When I was contacted by GoodNites to partner with them to introduce Bedtime Theater and encourage participation in writing "Iggy's Next Adventure", I was reluctant to sign on since I haven't personally dealt with bedwetting. But here's the thing: a) it wasn't a product endorsement but an encouragement in parent-child interaction AND b) so many of my friends have had to deal with bedwetting issues, I wanted to share great resources and information from GoodNites' comprehensive site.
Let's face it, parenting is not for cowards! It DOES take a village to raise our children because of the issues facing us!! We need support and ideas from those we trust and who've "been there, done that". Taking on the terrible twos and potty training weren't nearly as menacing because friends and family offered great advice and support.
I'm impressed with the substantive content on GoodNites' site:
- The NiteLite Panel, a group of medical and parenting experts who offer sound tips and practiced insight;
- Bedwetting causes and treatments;
- A Discussion Board which allows you opportunity to enter conversation and offer support about the challenges you're facing;
- Fantastic ideas & activities to incorporate into your child's nighttime routine {including listening to Iggy's Adventures…and writing your own chapter to enter and potentially win $2,500–plus more in weekly prizes!};
- Plus, so much MORE.
HURRY! You've got til April 15 to submit your entry for Iggy's Next Adventure (if you have writer's block or are curious about where to begin, read mine and other bloggers' to see how EASY it is!).
To celebrate all of us overcoming the obstacles that threaten defeat, how about another $175 Bedtime Theater giveaway?! To enter to win the prize pack (including an iPod Shuffle, $25 iTunes giftcard, snuggle blanket, speakers, carry-all bag & MORE), simply answer one of these two questions:
1. Why do you want to win?
or
2. Pick one of the Bedtime Theater themes (independence, control, confrontation, victory, discovery, friendship, overcoming an obstacle, celebration, revenge, social acceptance, out of control, frustration) and tell me how it relates to your everyday family life.
After you comment your answer, earn additional entries for a random draw by completing as many of the following as you'd like, each commented separately please.
- Answering the "other" question above
- Subscribing to PENSIEVE in a reader, by email and/or by following @PensieveRobin on Twitter
- Tweeting this post
- Linking to it from your blog in a post
- Facebooking a link to this post
- Kirtsying, Stumbling or social media-ing this post however you like
- Double points for submitting an "Iggy's Next Adventure" contest entry!!
There's no pressure, just be sure to comment each entry separately! Deadline for entry is midnight, April 15, 2010.
CONGRATULATIONS to Milcah for winning my previous Bedtime Theater giveaway!
{Thanks to Goodnites for including me as one of their Bedtime Theater bloggers. Kudos to them for a creative approach to partnering with writers and building a multi-layered campaign!}
Yay! I wanna win! I like independence and teaching my son to be in charge of his own body- he knows he needs to stop drinking water before bed or he will have an accident- We praise his good choices- We are not going through a problem time with bedwetting now but as a parent you never know what is around the corner
My heart goes out to bedwetters and the hard work born by their moms. I used to work at a domestic violence shelter, where moms and their kids staying in rooms containing 6 bunkbeds. So add that obvious stresses of that to a kid who already struggled with the issue, oh my. And then the moms sometimes worried to ask for new supplies or laundry help, or needed to cope with it all in that stressful time and place. Goodnights would be a great thing to give to DV shelters, just to make the situation normalized for a family. Now that I’m thinking about them, if I win I’ll donate the prize, too.
I want to win because I have never had an iPod or iTunes gift card; am always cold and would love the blanket; and have a serious bag addiction (shhh! don’t tell!).
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The obstacle that I have to overcome in everyday life is finding all the shoes. That may sound silly, but with 9 people in our household, 4 of them 10 and under, shoes are always missing. It makes us late way more often than it should. It’s a nightmare on Sunday mornings.
You inspired me and I did submit an Iggy contest entry!!!!
