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I read that title wrongly....Wobbly vibrating watching for accidents.

We have a wobl watch here and it's very good! Once you get the hang of setting the alarms it's very reliable - although DS will sometimes claim the reason he's had an accident is that it didn't go off (fin!), and occasionally convinces me it's gone off at the wrong time by hiding a Hexbug up his sleeve!! It also arrived within 48 hours of ordering online.Only problem is that he finds the velcro strap quite irritating, so he is wearing it over his sleeve - OK now but not sure how we will manage when the weather improves - maybe a sweatband, if there is such a thing for small wrists.

Do you think it may work to use with a teenager that won't tolerate an enuretic alarm during the night ?

Hi JelliesWouldn't it depend on the different reasons for refusing an alarm? E.g....Child feels safer when they are wetChild doesn't like being woken in the nightChild is afraid of failure and the alarm didn't workChild is annoyed by alarm & doesn't believe it will workChild feels stressed/pressured by the alarmChild claims not to like alien gadgets in bed (but will happily sleep with gameboys, ipods etc.)Child isn't ready to stop bedwetting for emotional/psychological reasonsChild irritated by being woken by false alarmsChild sleeps too deeply to be woken by alarmI think teenagers can sometimes be "sold" a gadget as a novelty, but then you risk reinforcing a sense of failure if it's not successful. The other consideration is that the wobl watch doesn't follow the conventional advice of linking waking up to the "full bladder" signal pathway to the brain. So there's nothing gained here, for night-times, compared with the 'lifting' techniques which are sometimes not advised for the same reason.If you think that a vibrating alarm is likely to be more acceptable where an auditory signal is the problem, then there are vibrating versions of some of the conventional enuresis alarms.