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Unique Treatment for Bedwetting Guarantees Permanent Dryness in Three Months or Money Refunded By Molly Frampton Women's Editor You may bave known a young boy who wouldn't go to camp with the scouts in case he should wet the bed. Or a girl who was afraid to stay overnight at a pyjama party because of the same problem. Or what about the bachelor or pretty spinster down the street, whose single state bas often puzzled you. Adults, too, many be bedwetters and as ashamed and unhappy as the mothers of those youngsters with the same condition. Yet bedwetting is no cause for shame, nor is it any longer a real cause of worry, according to Peter Mercer of Scarborough. For almost eight years he bas offered a conditioning program for bed- wetters and claims a 98 per cent "cure." In St. Catharines recently to talk about the program, Mr. Mercer said he first became involved with the problem when he worked with under- privileged children. He began to investigate the causes of bedwetting and went to Eng- land to study methods of treatment used there. In about a year he began to treat some of the children with whom he worked and soon found the methods worked. "I got a lot of medical help," he said. "And we started helping others, too." The results proved positive enough that today there are United Enuretic Service Centres in ever.y province but the Maritimes, where Mr. Mercer's program is working for about 600 children and adults at any one time. And he has books containing dozens of letters from parents whose children are now functioning normally, thanks, they say to Peter Mercer. Enuresis, the scientific term for bedwetting, can affect people of any age. Unfortun- ately it hps aso been linked to Oshawa Monument Co. 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American studies show that 93 per cent of all juveniles taken to court for anti-social actions are enuretics. Adult criminal behavior, too, has been traced back to enuresis in many instances. Bedwetting has always been thought to be the result of emotional problems, and a bedwetter given a clean bill of health by the doctor is very often then punished by parents for his "lazy" sleeping habits. Giving a child cold baths, making him wash his own wet sheets~or even sending him to bed without meals have all been used to try and get a bedwetting youngster to rid himself of the habit. Yet an intensive study at McGill University in Montreal has proved the bedwetter is not lazy, nor mentally retard- ed. Rather, he has an ab- normal sleep pattern. Instead of going quickly down through four levels of sleep and going back up to the first level, or Rapid Eye Movement level, and spending an equal amount of it each level, the bedwetter goes quickly from the first to the fourth stage, then stays there for a prolonged time and cannot break through to the REM stage like the average sleeper. It's in fighting to break through that he wets the bed. But he can be taught to break this sleeping habit, says Mr. Mercer, and this is what his program does. It takes about 30 days as a rule to "dry" a person, he said, and in three months, the dryness should be permanent. "How it works is we show the basic procedures to the parent in an interview in their home. Then they send in a report to the centre after two weeks, and we evaluate it and give them another program for the next two weeks." One third of those on the program are over 21 years of age, Mr. Mercer said. He says there is about one half of one per cent recurrence, and this is almost always because of some severe emotional prob- lem, such as the death of a parent. And he also has a money- back guarantee of success. His program has been used in institutions for the retarded and in a foster child program by the British Columbia government. More than the bedwetting is treated, however, Mr. Mercer added. His letters from par- ents are filled with comments such as "Stephen's school work has improved 100 per cent," or "Jane's teachers are amazed at the difference in ber attitude", or "you should see how much happier Timmy is now." Does your youngster wet the bed? Do you? Interested people can contact Mr. Mer- cer through Box 1034, Station C, Scarboarough, Toronto. -St. Catharines Standard Mr. and Mrs. Royal Whitfield of 52 Doncaster Blvd. ed their 50th wedding anniversary March 19, 1977 Parish Hall, Blackstock. The couple were marri Church, St. Catharines, lived there for two years th Township residing for 27 years then returned to St. C reside. They have three daughters and seven gran many messages of congratulations from friends and Learning Balance The ability to balance and develop power must be taught by using the correct skating posture. You can't do it by standing up straight. The proper position is a slight semi crouch with knees bent slight- ly-shoulders over the knees over the ball of the foot. The boy is in the correct front position for skating when he has head up, body in a Semi Cruch and the supporting leg directly underneath him and slightly bent, while the right leg pushes out to develop power. It's funny but the first time kids try to adopt this i I '~ St. Catnarines celebrat- at St. John's Anglican ed in Grantham United hen moved to Cartwright t xhrineswhier the now Celebrate 50th Wedding Anniversary wo The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville. March 23 1977 5 Section T' performed all walking anci running movements in one direction only-straight ahead. The hips, knees, ankles and feet are just not flexible enough to allow the leg to go through a full power circle on skates. This is what causes the yongster to start losing his balance just when the toe of his thrusting feet is turning outward for its maximum push. He has no choice but to disengage the skate before he falls. One of the firstjobs that mustobendone with the body is to losen the hip and that includes all the joints from there down. Unless this is done, the upper half of the body goes through some wild contortions in order to let the lower half perform. This is the first habit a coach must break-using the head,_arms and shoulders to skate. Re- member this. A hockey player skates from the hips down and plays hockey from the hips up. I think the ideal hockey skater should have ball bearing joints in the lower half of his body, like an Hawaiian belly dancer. When performing, the upper body is almost motionless, while the hands and arms apparently tell a story. But in the meantime, what those h ips and legs are doing is something else. I have some- times wondered what a coach could do with those dancers if they learned to skate from the hips down and play hockey from the hips up. It boggles the imagination. The coach who balks at teaching belly dancing has to find some other way to get ball bearing into his players hips. Believe me, it isn't easy, but it has tobe done. The very first drill a boy, must learn are designed to develop balance and flexibility. As the player masters the balancing and unlocking drills he learns to get the maximum amount of skate blade on the iceand quickly becomes a better skater. He stops skating on his toes to prevent a forward fall, or on his heels to avoid a prat fall. When properiy oaiancec, a skaters weight is on the Looking for Something to Do During the March Bíreak? 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One of the first steps in teaching the right position is getting a boy on skates to squat down on his heels with feet shoulders width apart, arms extended forward and head tilted up, facing ahead.1 In this position he has to balance on the flat of his blades or he will fall. Now you should notice that his body symmetry follows a certain pattern. The shoulders, knees and balls of the feet are in a verticle line. The moment this symmetry is broken the boy is off balance and falls. When the boy rises from the squat position and begins to skate, the same pattern holds true. The leg that supports the body weight during a stride will be lined up with a shoulder. As the weight trans- fers from leg to leg, the body symmetry will always folloW. Shoulder over the knee-knee over the ball of the foot. This is very difficult to explain to a boy but he learns it instine- tively. However, it's useful information for coaches when diagnosing skating problems. Through balance exercises skating sessions should teach a boy to develop the power and strength he already bas in his legs. A boy can't develop this natural power unless he bas matered balance. Only then should leg strengthening exer- cises begin. Developing Skating Power Power or thrust is created by a skate blade describing a semi-circle on the ice. If the body is not properly balanced on the supporting leg, the driving leg must disengage from the ice before it bas completed its full cycle of developing power or the player falls on his face. In order to develop full power a skater hs to be able to turn his toes outward. Thats when his skate is really biting the ice and giving him push. The ability to turn the toes inward and outward is fundamentaf to good skating yet it is an extremely difficult exercise for kids to perform. I have center portion of the blades where he gets the most purchase or grip on the ice. 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