Small Business Profile: Night Helper Watch
To follow up on a previous post requesting feedback on topics and offering to highlight members of the community, I learned of NightHelpWatchers.com.—a company based on an invention by Lisa Charleston. Lisa started NightHelpWatchers.com in 2004 after being laid off from a nursing job in a home-hospice facility. She transitioned into being a stay at home mom working on a mission – to keep beds dry. Together with her husband Carl, Lisa invented the Night Helper Watch Time Pieces.
Lisa believes that the Night Helper Watch is the answer that millions of sufferers need now more than ever, since it is the only device like it in the world. Worn like a watch, the wearer can set the alarm for multiple times during the day and night, not just once or twice, but as many times as needed. This design patented ability is important as it draws the wearer’s attention. When the alarm goes off, a special customized tune can be programmed to play. It also vibrates, while the multi-colored display lights up the watch face. The Night Helper Watch isn’t just for children and adults who suffer from Nocturnal Enuresis.
| The Challenge? | The Opportunity? |
| In America, seven million school aged children and four million adults suffer daily from Nocturnal Enuresis or what is otherwise known as bed-wetting. These numbers alone do not cover adults who experience Nocturnal Enuresis because of disease, psychological disorders, age, war trauma, physical trauma and/or mental disorders. This brief overlay describes about thirteen million people in the United States alone. | Lisa Charleston, a lifelong health care worker, mother of three and a grandmother as well, has created an ingenious yet simple solution to help those afflicted by this embarrassing condition: the Night Helper Watch, referred to as the Potty Watch. |
The Night Helper Watch gives back the user’s dignity, peace of mind, self sufficiency and control over bed-wetting problems. Used as a training medium, Nocturnal Enuresis can be completely eliminated. That is Lisa’s and Carl’s vision, to free sufferers from a life of worry and indignity. As a long time health care worker and a caring individual, Lisa Charleston has a strong desire to aid and support sufferers from a disturbingly frequent malady (that will become more widespread as the LIS population grows). More than seven million children are born every year and with Americans living longer than ever before the need for a real solution is now, and the answer is the Night Helper Watch Time Pieces, for both Medication Reminders and the Potty Watch system.
Two asks Lisa has of the community:
- Marketing How To’s
- Funding How To’s; She is currently accepting donations through paypal
EMAIL: charleston@netzero.net
WEB: www.nighthelperwatches.com
BLOG: www.nighthelper.blogspot.com/
Here is a bit from my interview with Lisa from NightHelpWatchers.com….
How do you define success?
Setting up goals and achieving them would be defining success.
How did you fund your business in the beginning?
Seeking funding help now.
What’s the happiest moment you’ve ever had in your business?
Seeing my business reach certain goals. Websites, CAD drawings , product animations etc.
Do you ever think about giving up and getting a job?
Never…giving up would be to easy… You see A Dream Is Only As Big As The Dreamer, I’m A Big Dreamer!
Are you happy?
Yes, Even when days look bad I still carry a positive attitude for having positive energy helps to bring positive results.
Where will your business be in a year? In 10 years?
In many retail stores serving all the millions of users who suffers from incontinence.
If someone who was about to start a business asked you for advice, what would you say?
Never give up no matter what the challenges may be, always seek professional advice from many sources.
What makes you get up in the morning?
Determination and the Grace of God!
Tell me about a time when what you do made a difference in someone’s life?
When many parents email me seeking advice about bed wetting and I’m able to help.
What’s important about that to YOU?
Well knowing that I can give a parent and a child a little comfort about bed wetting is Priceless to me!
When or how did you know that this is what you wanted to do?
I knew this business was what I wanted to do after I became disabled from a serve back injury. As they say God may close one door but he always opens up another!
What have you learned from failure?
To just get back up and start again seeking better ways to improve in my life and business.
June 12th, 2009 at 10:01 am
Lisa’s watch concepts are just beautiful. These watches
will make a difference in millions of peoples lives.
