years of age when he started to wet his bed, his parents deniedhim water for a week and now the poor boy lies 6 feet under. the report also said that the parents (who are now in jail for inteded man-slaughter) had denied him water fo stealing his brother's guitar strings. but the punishment of denying water fits the 'crime' of wetting the bed

My faith in humanity is so vary low. I almost have none. I need to read/watch something to resort some of it.

I started wetting the bed as a teen, and it wasn't necessarily punishment, but obviously the solution was diapers. or pullups to be exact at night time.. and they weren't a secret. if I had company over I still wore at night and mom would check and change them in the morning like any other day.. as a teen this was a bit embarrassing at times

I was a bed wetter until 12. As were my cousins, father, uncles, and aunts. It was genetic.

We were diapered in cloth diapers and plastic pants.

NEVER were any of us punished or even made fun of for that matter.

I have been diapered by almost every relative I had. Most of the time it was my sister who is 23 months older. My other sister is nine years younger and I diapered her every night from the time she was one until she was nine and I left home for the military.

If you wanted out of diapers you had to be dry for two weeks then you got training pants.

If you kept them dry for a month you graduated to regular PJ's.

Most of us were out of diapers as puberty set in. Boys about age12 and girls age 10

I was punished as a kid for my constant bedwetting. Having my face rubbed in my wet bed and being told you'll be sleeping in that stinking wet bed until I decide to change the sheets which was usually a few days later. I always stank of pee as a kid because I couldn't have a bath following wetting the bed.

I was punished at my first boarding school when I was 8. the Matron would come in each morning and pull the bedclothes back, then me out of bed, slap my wet bottom and send me for a cold bath taking my wet sheets with me. Once she caned me for trying to hide the fact that I had been wet. I think she was probably a sadist but at the time I thought I deserved to be punished as I think I believed that, although I could not control it, wetting was in some way "naughty" and my fault. Of course her treatment made the bullying I got from the boys legitimate - in the phrase later to be come current it institutionalised the contempt and bullying. It was not until I was 13 and went to my next school where the Housemaster's wife was the matron that things got so much better. They had very young children and she suggested I should wear nappies and plastic pants which she would wash with her children's. She showed me how to fold them - they were square Terry towelling ones - but, much to my regret, did not ever put me in them. They were not a punishment but a blessed relief and she conspired with me to keep the fact that I was wetting at night secret from all the other boys and even from her husband as far as I knew at the time. I still think of all her kindliness with gratitude and of the earlier Matron with real loathing.