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On another of our holidays, one of the boys in our room was given the slipper as he had tried to hide the fact that he had wet the bed the previous day. On other mornings, when he admitted to a wet bed there were no punishments. Life could be odd as to how the adults made up the rules.īoys placed into Children's Homes and Orphanages from living in an ordinary household, from the age of six upwards might start to wet their beds as a regular event, when they had already grown out of the problem before going into care. There were many reasons why it might start, few of the staff ever questioned us in a private over the matter, some might shout at you first thing in the morning while everyone was about as to why did you wet the bed, but this was at a time when no reply was really required or you were afraid to speak out in front of others. Simple things like sleeping in a completely dark bedroom, where you may have been use to having some form of light, even if it was in a corridor. Fear of getting out of bed and walking to the toilet where other older boys might get you. Trying to follow some of the rules where the staff only wanted you to leave your room if you were really desperate and wanted you to try and hold on until the morning. In the larger dorms where only one boy was allowed out at a time, before leaving the room you needed to check that all the other boys were in bed, if an older boy then decided they needed to go, then they would go first, it might be for a pee or a cigarette, you would just have to wait until they returned. Slowly you would get into the habit of thinking that all these rules were not worth bothering about, it might be in you sleep or slightly awake that you wet the bed, there would be no more problems until the following morning. The staff had tried various methods of preventing us wetting the bed. Chamber posts failed, the older boys instructed to empty away the contents the following morning, would either threaten the younger boys from using them or empty the contents into a bed of a younger boy even if they had not had an accident. The electric buzzer device that sounded if you started to wet the bed might work if there was a boy sleeping in their own room, in a dorm with several boys, if one boy sounded off their buzzer, it would wake every boy up, later just for fun another boy might pee his bed, waking up every other boy, in a dorm of twelve, every other boy repeating this action was just a bit of fun. Some of the Sisters sent any boy under the age of five that had not become dry every night to bed wearing waterproof pants, the main reason was to stop the younger ones wandering around at night. Sometimes long waterproof trousers were given to boys, it might save the need for changing wet sheets if the accidents were minor.

#Automatically fetch art for itunes trial#

I was tried with long waterproof trousers over my pyjamas at the age of nine, I had no worries then about wetting the bed, or getting out of bed, that I was wet most nights when the trial was on did not matter to me and I managed to get a good nights sleep. Sister decided I was not trying enough and I went back to just pyjamas, and the general fear of wetting the bed. Saint Vitus was a Christian saint from Sicily.