Good Luck Lisa and Carl. Hoping to see you watches in
stores this year.
June 12th, 2009 at 11:44 am
What a great concept! I’m sure that so many children, adults and their families would benefit from these watches.I hope that the funding is found quickly to get them to market.
June 12th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
Thanks so much Christine for this opportunity! I hope others will visit my site to see what I’m trying to accomplish. Again Thank you!
Thanks to Toni and Mindi for your wonderful comments!
June 15th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
I read your article and felt a need to respond.
I work with the Enuresis Treatment Center, which deals only with bedwetting cases. We have treated thousands of children, teenagers, and adult bedwetters, tracking all related symptoms. Our extensive research validates bedwetting as a problem caused by abnormally deep sleep, which doesn’t allow for the bedwetter’s brain and bladder to connect so they can effectively respond to each other.
In 99% of all bedwetting cases, (based upon our research of tens of thousands of documented cases) the root cause is sleeping so deeply. It is an inherited deep-sleep disorder that results in bedwetting and more importantly…a fragmented, non-restorative, sleep.
There is No guaranteed that someone will outgrow bedwetting, in fact after the age of seven, it is less likely. 1 in 50 teenagers, as well as 3.2 million reported cases of adults still wet the bed.
Proper treatment is never simple. Alarms, buzzers with pads, setting alarm clocks do not awaken the bedwetter, because they are sleeping so deeply. If they could wake up that easily, they would. If drugs are prescribed or considered to be at all effective, consider that once the drugs are discontinued, the bedwetting will likely resume.
Psychological counseling has not been proven to end bedwetting. Neither has hypnosis, chiropractic care or homeopathic remedies.
For 34 years, the Enuresis Treatment Center has been ending bedwetting for children, teenagers, and adults who thought there was no hope. Our research and experience has validated that bedwetting can be treated without drugs or invasive surgery.
The internet offers a great deal of information about bedwetting, unfortunately most of it is offered from sources that do not specialize in bedwetting treatment. When researching treatment programs, we suggest parents, or an adult seeking help, ask for references and check staff credentials. This will give better insight as to success and lasting results of a bedwetting treatment program. Please visit their website for more information. http://www.nobedwetting.com
Sincerely,
Lyle Danuloff, Ph.D.
http://www.nobedwetting.com
June 17th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
The post above was not posted by Dr.Lyle Danuloff, PhD per our conversion. This was posted by someone else!!
However I don’t dispute your comment, you do have some valuable points.I do dispute you using his name and company without his permission on my blog and here.
I have been researching this matter for over 9 years with many physicians.I also have a professional medical background. If you wish to advertise your company please do it in a respectful matter on your own time .
Thank you!
July 7th, 2009 at 1:12 am
I have to agree with the good doctor above. I have had 1 son and 2 nephews with this same issue. I later learned that I had cousins with the same problem.
I am quite frankly insulted that someone would think that such a simple idea would have solved years of problems for these children. Both me and my sister would hold these boys over the toilet while they stayed deeply asleep awaiting for nothing to happen.
If it were as simple as an alarm clock, it would have been solved in the first few weeks, when we tried it.
I think this watch is great for children who just need to be awakened and the parents don’t want to get up. For the children who stay asleep through this all, this will not help.
I can’t help but feel these watches are selling false hope to desperate parents, when they need the help of true professionals. I too have a medical background, luckily my son did outgrow this by his teens.
I wish you well, but I know this is a true specialist posting above, because this is what our family went through.
Twinkly,musical watches do nothing for the REAL bed wetters.
July 14th, 2009 at 2:20 am
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December 2nd, 2009 at 5:30 pm
The concept of watches is really very good and will attract the attention of all the age groups. I want to give Lisa best wishes for the future.
May 5th, 2010 at 3:01 pm
Sleep Disorders like sleep paralysis really disturbs me at night. I usually experience it when my throat gets dry.;.;
October 20th, 2010 at 2:29 pm
sleep disorders should be treated as soon as possible coz it has a long term health effects’`’