You know you're starting your day off right when you walk into your toddler's room, and she is completely naked and covered in poop. LOL! I know this is a common problem, but my first one never did this, so I've never dealt with it before. How can I keep her in at least her diaper so I don't have any more morning surprises? And before you say, "time for potty training," she's not even two yet. She turns two in September, and I would be astonished if she was ready to potty train.
Added: Just FYI, I don't put her in just a diaper. That's trouble waiting to happen with this child! LOL No, she took her clothes off before taking her diaper off.
Always keep her in a onesie, which she should not be able to unsnap.
Other than that, Yay! Have a great day! LOL!
Gotta laugh...otherwise we'd be crying.
I agree that onesies and overalls might help. Some kids have very good fine motar skills and are going to be interested in figuring out how things work. Clothing might just delay the inevitable ... she might just be one of those kids who is going to want to do it herself.
My boys are definitely the type to want to be independent. My 5 year old taught himself how to tie his shoes (he has velcro, but we bought one with laces because he wanted to learn). My 3 year old can dress himself (mostly) and put on his socks and shoes without help. My brother's two girls (same ages as mine) cannot dress themselves without help, much less put their socks and shoes on. They have many other strengths, so please do not think I am picking on them. Kids are different.
The potential mess is annoying. A common phrase in our house when our boys started doing this was, "Don't touch your butt!" We wanted to make sure they didn't get poop on anything or get sick. We also said, "Poop is yucky!" It seemed to help them to let us know right away if they had removed a poopy diaper.
If this seems like something she might do again, I would try to encourage her to let you know if there's poop in the diaper. Also, you could enlist the help of your older one. My older son is a great tattle tale. We're working on him not doing it all the time, but he knows to tell us if his brother removes a poopy diaper.
When my daughters were that age, I never put them to bed in just a diaper, because of the horror poop stories I had heard from friends. lol! I always at least put them in a onesie.
One time, my youngest took her diaper off, crawled into the dog's kennel, pooped, and crawled back out. I thought it was dog poop at first, but it looked funny to be dog poop, and then my oldest daughter told me it was her sister. So gross!!
My friend's daughter just turned two and has been doing this for a while. The best solution has been duct tape over the diaper or putting her one-piece jammies on her backwards, so the zipper is in the back.
Duct tape...
I'd get some Osh Kosh B Gosh overalls and put them on her for a while. They have long pants AND short pants. Criss-cross the straps in the back so that she can't slip them off her shoulders.
Don't allow her to take off her clothes for a long time. What a mess!
Dawn
You can try putting the diaper on backwards. Duct tape?
I was told by my dad when that happened duke tape. Did not actually try it but thought it was funny!!! I think I started putting onesies on him like Leah M said. Or at least pajamas that he could not get off himself.
A few things....
I do home daycare, so lots of experience and stories from parents and myself over the last 25 years.
I have had a few of these strippers and "poop-casso" poop painters (sounds like yours just stripped poopy, not actually wall painted with it? Consider yourself fortunate if so!). Solution is always the footy jammies (cut the feet off if they can't tolerate them or get overheated), and put them on backwards for sleeping.
Also, as other mentioned, do not discount potty training. The vast majority of my daycare kids in the last 3 years have done Lora Jensens 3 day potty training method very very successfully (within a week fully trained but this as the base to get going..full on potty boot camp with parents at home over 3 or 4 days using this method). The youngest was a girl at 22 mos. Most are just over 2 years old, however. All who have tried it (about 85-90% of my total clients in 3 years) WERE successful. No one who tried it failed.
Best of luck!
I agree with putting her jammies on backwards so she can NOT get out of them!
~FWIW: All 3 of my kids (2 boys, 1 girl) were completely night and day potty trained right around 2 years old, my girl before she turned 2...it does happen! Your daughter is only 4 months shy of being 2...I wouldn't dismiss the idea just b/c you think it is not possible b/c of her age, that might be a mistake?!
you never know...My niece was potty trained at 18 months. or, do as Leah suggested...a onsie.
