What the heck can I do to keep Mr. