He peed on my floor! | ADHD Information

Honestly if that occured in my home there would be some serious carpet cleaning. I would have handed the child a bucket of HOT water, a bottle of vinegar and a sponge and that is how the day would have been spent. I feel that if they are too involved in activities, computer games, video games etc to go pee, then those games are no longer a question, they are off limits.You may want to search the message boards for "enuresis".  There may be some threads that would be helpful to you.  Maybe you should mention it to your ped.

My husband went down to use the computer yesterday before work and found that the carpet under the sedk was wet.  He ask both me and ds if we had spilled anything, we said no, then he went to clean it up and realized it was pee!

We talked to ds and he confessed to peeing on the floor because he was playing a computer game and "couldn't stop", so he just peed there.  AAAAGGHHHHH!!!!!

The worst part is that he managed to get his pants down, so it wasn't like he just wet himself.  Needless to say he is banned from the computer for at least a month.  We are just at a loss here.  He's eight years old, ADD, but how do we impress up on him that this just isn't right?  He seemed upset, but more so because he lost the computer than and shame/embarrasment from what he did.

Any one else dealt with this?  This is the first time it's happened and he doesn't have and problems that would cause him to not make it to the bathroom.  I'm just afraid that if we overreact he might do it again when he's mad at us, just to piss us off.  But if we don't react strongly enough he may forget and do it again sometime. 

My son is seven and has done this too.  By the third time, I was in tears and that freaked him out.  I didn't want to scare him but I just couldn't understand why he was doing it.  This may sound gross, but this is what we did about it.  He was peeing on the floor in his room at night.  I took a potty chair and put it next to his bed and told him to go in that if he had to just not the floor.  When he watched tv in the basement I put a potty chair next to the couch too.  He did use it when nobody was around, and he had to empty it into the toilet and clean it.  After a few days of this he said he would use the bathroom all the time.  We haven't had a problem since.  I think (actually I hope) he started to feel weird using a potty chair as a 7 yr. old. 

This was the only thing that worked.  Yelling, humilliation, etc. didn't. 

We did make him clean up the mess, I guess I forgot to mention that.  It's a standing rule in our house- no one cleans up someone else's mess (mostly because I'd be cleaning up everything, including the 35 yr old's stuff). 

Chasesbigsis- He's 8.  At 4 he was still wetting occasionally, like your son, but we haven't had daytime wetting since he was five, and then it was intentional, because he was mad that we put him in his room for time out.

Bethann- I think your right about the hyperfocusing.  When I mentioned the incident to my mom she said we should spanking him for being lazy.  This is what they always did to my brother when he had accidents, and in retrospect they were mostly due to hyperfocusing on his part.  I always find it's a good idea to run stuff past my mom, then do the opposite.

Nerak- I know exactly how you feel, with the hidden pjs.  This has actually been our only ongoing problem.  He still wets the bed occasionally, it's getting less frequent (thank the gods), but he tends to not tell anyone, kick off the wet clothes and forget about it until his room stinks so bad we can smell it from the hall.  We don't actually go in there because of the mess- we've decided to quit fighting the clean up battle and just shut the door.  Then of course he gets mad cause he really does have to clean his room out, just to find the offending article of clothing.

I would have made him clean it up and given him the chore of cleaning the bathroom this way he will not be so ready to repeat the crime so to speak.  I hope things are better for you now.

Dear jaderock. I have dealt with something like that. My son is 8. And twice last week he has peed his pants. I don't know what to do with him. He just won't take the time to go to the bathroom when he has to go. I guess he would rather pee his pants. It doesn't seem to bother him when i told him his friends are going to tease him. He said i don't care. My boyfriend and me are sick over this. And we don't know what to do. Once he hid his pjs and it stunk in his room for along time. But we couldn't find what was smelling. Until i found his pjs that were like that for about a month. Talk about gross. Was that the first time for your son? Or have you had other problems about peeing in the wrong spot? Good luck Nerak

How old is your son, if I may ask?

My 4 year old son, for no reason at all, peed his pants twice yesterday.  The first time I figured was an accident because it happened (I thought) in his sleep... like maybe he drank too much, forgot to go before bedtime, then slept too long and just didn't wake up in time.  Ok, so I can buy all that. 

The second time he was playing in his room.  He knocks on my bedroom door (where I'm playing monopoly on the N64 trying to hold onto the tiniest shred of sanity that I have left) and he announces that he just peed his pants... "on accident... no, I mean purpose."  So I explained to him that accident means it snuck out, but purpose means that you just didn't want to stop playing and run to the potty.  He confirmed purpose.  I made him change his own clothes and partake in the washing thereof.  I don't think he'll do it again... after all he is a guy and in this house the males don't like to lift a finger....

I'm willing to bet that my son did it the second time to get attention.... or another bath.  Are there any changes in your life.... loss of someone for example?  I would definitely bring it up to his doctor if it persists.

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My husband went down to use the computer yesterday before work and found that the carpet under the sedk was wet.  He ask both me and ds if we had spilled anything, we said no, then he went to clean it up and realized it was pee!

We talked to ds and he confessed to peeing on the floor because he was playing a computer game and "couldn't stop", so he just peed there.  AAAAGGHHHHH!!!!!

The worst part is that he managed to get his pants down, so it wasn't like he just wet himself.  Needless to say he is banned from the computer for at least a month.  We are just at a loss here.  He's eight years old, ADD, but how do we impress up on him that this just isn't right?  He seemed upset, but more so because he lost the computer than and shame/embarrasment from what he did.

Any one else dealt with this?  This is the first time it's happened and he doesn't have and problems that would cause him to not make it to the bathroom.  I'm just afraid that if we overreact he might do it again when he's mad at us, just to piss us off.  But if we don't react strongly enough he may forget and do it again sometime. 

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My ds has done the same thing, but only in his pants and not a lot. He tells me that he waits too long because of the video games. He is hyperfocusing on the games and ignores the bladder!

My son is 9 and has really gotten better, I don't think it has happened for around a year!  Don't worry, but do speak to him about it!! 

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My husband went down to use the computer yesterday before work and found that the carpet under the sedk was wet.  He ask both me and ds if we had spilled anything, we said no, then he went to clean it up and realized it was pee!

We talked to ds and he confessed to peeing on the floor because he was playing a computer game and "couldn't stop", so he just peed there.  AAAAGGHHHHH!!!!!

The worst part is that he managed to get his pants down, so it wasn't like he just wet himself.  Needless to say he is banned from the computer for at least a month.  We are just at a loss here.  He's eight years old, ADD, but how do we impress up on him that this just isn't right?  He seemed upset, but more so because he lost the computer than and shame/embarrasment from what he did.

Any one else dealt with this?  This is the first time it's happened and he doesn't have and problems that would cause him to not make it to the bathroom.  I'm just afraid that if we overreact he might do it again when he's mad at us, just to piss us off.  But if we don't react strongly enough he may forget and do it again sometime. 

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My ds is now 9 and hasn't had this happen in a while, however, he used to! His was that he would hyperfocus on the video game and not go potty. He would accidentally pee in his pants, just enough to change his underwear. I don't think it has happened in over a year. Just talk with your son.