When did you child start dressing themselves?

[Jackshouse]

DD is 2 and 3/4 yrs and can dress herself but won’t. Mornings are generally turning into a nightmare as she avoids it even if I’m doing it. She generally doesn’t like transitions.

I need to get her used to dressed herself because she is old enough and her sibling is due in August.

Haha KatharinaRosalie sounds just like my 3 year old!

@KatharinaRosalie your child is my new style icon

They are all different. My 1st was 2.5 years, my 2nd was 3.2 years. They are very different characters. Both wanted to do it themselves and I leave their clothes folded in their room so they can just get on with getting dressed when they get up. I let them choose their clothes so they have an element of control which I think also helps. Good luck OP.

Thanks everyone.

I would be happy if let me dress her but she won’t. I warm her clothes on the radiator, make it into a game etc but it’s just not working. She doesn’t wear PJs and will happily stay naked all day. Maybe it’s a sensory thing. Either way mornings have become ridiculous even eating breakfast takes over an hour and she waits over an hour to have her morning wee.

Time for a new action plan. I have made her a star chart, I think we will have braakfast in the kitchen rather than the playroom. She seems to be having a lay in today so let’s hope we can get out the house in a timely manner today.

My 3 year old was a pita about getting dressed himself when I knew he could do it so we swapped to getting dressed before he could have breakfast as he's very food orientated. It helps he's not a very messy eater though.

She is also being a pita about breakfast.

Mine was a nudist until I got her this fish t-shirt.

It's the only item of clothing she has ever asked for. She went out of her way to request it. She held onto it on the way to the check out. She even slept in it, and normally all the pyjamas come off as soon as I leave her room (unless I did the poppers up the back sleepsuit trick but that was risky for midnight potty trips).

The (ordinary, boy's, greyish blue, non cartoony, almost drab) fish t shirt changed everything. After that she gained an interest in clothes and chooses her outfits very ... Creatively. And very, very seriously.

My toddler is Uber independent. She gets great pride and joy in doing things for herself (and is a total pain in the arse when she won't accept helping in doing something she can't). She has been trying to dress herself since she was 2 and a half. Now she does a pretty good job of it (3.5), even tights. Just make a race out of it and that seems to speed things up. Also don't buy any clothes they can't manage themselves. It has made the mornings much easier.

Ohh I bought a set of egg timers from amazon, any time I need anything done to a particular schedule out they come.

She lives in T-shirt’s and leggings and finds the egg timers stressful.

@Belleende it took me about 3 minutes to realise you weren't saying that your DD has never used an Uber!!