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>>I recently stumbled over a handful of old my old >>bedwetting charts. My parents made me keep them all >>through my childhood until I was 15 or 16. Every >>morning I had to mark whether I woke up in a wet or >>dry diaper. When I was younger I would draw a sun on >>dry nights and a rain cloud on wet ones, later I >>switch to writing wet or dry instead. My parents made >>me do it, and I never really questioned it since it >>was something I had been doing as long as I could >>remember, but I never understood what the point behind >>it was. For me it was just a constant reminder that my >>bedwetting didn't get any better. Worst of all, my >>parents used to keep the current months on the >>pinboard we used to organize family life. Every time >>someone visited our house I was worried they might see >>and recognize it. I think I was 12 before I could >>convince them to at least keep it in a drawer. > >You are not wrong. The way your parents made you do it >seems pretty pointless. Progress charts have their >place during active treatment phases, to demonstrate >that the treatment is actually effective. But doing it >for years on end doesn't serve any purpose. The way we >do progress charts at work, is to give our patients >gold stars. They get two when they went along with the >treatment protocol and they had a successful outcome >that day, one gold star when they followed the >treatment protocol but weren't successful and they >have to give back one gold start if they failed to >follow the treatment. At the end of the week they can >exchange their stars for some treat. But that rarely >goes on longer then 2,3 month, certainly not for >years. They also work better with younger children >then with teenagers. We use them in a variety of >contexts, not just for bed wetting, but if we do use >them for treating bed wetting then always together >with a bed wetting alarm. > >We leave it up to the kids, where they want to keep >the chart. Most are quite proud of them and chose to >display them in their rooms, because the way the >system is set up everyone can collect some gold stars >to show off. There isn't a need for a lot of secrecy >either as all the other children on our station are in >a comparable situation and everyone has to share a >bedroom with 3 or 4 other kids. Not a lot of room for >secrets or privacy.

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