I have sort of indirectly posted about this before (well, refusing to do things generally) but this particularly thing is doing my head in now, any suggestions?
DS (2.5) has started to refuse to let me change his nappy - he either runs off, or just sits on his bum saying "no nappy" so I can't get at it. If he had his way I would spend all morning faffing after him trying to get it changed (and then his clothes on, which is a similar story) but I refuse to do that!
So far I have tried counting to 3 and if I get to 3, putting him physically on the mat and just doing it - but he is less often letting me do it before 3, and as he is getting quite strong it is getting hard to keep him still enough to change it without using more force than I am really comfortable with (especially once he has me nicely wound up already). I've also tried choices like doing it standing up or on the mat, or before/after a story but that is not working either. The only other thing I can think of is totally calling his bluff and leaving him in the soggy nappy till it falls round his ankles, but that could get a bit embarrassing at toddler group! I have threatened to do this though (also with refusing to get dressed) and so far he has always let me do it just at the last second but it still ends up being a big stress and often making us late.
Before you ask the obvious question - we don't want to start potty training quite yet as 1) I'm not sure he is 100% ready and 2) we are going away for a week soon so it's a bad time. But anyway I think this is more about the battle of wills than the nappy, so we could easily end up with just as many strops about using the potty unless I can find a way to make him want to cooperate. Any ideas?