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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi more experienced moms.  My toddler, now 20 months old, has become a toddler in the last two days - for the first time, she is refusing to let me dress her, whines or cries when she sees me (coming home from work or when I leave), has little melt downs about having to get in the stroller, wants me to pick her up and then when I do wants to get down, etc, etc.  These are new behaviors for her, maybe we are a little behind everyone else :)

Anyway, when she wouldn't let me dress her this morning (I first gave her options of what to wear, she refused both, then tried to distract her with something else, then went away to let her play by herself, and then returned and tried to dress her again), I ended up holding her still and forcing her limbs into her clothes with her howling...

I feel a bit dumb asking this, but is it bad to do this?  I'm not sure what else to do ... and I needed her to get dressed.  Am I somehow setting the stage for worse behavior or doing somethign that is developmentally harmful to her?  I feel weird/not good about forcibly restraining my child and pulling her clothes on her and felt like I did something wrong this morning ...

Please help a clueless FTM out! [/quote]

A friend of mine dealt with this by bagging the clothes up, wrapping her naked toddler in a blanket and delivering her to daycare naked. After the first time, the kid was so shocked that she didn't do it again. [/quote]

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