I had the morning free today and was doing some straightening up around the house. I have mixed feelings about my children’s privacy. I like them to feel like they have their own space in their bedrooms. I’m sure they all have stuff in their bedrooms that I don’t know about and that they would be embarrassed if I did. I think I’m OK with that. I know it was true about me when I was a teenager.
On the other hand, I don’t think they have any strict right to privacy at all. I think I can go into their rooms and look at whatever I want whenever I want. I just don’t really do that. I don’t want our family life to feel like I’m the leader of a police state.
So I’m in Mercer’s room this morning doing a quick cleaning of the floors. We have a woman that comes in and cleans weekly, but I find the floors ALWAYS feel dirty and I obsessively clean them sometimes two or three times in between the weekly cleaning.
In Mercer’s room there is a weird urine smell. I wasn’t sure what to blame it on. We don’t have pets. It wasn’t a particularly strong smell, but noticeable. After a little bit of searching, I pulled back the blankets on his bed and saw the wet sheets.
Moreover, it was pretty clear from looking at them that they’d been wet, allowed to dry, and wet again. Multiple times. I pulled the sheets up and saw the mattress was in a similar condition, not just wet but obviously it’d been wet many many times in the past.
I won’t deny that I was shocked. Something that clearly has been going on for a while without me having any idea. I’m not sure what to make of the fact that I have a 15 year old bedwetter who never wet the bed when he was younger.
It’s probably a sign of something, but I’m not even sure what.
I will have to talk to him about this, but I put his sheets back to the way I found them and left it because I want to think about this before we talk.
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