Apart from Emily's, it also rains on Tasha's bed

We all love Emily Nyambura of the Mvua Hii hit. She is simply adorable. If you live in another planet, Emily is the six-year-old girl from Gachororo ECD, who won everybody’s heart when she presented her award winning solo verse at this year’s drama festival.

Later on, she got the chance to present the captivating poem to President Uhuru Kenyatta, at Sagana State Lodge.

Mvua Hii is a narrative about bed-wetting.

Emily narrates how she wakes up every morning to find her bed wet and her mum’s dry.

She cannot understand why her bed is wet despite shielding it with an umbrella.

Her mother goes on to console her that it will one day stop raining on her bed.

When I first heard this fantastic poem, I thought of my five-and-a-half-year old Tasha.

Tasha can relate to Emily’s experience. Baby girl wets her bed almost daily. It is so bad, the house girl tells me the mattress is almost rotting.

Now like Emily, baby girl is perplexed why it only rains in her bed.

“Mum, we eat the same food, drink the same water and susu at the same time, but your bed is never wet? How come?” Baby girl always wonders.

I have tried all tricks to ensure it does not rain on her bed. I stopped her from taking fluids late in the evening. She visits the washroom just before she heads to bed. But it still rains. Baby girl is so frustrated about this ‘raining’.

Indeed, bedwetting can be worrying and frustrating for parents and more so the child in question.

According to child experts, bed-wetting is a normal part of a child’s development and shouldn’t be a cause for concern.

The child may still be developing nighttime bladder control. Instead of quarreling and scolding such a child, parents need to exercise patience and understanding.

Actually, punishing a child for bed wetting makes the situation worse.

I remember I had a disciplinarian father who would beat me silly whenever I wet my bed. This beating compounded the problem and I it rained on my bed until I was almost ten years.

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