Thirteen Different Ways to Get a Toddler's Pants On- Allow her to pick out which pair she wants to wear. Get over the fact that they don't go with the top.
- Tell him you are doing something cool as soon as he lets you get the pants on.
- Give her something distracting to play with while you slip them on.
- Make your hand into a "monster" that eats cute feet; thread your hand up the pant leg and proceed to pull the feet back into the pants leg.
- Have a "race" to see who can get the pants on the fastest or try to beat the clock (egg timer).
- Hold the pants and encourage him to put his own feet in while you make funny sound effects (Captain Dad likes the theme from jaws).
- Tell her that "big girls" wear pants.
- Tell him the pants endow the wearer with "special superpowers"; pretend child has said superpowers when he is wearing the pants.
- Have her "slide" into the pants.
- Let him try to do it on his "own"; ignore the fact the pants are on backwards and just celebrate that he's wearing pants at all.
- Hold her down and wrestle her into them.
- Let him go pants-free, snap him into pj's, or put on a long t-shirt (this probably works better with girls because you can always just put on a dress).
- Give-up and run errands another day.
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8 comments:
Now that brought back some memories.
I can relate to doing errands another day! Some of mine waited until kindergarten started!
I think I have actually tried some of those tactics! :)
How funny!
SJR
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Hahahahahaha! There are actually ways to trick them to put on their pants! Some are fun too..
Excellent...brought smiles to my face this morning.
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LOL I need this list right now - well in 8 hrs
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Funny list. Oh how I don't miss those days of trying to wrangle a toddler. Now I just say "Put your pants on" and it is done.
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