Hi everyone,
My 22 month old daughter has started giving me trouble with her clothes. In the morning she doesn't want me to take her pajamas off. For example this morning, I tried to take her pajama top off. She started crying and pulling out and screaming shirt. I got it off and she grabbed and tried to put it back on. I tried to put on the top I wanted her to wear, but she wouldn't let me and she threw it away. I waited a few minutes and tried again with the shirt. No luck. I got a new outfit and she finally let me put it out. She wouldn't however let me take her socks off, so she wore her socks with sandals. Any suggestions for making this process easier? This is just one example of what I go through with her.
Thanks for your help everyone. I have started letting Sienna choose her own clothes. This has helped somewhat but today she wanted to wear a skirt even though it was pretty chilly outside. I let her wear it anyway and took a pair of pants to her daycare. I asked them to try and change her into the pants later on in the day. Hopefully they had better luck.
my daughter is 10 and guess what .. we are at that same place.. what she should wear. I think this she thinks that.
I think laying out the clothes the night before seems to be the best way to go though.. at least then they are not fussy and cranky, and are more agreeable.
So definantely give her choices or have her pick out her outfit at night. Or if that doesn't work have her wear pj's that look like clothes. I know that is not ideal but if she doesn't like picking out her own clothes you could let her sleep in cotton leggings and cotton shirts that could be daywear outfits. When my daugher was 4 and my son was 1 and I had to run to drop her off at school I would dress my son in cotton sweats and tops so I didnt' have to change him in the am. He didn't look like he was in pjs when I dropped off my daughter and he was able to sleep about 20min more.Good luck.
Hi G.,
I totally feel your pain. My son will be 2 on Wednesday and has been giving me trouble about this for the past few months and I hate to say it but it's been getting worse. I dread mornings and evenings when it's time to to change clothes. So far I haven't found any solutions that work for us. I've tried changing dressing locations, allowing him to pick out his own clothes, telling him that if he wants to go for a walk, he has to get dressed first.... on rare occasions he'll comply, but for the most part it generally becomes a crying/wrestling match and it's really difficult and challenging to bear. I'll be looking forward to seeing what kind of responses you get. But, I just wanted to let you know that you're not alone! good luck!
Perhaps you could involve your daughter in the clothes selection process. Maybe she would be more into it if she's the one making the selection. Good luck!
Why don't you try making it as a game for her. Also letting her pick out some of her clothes were make her like she is able to make her own decisions. Giving choices always works out well! Good Luck!
