Morning meltdowns 3 year old

[Mumlifeandstuff]

Recently my 3.5 year old is really struggling with meltdowns in the morning.

A specific trigger is getting dressed and taking his nappy off and getting frustrated that he can’t do it. So he just wears a nighttime pull up now and he likes to rip the sides, but 9/10 it gets stuck and he can’t rip it - won’t let me help and then this results in a half hour meltdown, refusal to get dressed etc. Now if I took it off this would also result in a meltdown!

Does anyone have any tips to make mornings easier or tips for getting a nappy off without a meltdown haha!

He is very funny with routines and has to stick to them. And I was going to try moving getting dressed to first thing but don’t think he would do well with the change.

We currently get up, come down, has brekkie and some tv, gets dressed, wee and then leave. (When it goes well)

Currently the getting dressed phase / taking nappy off is resulting in meltdowns and making me late for work and him nursery!

Recently he was poorly and had a night away from us so not sure if it made it worse, but this definitely occurred before any of those things too.

You could may be teach him to pull the nappy down like ‘big boy pants’ and then make a sticker chart, each day he takes the nappy off and gets dressed calmly he gets a sticker and then when he has 3 (or 5 for the week) he can choose a special snack/treat

Pull the nappy down like pants no? If he’s a reasonably tidy eater then get dressed first before going downstairs. He’s already having to undress the bottom half to get the night nappy off so take advantage of that and finish dressing him. I would maybe rethink the TV in the morning as that can cause issues when it has to go off. If you do allow it I would make it the reward for being ready, the longer he fusses with the pull up and getting dressed then the less time he has for TV so it’s a natural consequence and he’s incentivised to be speedy!