At what age is appropriate for a child to start controlling sphincters?
If we respect children’s time should be when available, when lifting with a dry diaper, when asked to go to the bathroom or potty seat (potty). That is the age at which children can or are able to control. However, not always the case.
Often, before a family situation that requires it, such as starting the garden, holidays, a family trip or stay overnight elsewhere, are required to start controlling sphincters when in fact they are not ready yet. At times, long before the two years. Hopefully close to three.
From this we mean when we say enuresis: children who pee during the night or sometime during the day but on several occasions, to those who, having learned to control their sphincters for some time, for some reason they stop. When, how, where and why questions are not arbitrary. If it happens to four years is almost “normal” (this usually happen if you began to control early).
Above all it appears in certain situations: for example at night or because a parent is traveling, because you will have a sibling or a move there. But when this happens regularly do pay attention and observe. If comes after four years, once the children learned, is called intermittent enuresis and late, and is considered pathological. Bedwetting may also start after a period in which the child has learned to be dry, perhaps because the learning process caused undue stress.