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I would love to win because this is a great package of gifts. I love the iPod, the iTunes card, the snuggle blanket sounds awesome, and more? Wow – it just sounds great.
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Independence is the theme I’d pick for my family life. We have tried to teach each of our children to be independent and yet to be a contributing member of the family.
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I’d love to win because it is an awesome prize package! My husband doesnt have an ipod, and the shuffle would be perfect for him for father’s day. Thanks for the review and giveaway!
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The theme I would choose is celebration. I cook dinner every night and we always sit down together as a family to eat (unless schedules don’t allow it). Every meal and time spent with my family is a celebration of our love for each other.
The whole package sounds inviting. Good music with the i pod shuffle guaranteed to have 25 good songs with the gift card and then a snuggle blanket………it just doesn’t get much better.
I would love to win this for my son who will be 11 in a few days. He is the middle child and the only boy (poor thing). I always feel like he struggles to make friends and it doesn’t help that we moved in the middle of his 5th grade year and he started a new school. He has such a sweet heart and I wish everyone could see it 🙂
I’d like to win because I’d love to buy some more songs from iTunes. Friendship relates to my family because my 2 sons are 20 months apart and best friends.
I would love to win the prize package because I am collecting prizes to give at my son’s Project Graduation. I am a co-director and I would love to have an ipod for a prize and the iTunes GC would be great!
Thanks for the chance!
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I submitted an story in the “Iggy’s Next Adventure” contest.
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We have had much cause for celebration! Both of my two sons have reached the rank of Eagle Scout! My oldest son was on the Dean’s list in college last semester and my younger son made all As and Bs on his report card. I am so proud of both of them!
Love this post, you included some helpful links. My 4 year old is still in pull ups at night, and my husband and I disagree as to whether she is still not ready, or if it is problem-bedwetting.
By the way, I bought a copy of Typepad for Dummies from Amazon, and am soooo glad I did! I’ve been blogging on Typepad for 5 years, but was clueless about so much. Thanks for the Dummies book, I would never figure that stuff out on my own!!!
I would like to win this for myself and my girls because I’d love a shuffle (they already have ipods but I’ve never gotten one for myself) and they’d love some of the other parts of the package!
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I overcoming an obstacle when I applied for a new job recently. I knew I was the underdog so I did a lot of research and practiced my interview answers and even made a “cheat sheet” up to take with me to the interview. And guess what? I got the job!!
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I want to win because the prizes are awesome! I’m the only one in the family who doesn’t have an iPod! Well… my little 11 year old girl doesn’t have one either – and she won’t for a couple of more years!
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I would like to win because I have been longing for an iPod Shuffle and just can’t afford one.
The overcoming an obstacle theme relates to my six year old son because he has a learning disability and has been trying to overcome it this entire school year.
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Hey, I would love to win the prize to use it as an incentive to my still occasional bedwetting child to work with me to stop for good.
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Independence is definitely the name of the game in my home of two pre-teen girls. They want more independence to do their own thing and yet shirk the responsibilities of cleaning up after themselves. I need to work on that with them.
Honestly, I want to win because these prizes would fill some very specific gift niches that I need to fill! They are perfect!
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1. I would LOVE to win this prize mainly for the iPod shuffle. I am a music lover and growing up played it constantly. I am in major withdrawals now because only one of our vehicles even has a cd player in it and it’s broken. I have a couple OLD tapes but REALLY crave to put on the type of music I WANT right there and then. Not only that we went through 3 boomboxes quite quickly (as they were all old) and just recently my computer soundchip went out! Like serisouly!! I NEED MUSIC BACK I”N MY LIFE! and the radio is NOT cutting it! Okay enough drama on my now quiet (no not really at all quiet with kids) life.
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I would love to win cause you have some amazing prizes in that prize pack!
Frustration is something we deal with often in our home. My boys are easily frustrated and I struggle with how to help them deal with their frustration.
