Ruth Institute Blog

As a father of young children, I often try to come up with interesting and innovative ways to tackle the challenges that my children pose.

Perhaps, in later posts, I’ll discuss the wisdom of parenting guru John Rosemond, “Ozzy Therapy,” my skull and crossbones time out mat or my philosophy of “Science Fiction Parenting” (it pretty much follows John Rosemond’s ordinary suggestions, but it adds in the frequent shouting of the words “RESISTANCE IS FUTILE” whenever the children refuse to obey).

But today, I’m going to discuss a little experiment I did.  My daughter is about the age in which she needs to learn to go to the bathroom herself at night and no longer depend on diapers.

The trouble is she needs to find the door in order to make it to the bathroom.  We could not use a night light (the kids would stay up and party rather than sleep).  You know what we did?  We bought a roll of glow in the dark tape.  We made a line from her bed to the door.  We also put a small square of the tape on the door knob.  Now she’ll be able to find the door in the pitch dark.  I’ll tell you if it works.  (If it doesn’t work, expect deafening silence on my part).

(To help in ending enuresis, we got one of those alarms by Malem.  So far, it’s been working rather well).