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[quote=Anonymous]Please help if you've been through this...

My 3 year old son is impossible to get dressed and out the door in the morning or ever. We give him choices of two things to wear, he won't choose. We tell him he can choose anything in his drawer, he won't. We get angry and try to forcefully dress him, he freaks out, cries hysterically then peels the clothes off while crying anyway. We try to be sweet and calm, he just refuses to do anything and has a stand off with us. We have left the house with him in his underwear before, buckling him in sobbing crying, only to arrive at our destination and he still refuses to get dressed and we have to go back home.

Most days he will FINALLY give in, but this can (and does) last an hour or more sometimes, and leaves everyone pissed off and emotionally drained.

Even when he does get dressed, he likes to take his clothes off the minute he's back home, and wants to change a million times a day. Wants to wear weather-inappropriate things like thick sweaters in the summer heat, or thick warm Christmas pajamas in the heat, or casual play clothes to church.

I am assuming it's a control thing, but I just don't know what to do or how to break it. I CANNOT deal with this every morning once school starts.....

FWIW he is a joy and is a sweet child the rest of the time, pretty much. He just dropped his nap, we're expecting another child, so IDK if it's just a phase of lots of transition? HELPPPPP [/quote]

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