January 2016 Moms
stephanienjer
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Toddler Clothing Battles
stephanienjer
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Does anyone else feel like they've crawled through the trenches just to get their kid dressed each day?
I work, so we can't just leisurely wander around the house in our PJs until we don't feel like it. We have to get dressed--especially since it's been getting cold out.
Birdie suddenly has an aversion to putting on a shirt--any shirt, at any time. I have similar struggles with socks, too. Some of it, I know, is her, "I can do it phase." Sometimes, she wants to do her socks herself, and that's fine, but the shirts are killing us both. No matter how many times I show her, and demonstrate for her, she insists on putting everything on like they're a pair of pants/shorts. That's all well and good, but there's no way to pull a shirt up over your body once you've jammed your feet into one of the arms.
The other night, we had the biggest meltdown tantrum ever over a shirt. (Hour and 20 minutes.) Again, it's cold here, and I am not cranking up the heat so far that I won't be able to swing the bill. This means we have to wear shirts to bed. She was mad that I put her in a Hello, Kitty pajama top. When I offered her another shirt, she screamed her refusal in rage. So then, I just offered to help her take it off. How dare I try to take her beloved Hello, Kitty shirt off???? Another rage-induced meltdown. It went on and on. She was so worked up that I wrapped her up in a blanket and sat outside on the porch, in the cold to calm her down. I'm about ready to just let her be naked all the time, but I can't drag her around all of November in Indiana with no clothes on!
I work, so we can't just leisurely wander around the house in our PJs until we don't feel like it. We have to get dressed--especially since it's been getting cold out.
Birdie suddenly has an aversion to putting on a shirt--any shirt, at any time. I have similar struggles with socks, too. Some of it, I know, is her, "I can do it phase." Sometimes, she wants to do her socks herself, and that's fine, but the shirts are killing us both. No matter how many times I show her, and demonstrate for her, she insists on putting everything on like they're a pair of pants/shorts. That's all well and good, but there's no way to pull a shirt up over your body once you've jammed your feet into one of the arms.
The other night, we had the biggest meltdown tantrum ever over a shirt. (Hour and 20 minutes.) Again, it's cold here, and I am not cranking up the heat so far that I won't be able to swing the bill. This means we have to wear shirts to bed. She was mad that I put her in a Hello, Kitty pajama top. When I offered her another shirt, she screamed her refusal in rage. So then, I just offered to help her take it off. How dare I try to take her beloved Hello, Kitty shirt off???? Another rage-induced meltdown. It went on and on. She was so worked up that I wrapped her up in a blanket and sat outside on the porch, in the cold to calm her down. I'm about ready to just let her be naked all the time, but I can't drag her around all of November in Indiana with no clothes on!
Re: Toddler Clothing Battles
Sometimes I get her to put on pants by opening up her pants drawer and ask her to choose a pair, then quickly close the drawer before she second guesses it. Doesn't work for the top though, for whatever reason. Sometimes a choice of 2 tops works, but sometimes she doesn't approve of my choices haha. So many meltdowns because of getting dressed!!!
Maybe she’ll be an engineer like me and never care about clothes!!? One can hope...