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My 2.5 year old HATES to change clothes. He throws a tantrum when we take off his pajamas to put on clothes. He throws a tantrum when we take off his clothes to put on pajamas. I have tried offering him a choice in clothes. I have tried getting him dressed in front of the TV. The TV used to work and I really only used it when I really needed to get out of the house to do something. Today I took off his pajama shirt that he had on since Monday night and he screamed for 15 minutes about the "dinosaur" I just took off. Although it wouldn't have mattered if I had put on a clean dinosaur shirt, he still would have screamed about the other dinosaur. I am at my wits end about this. There are days I just don't bother to dress him which means we sit here. Pants are slightly easier to change because I do it when I do a diaper change, so we sometimes go out in a pajama shirt and jeans. If we're home I keep the house warm enough that he's just in a shirt and diaper. Even the offer of going outside or to a park isn't enough to get him to cooperate.
Anyone have a similar experience? Posted on 03/27/08, 12:03 am |
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I am laughing but not really - my 26 month old has just started doing this.
She always gets dressed and undressed in the bedroom on her 'change table' - even when getting ready for a bath. When she starts up I put her back in her cot and say "OK" regardless of her state of dress - one arm in and one arm out - nappy no nappy - back she goes and I just say OK and walk out of the room and shut the door. Sometimes I have to do this a couple of times but it works for me and I NEVER give her choice in her clothes don't want the heartache later on. My other suggestions would be to give yourself an extra 10-15 minutes if you are getting ready to go out. Save some stress if you have some time up your sleeve so to speak :-) Also yep take him out in what he has on if you have to - not worth the fighting or the stress - really its not. Good luck 
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I had to quit dressing my daughter because she wanted to do it by herself. Everyday she gets dressed by herself.
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By choice in clothes I say "do you want to wear A or B" not go pick out your clothes (although that did work once). I wish he could dress himself, I would let him do it, but he's not able to yet. With yesterday's big tantrum I told him if he could take the shirt off and put his pajama shirt on that he could wear it. (Of course I know he can't do either, although he is close)
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My boys have a strong preferance about what they want to wear. They made such a big deal out of it, that I finally had to set down some ground rules.
Rule: We are NOT going to whine about what mommy picks out to wear. We cannot always wear what we want. The result of any kind of crying, whining or objection to clothes and when we change clothes is rewarded with a calm but firm spanking. Now I have very little trouble with them. They get excited when they get to wear the clothes they want and just accept the fact when I tell them to wear something else or that they have to take off their favorite shirt. Go old school. Stop trying to bribe and distract your little one in order to get compliance. Take charge. He isn't the boss! Children feel secure and calm when the world doesn't revolve around their temper tantrums. Both of our boys (ages 2 & 3) are happy and fun lovin little guys. But they mind too.
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My 2 1/2 year old was/sometimes still is like this. I let him have his tantrum and then change him anyway because like 14weeks said, I'm the boss.
However, I have started letting him dress himself, which helps. He may take alot longer to do it than I would but he's getting quicker and feels such a sense of accomplishment when he gets all his clothes on by himself. Another thing I do is let him pick out what shirt he wants to wear. He goes to the closet, pulls out what he wants and puts it on. That makes it easier as well. Not sure if either of these would work for you but it's helped us. Good luck! I know it can be so frustrating!
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