wearing gloves and boots.....refuses point blank!! and is hysterical

[kpickles]

Hey,

Me again

Any good tips on getting 18mo to wear gloves, wellys etc.

I have tried snow boots and wellys, rolls around hysterical, realy realy traumatic and we end up having to abandon ship anyway. We do the whole "mummy has her boots on" "it;s raining and your feet will get wet" and various other tactics...but no....now just runs a mile or throws a strop. NO good when it is wet and snowy!

Gloves, same again. And if you do manage to get them on they come straight back off. I wouldn;t mind but his hands go purple and he is rubbing them in agony, screaming and sobbing, genuinely in pain, so walks and the park are quickly abandoned! He cant spend al of winter inside! But I refuse to walk or push him round in such pain, he just doesnt understand that the gloves are of any use to him!! Tried all the tactics again, and pulling sleeves blankets etc over hands,,,,no go.

Will he just eventually understand and comply?? Should I just leave him be until he is over the trauma of it all and try again...OR be persistent and hope he gives in and I don;t just end up making it worse??

Thank you

K

Don't know about the boots - but how about a muffler for him? There are lots in the shops atm, or make one out of a fleece scarf and wundaweb

that's an idea....i have fleece and wundaweb.......i'll give it a go right now!! anything that helps!

I just persevered with mine and eventually they got it-thankfully! ds2 was the worst (he is 2.5yrs) and we still have the odd glove throwing incident but i sewed them to a bit of a string-makes it harder to throw away. And my will to get him to wear them is stronger than his desire to keep throwing them.
Wellies are still a bit of a puzzle. So long as he is walking we are fine-he likes puddles. Maybe you could tell him how much more fun it is in puddles with wellies on? Not much fun for us adults but sometimes needs must...

I think you just have to keep on trying, and eventually they acquiesce and move onto something else to wind you up with! For a long time, DS2 threw the most massive tantrums when I tried to put on his reins, and then just sat down on the pavement when I succeeded in getting the bl**dy things on... Then one day, he just put his arms out to put them on, walked nicely down the road, and was absolutely fine about it.

My 18 month old is dreadful with shoes/wellies (7 pairs so far in 4 months), keeps kicking them off and gloves are worse. We tried the ones with strings and he tantrumed all the way to the park 20 min walk and back again. Currently we either don't go out or his hands get cold. DS1 now 3.5 didn't learn either and just got cold hands, whether ds2 will learn I'm not sure? I'd just stick them in the back of the buggy and offer them if complaints about cold hands are heard.

are you using gloves or mittens, if your using gloves it can be more of a struggle, you can get mittens without the thumb hole as well which are even easier!

I sympathise, we have this problem with gloves too. I tried buying some of these hand warmers for mine to hold. Chucked them too but you might have more success.

mine were like this at that age

they are now 9 and 8 and don't wear jumpers at school . Even in this weather, they only wear their school trousers/skirt and a polo shirt. They have deigned to wear a coat I think only to pacify me.

Can you let him choose gloves?

and don't let him go in puddles without the boots. Say clearly 'no boots, no puddles' and then just get on with it.

it is not easy I know!

Still struggling on this with my DD aged 11! On Saturday we were caught in the snow, she wouldn't put her hood up and after a few minutes had ice in her hair! Not that she cared, so no big deal I guess, though recently on a bike ride she was sobbing with cold....

peer pressure

Have just bought a great big snow suit in Mothercare for just this problem - its cord and really bulky and dd cant get her hands out of the ends because the gloves are attached...

the Maggie Simpson phenomenon

Ditto with DS age 2 and wearing coats. He literally will whinge for the duration of wearing it, be it 2 mins or 2 hours until I finally take it off, then grins with glee. [FFSemoticon]

How about some wrist warmers - maybe he doesn't like his fingers being covered. DS had some when he wouldn't keep gloves on, and they were brilliant.

If you have some fleece, they are v easy to make - measure around arm and the distance from the mid finger joint to however far past their wrist you like. Cut a rectangle of fleece this size, plus a little for seam allowance on the long edge. Sew along long edge. Measure end to thumb joint, and snip a slit for thumb to come out.

Seemed to keep DS's hands really warm, and well tolerated

WOOP WOOP!!!

We now have gloves on!! I resolved to put coat etc on and say we were going out and then refuse to leave the house until gloves were on. It took half an hour or screaming and refusing but eventually with persistence and bribary it worked and not we have no problems.

SNOW BOOTS- They're on too.....me and Daddy kept putting our hiking boots on and eventually to our suprise he went an found his terrifying snow boots and requested to wear them...now is not kene on taking them off!! tee hee! AND he is now wearing wellies too!

Slippers...I got Daddy some for christmas, so now they are being worn too intermittently...athough they are not an essential part of our clothing list, they are cute with doggy ears!

So in the end success...and what have I learnt...not to get so worked up and that he will do it eventually once he works it all out.....there will be somehting new next week!

Success.....now please can you stop him monaing so much in his buggy, but not having strong enough legs to walk everywhere!

xx