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[quote=Anonymous]If he consistently wakes up dry, consider dressing him in clean clothes the night before to take off one step.

If you are going to end up doing something fun, like crab walking to the bathroom, build it into your initial routine, not as a reward for misbehavior.  So, tickle him awake, pick him up, hug him, put him on his feet and wheelbarrow or race or whatever to the bathroom.

Pressuring kids to eat reinforces not eating.  Put out something that is easy eat, that you know he likes and that he has eaten before.  After 15 minutes, clear it away.  Yes, he might be hungry and eat a little less for a couple days.  Start this now, not the first day of school.

While he doesn’t understand time in an abstract sense as a finite quantity, he can understand “fast” as in doing a specific piece of a routine fast.  Put together a sticker chart with the steps of his routine, a certain number of stickers (not a certain number in a day, no losing!) and he gets some tangible reward.  The easiest way to measure “fast” is to best you, with some extra chores built in for you so he has a reasonable chance to win.  So, you might escort him to the toilet, and tell him that if he wants his sticker you need to hear flushing, water running, and he needs to be at the table with clean hands before you have breakfast ready and sit down yourself.  [/quote]

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