Many parents are faced with such a problem as the baby's tantrums while dressing or changing clothes. The child begins to act up, cry, break out, no persuasion helps, and the parents break down - in a hurry they put on clothes and go for a walk in a terrible mood.
But teaching a child to dress with pleasure is quite simple.
▪️Why the child is capricious during clothing
Parents can even not guess that is connected with such behavior of the child, the reasons for which there can be a set:
📍negative experience (for example, pinched the lock a chin);
📍the clothes (prickly sweater, inconvenient clothes, etc.) aren't pleasant;
📍physiological state (drowsiness, thirst, fatigue);
📍hasty clothing (it isn't pleasant to the child when he quickly and with shouts is dressed).
Not always it is possible to understand why the kid is capricious during clothing, but it is always possible to correct it.
▪️How to dress a child without tantrums
Anyway, process of clothing and disguise is an integral part of life of each person. Therefore it is necessary to accustom to do the child it quietly, and later to learn to put on independently.
▫️The following advice will help to get rid of whims and hysterics during clothing
1. A child is not a doll, he must be involved in the dressing process, providing a choice of things, or asking the question "what will we wear the next?."
At the same time, it is imperative to cheer and praise. You can pronounce actions so that the baby is interested in dressing.
2. Let the child try to dress on their own. To do this, you should select things that do not require additional effort. Clothing should be as simple as possible, without complex details, fasteners, and so on. Zipped blouses, Velcro shoes are suitable, but laces and buttons should be avoided if the baby is still small.
3. You shouldn't give completely an initiative in a charge of the child. Offering a jacket at choice, it is necessary to put before it 2-3 options that it could be defined quickly.
So the child will learn to choose independently things, and later and independently to select sets for different cases and weather conditions.
4. Use game methods of interaction with a child, helping him quickly and with pleasure to dress: "races," "talking objects," etc.
Yours, Galina Khasanova
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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