Lisa,a 36-year-old mother of two, was getting more and more stressed as the holiday season approached. Her 12-year-old son Jeremy was still wetting the bed and unable to sleep dry at night, even though his 7-year-old sister Mary had stopped wetting the bed years ago. Lately Lisa had been finding balled-up rolls of urine-stained clothing hidden in Jeremy’s closet. Once she found him trying to wash his sheets and pyjamas in the sink. Jeremy was terrified that Mary would find out and start teasing him, or tell his friends.

Suzanne Somers was a bedwetter!!! Suzanne starred for many years in “Three’s Company” and other popular TV shows as well as several movies. She grew up in the shadow of an abusive father, Frank Mahoney, a physical laborer. Her childhood was a difficult one. Born in 1946, she spent her early years wetting her bed almost nightly because of the anxiety brought on by her father’s drinking binges and mood swings. She wet almost every night until she was 14 years old, as did her brother Danny. Then she finally tried a wetness alarm.

When author Susan Meyers was considering her latest children’s book, it was the title that came to her first, The Princess and the Pee. And as the story of a bedwetting princess began to unfold in her mind, she found more and more people who’d had experiences similar to that of her main character, Princess Pia.“As I talked to more people, I realized that everyone had someone in the family who was an older bedwetter,” she tells PEOPLE Moms & Babies.“It’s not as uncommon of a problem as people think it is. So I thought this book could help bedwetting kids who are going through that, feel better about themselves.”

When a child is going through the stages of bedwetting, it can become very frustrating for a parent as well as the child. Most children wet the bed until they are five years old, and many even older. Having the privilege to go through the bedwetting stages with my children, I have had success using several different tools for each of my children. Every child is different, and the keys to my success during the bedwetting stages for my children were patience and talking to my children, using real underwear and not diapers, changing my child’s diet, giving my child some responsibility for their bedwetting and even taking one child to the pediatrician after my tools didn’t work for that particular child, and subsequently having success within six months.