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Desperate to end bedwetting? Dr. Joyce Mills has created a bedtime story that helps your child gain control.

Dr. John Dyckman's Five Funny Critters contains five folktale-style bedtime stories. Each one aids in emotional develoment, focusing on issues like fear, change, sleep, school, and interacting with others.

John Dyckman's entrancing creations are likely to be helpful not only to children with common problems and the parents who are concerned about them, but to anyone who enjoys a good story. We all respond to folk tales: Dr. Dyckman has managed the trick of creating yarns which teach and comfort as they entertain. They also have the ability to bridge cultural differences: his account of ''the caterpillar who didn't want to change'' enchanted audiences when I was recently lecturing in Japan. These stories are not only well crafted, but beautifully delivered . . . I recommend them most highly!

— Robert Rosenbaum, PhD
— author, Zen and the Heart of Psychotherapy
— Chief, Neuropsychology Services, Kaiser Permanente,
— Oakland, California

Teaching stories are a time-honored way of transmitting wisdom. Dr. Dyckman skillfully presents such stories and combines them with the added therapeutic potential of the trance state. His program gives parents an opportunity to share this experience with their children while at the same time fostering an attitude of relaxation and curiosity.

— Michael Reding, M.D.
— Board Certified Child Psychiatrist

Dr. Dyckman has crafted a warmly appealing set of children's folk tales, designed to assist children in dealing with their fears and anxieties. The companion introduction for parents provides a reassuring overview of the naturalistic process of hypnosis. A wonderful contribution to resources for children!

— Marilyn Lindsey, Ph.D.,
— Child Psychologist

My daughter is an 8-year-old with primary enuresis. We have tried letting her outgrow her bedwetting with no success. We have tried the lifting technique. We have also tried waking her up periodically. All with no success.

We purchased a bedwetting alarm and this CD and started using them at the same time. The first week she was wetting her bed 1-2 times a night. The second week she had 3 dry nights and wet once only on the other nights. Week three she also had 3 dry nights, 2 nights of wetting once, and one night of wetting twice. The fourth week she had 4 dry nights and 3 nights with one wetting. The fifth week was 7 dry nights (a total of 9 straight dry nights)! The sixth week, which is not finished yet, has been 6 dry nights.

I personally feel that this behavior change is from the hypnosis CD. The alarm is supposed to train them to learn to wake up when they feel their bladder is full, where the CD seems to train their brain to use their muscles to hold their urine until morning.

— Rene Gonzales
— Denver, Colorado

To the untrained listener, the children's CD is just like any other bedtime story one might tell a child, but, those schooled in Ericksonian trancework will quickly come to appreciate how masterfully Dr. Mills weaves classical Ericksonian techniques into the story to accomplish an unconscious parallel retrieval of resources that would result in an enhanced esteem and sense of empowerment in the listener . . . The target audience goes beyond children with bedwetting problems, even though this was the original intended audience.

— Kathleen Donaghy Ph.D.
— Phoenix, AZ
— The Milton H. Erickson Foundation Newsletter, Summer 2006

Joyce Mills speaks straight from the heart to your heart. Joyce is a magical spellbinder who touches young and old in ways that help us experience the joy of living.

— Carl A. Hammerschlag, M.D.
— Psychiatrist, University of Arizona Medical School

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