I'm feeling so desperate, frustrated, and angry right now. I am pregnant and I think that is very much contributing to my lack of patience and creative problem-solving.
My DS is refusing clothes. If we are going to stay home, I don't care if he wears clothes or not, but he has to wear clothes if we are going out. It is a huge fight every single time. It's a struggle just to go to the grocery store, and even more of a struggle when I have to be somewhere at a specific time (like today when I had a dentist appointment). Once he is wearing the clothes he is fine. He will wear the clothes without any, or much fuss the rest of the day, but getting them on him has been pure hell.
I'm feeling like a mean mom. I hate forcing him to do things, and I rarely, rarely force anything. Carseats and brushing teeth are the only things that I have ever had to force in the past. Today I finally just forced his diaper on, and let him wear only a diaper in the car. I did put a blanket over him and it was pretty warm. Once we got where we were going he was happy to put his clothes on.
I really think the issue is that he just doesn't want to go out. He knows that he has to wear clothes if we go out. He often tells me he wants to just stay home. I do try and honor that, and we do stay home most days, but it isn't possible to stay home all the time. He does love being out, so I don't get what the problem is. Today he didn't even want to leave home to go see his grandma (while I was at the dentist). He loves his grandma and usually will do anything to see her.
I have another appointment tomorrow and I'm already dreading the battle it will likely be in the morning.
Oh, and although I don't really care that he doesn't wear clothes at home, he does keep complaining that he is cold. He will wrap a blanket around himself, but will complain that it keeps falling off. I offer to get him some warm clothes and he refuses.
My DS is refusing clothes. If we are going to stay home, I don't care if he wears clothes or not, but he has to wear clothes if we are going out. It is a huge fight every single time. It's a struggle just to go to the grocery store, and even more of a struggle when I have to be somewhere at a specific time (like today when I had a dentist appointment). Once he is wearing the clothes he is fine. He will wear the clothes without any, or much fuss the rest of the day, but getting them on him has been pure hell.
I'm feeling like a mean mom. I hate forcing him to do things, and I rarely, rarely force anything. Carseats and brushing teeth are the only things that I have ever had to force in the past. Today I finally just forced his diaper on, and let him wear only a diaper in the car. I did put a blanket over him and it was pretty warm. Once we got where we were going he was happy to put his clothes on.
I really think the issue is that he just doesn't want to go out. He knows that he has to wear clothes if we go out. He often tells me he wants to just stay home. I do try and honor that, and we do stay home most days, but it isn't possible to stay home all the time. He does love being out, so I don't get what the problem is. Today he didn't even want to leave home to go see his grandma (while I was at the dentist). He loves his grandma and usually will do anything to see her.
I have another appointment tomorrow and I'm already dreading the battle it will likely be in the morning.
Oh, and although I don't really care that he doesn't wear clothes at home, he does keep complaining that he is cold. He will wrap a blanket around himself, but will complain that it keeps falling off. I offer to get him some warm clothes and he refuses.
. Maybe it's just a coincidence but this mostly started after we got here- though he's always been a little nudist- so I can only assume it has something to do with our move.
I mean, the kid doesn't want to go to the park, wth?
and eventually it will work even though he's never happy about it and still cries and freaks out and by the time I'm all done with the production I'm so drained and on edge that I don't even feel like leaving the house anymore, but yesterday I just didn't have it in me so at one point I actually said "If you don't help me get you dressed I'll leave without you and leave you here by yourself because I have to go do this". Yeah. Good times. Not my proudest parenting moment at all but my head was seriously about to 
. This was a last minute thing and it had to be done for our house to close. At least he didn't cry after I said it but he must have known I'd reached my limit because he let me dress him without much fanfare.
, there's some reason for it. So I breathe in, breathe out 
. Hopefully, it'll just pass.