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Independence would be my theme. I have three grandsons, each with very different personalities. Instead of trying to stifle their differences, the family celebrates their independence of each other. They are loving brothers, but each with their own interests and abilities, and that is something to celebrate.
I would love to win because my oldest grandson’s birthday is coming up and he is really wanting an I-pod.
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I want to win for the shuffle:) Thanks for letting me play along:)
Oh wow! I’d love to win. In my household, we celebrate one victory after another with our kids. It seems that they are mastering challenges and moving on to new stages so quickly! Whether it is giving up a pacifier, potty training, moving to a “big girl bed,” or overcoming a fear of bugs, we celebrate new victories each week!
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Oh, and I’d love to win because I would love an Ipod, and have never bought one. I’m way too cheap! 🙂 And I heart blankets.Umm – and the bag? Is TOO cute!
I would LOVE to win this! Who doesn’t love free stuff?
I think being a child isn’t ‘easy’, their lives are always changing and always learning and to reward them for a job well done is not only important but sooo encouraging for them as well! So, I’d love to win to support my child as she is tackling her own bedtime ‘no potty time’.
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Well, I would love to win because my daughter is turning 11 in June and just asked if I could get her an ipod for her birthday. How perfect would that be?
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The “other” question…
Independence stood out to me in that list. I love to teach my children to be independent and capable people. They can do so much more than “we” think they can. Heck, my 9 year old son can make chicken parmesan. 🙂
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I love the idea of celebrating Celebration;) To me the end of the day is reason to rejoice—it was another day together, alive, and happy. And I try to instill this in my children. A time to reflect on the fun we had, the lessons we learned—a time for prayers, cuddles and stories. That way we learn to celebrate the simple things and find joy in ourselves and what we’ve been given.
It has been such fun incorporating the Bedtime into our nightly routine for the past few nights<3
The kids have LOVED the theatrical story-telling style and seeing how Iggy is triumphing over the things that make him feel small. I say a BIG KUDOS to GoodNights for giving parents something so much fun to share with their little ones. We have dealt with bedwetting with our youngest son and it helps to have creative ways to talk about it that don't make him feel badly.
Thanks for this lovely giveaway!
AND I want to win because I the items in this giveaway make for an AMAZING take along bedtime preparation kit for trips and traveling (which we are doing ALL THE TIME NOW, since my husband has two jobs two hours apart–and we go with him).
Ipod Shuffle to upload stories on for listening.
Blankie for wrapping up wee tired bodies.
Speakers to hook up so that everyone can hear storytime.
Itunes gift card to GET lovely stories for listening.
and a bag to tote it all with us:)
See? Perfect!
It would make those long car rides SO MUCH MORE BEARABLE<3
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My son and I struggle with his bedwetting on a daily basis. It’s hard on him and stressful on me. Yet we try again every day. He’s a good kid and works hard at everything he does, school scouts being a brother. We know that someday he will be dry at night. And for that day we wait. While I choose Celebration as our theme a better one for us would be determination.
I want to win because it’s SO exciting when you win something. I’ve only won like 3 things in my life, and I had the best time. Also, these are GREAT prizes! I love music and I love blankets! Sweet stuff 🙂
The themes “out of control” and “control” both relate to my everyday family life as a first-time mother of a very busy little lady! She’s pretty out of control, and it’s a never-ending battle to try to gain some control 🙂
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Discovery is a word I use everyday – I have 3 children ages 5,3, and 1 and it is so awesome to see the new things they learn everyday. Everything is new and amazing and seeing life through their eyes is an opportunity for me to discover a whole new world!
I would absolutely love to win because it would be perfect for my middle son who is still trying to keep dry at night. Plus we have a big trip planned soon and everything would be ideal for that.
Independence is a key right now in my family. Each of my children experiences independence in different ways and some more easily than others. It is such a huge part of growing and exploring and navigating the world that I know it is a key to happy successful people.
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