Over the past three months, Delanie has become increasingly difficult to get dressed in the morning. She would scream, run, cry, kick, hit in order to avoid getting dressed. Often, we had to engage in a wrestling match to get out of the house, and even then, she would escape and try to get her clothes off.
Well, we have finally figured out how we can get Delanie dressed in the morning without a struggle. Here are the rules for getting Delanie dressed in the morning:
1) The night before, pick out two complete outfits and place them beside the changing table. One outfit must include a yellow shirt. Also, it helps to make sure that both bottoms work with both tops.
2) When Delanie wakes up in the morning, you change her diaper as normal. Then tell her, "We can't go downstairs and get our milk until we get dressed for the day." Milk continues to be Delanie's #1 love.
3) If she starts to protest, we just repeat ourselves over and over.
4) Ask Delanie which outfit she would like to wear. Inevitably, she will choose the yellow shirt with the opposite pants, just to fully assert her independence. "Noooo! These pants!"
Since figuring this out, we have had minimal tantrums and even some cooperation on the task of getting dressed. We are growing tired of yellow, but I will take yellow t shirts over tears any day.
Before we learned this procedure (hideous choice from Easter Sunday):
After learning how to get her dressed in the morning (and purchasing 3-4 extra yellow shirts)
**And no, we have not yet figured out a way to get her hair out of her face!!
1 comment:
Too funny all these "fun" stages they go through, right? I am currently in the "wrestling a midget on the changing table" phase with Callie right now. =) It is a lot of work!
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