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[quote=Anonymous]My 20mo charge is wonderful, sweet, obedient, and bright and the only time I have trouble with him is at diaper changes. If he has a wet diaper, it's fine, he's happy to sing songs or look at a toy while I change him, but if it's a poopy diaper he wants to grab the poop. A lot. To the point that I have to physically hold down his arms and legs until he gets so angry and upset he forgets what he wants to do and I can quickly change him. It's miserable for him and for me.

I suspect that he does it 1) because kids this age have a fascination with poop but more because 2) it gets a rise out of me. Not that I'm yelling or anything, but clearly I am visibly frustrated and using my very firm voice that I normally only break out for things like touching power outlets or standing up in the bathtub. Even though when I say "no" and he shakes his head and repeats "no no no" (which normally also leads to him not doing whatever it is we're talking about), he still tries over and over and over to grab it. Diaper changes can last 10-15 minutes this way.

This has been going on for 4-6 months, although some weeks are worse than others, and I honestly thought he'd have grown out of it by now. I just don't know how to not respond (because that would mean poop gets flung everywhere, probably including in his mouth), so I have to give him some kind of reaction and he clearly just delights in it. I've gotten special toys for him that I break out only at diaper changes, trying to distract him, but he throws them on the floor and tries to grab his poop with both hands. Obviously I'm not going to do this but today as I was holding him down trying to wait out his flailing, I found myself wondering whether a little smack on the back of the hand would help - ACK! I am not that kind of nanny (or person) and would never hit someone else's child (or my own), and the fact that my brain even went there means I am at the end of my desperate rope.

Someone, anyone, please tell me how you got past this stage?![/quote]

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