Our 5 year old with overnight sleep pants yesterday...

Last night something happened which made me feel a bit teary and helped my wife and I learn a little lesson. My son is 5 years old, and when it came to potty training a couple of years ago, absolutely nailed it. He got it so quickly and we were so proud of him. But we didn’t have the same success overnight. We did lots of research: not letting him drink anything an hour before bed, tried lifting him in the night to do a ‘dream wee’, bought protective bed sheets, the works. But he would often be wet in the morning and so we stuck with the night time pull-ups. We read online that you shouldn’t rush them for overnight and that when they’re ready, they’re ready. We’ve felt a little embarrassed for him when packing overnight nappies for him when he has a sleepover but figured this would get sorted when he’s ready.These last few days he’s proudly told us each morning (apart from 1) that he’s dry! ‘Good boy!’ we say and promised a little treat should he make it a week being dry every morning. We thought we might now be in a position to stop using these overnight pants and we were all really excited it and made sure he knew how proud we were about it. Yesterday afternoon I was changing his bed-sheets when I found 5 used overnight sleep pants completely saturated, stuffed down the side of his bed. The poor little thing had obviously woken up wet and was upset and didn’t want to let us down and so tried to hide the evidence. He’d been acting a little funny recently by taking wet wipes and sleep pants into his bed - which he said was for his teddy - but he’d obviously been changing into clean, dry ones in the morning…I welled up when I made this discovery. My wife and I explained to him that there’s nothing to be ashamed of and we realised that trying to reward him for something which he doesn’t have full control over is cruel. So we’ve told him he will get a small treat if we see that’s he’s taking steps to be dry in the morning – taking himself to the toilet last thing at night etc – and he seemed happy with that change of tact.​So to anyone in the same boat who might be looking for advice – make sure they know there’s nothing to be ashamed of! via /r/Parenting http://bit.ly/2M0SciL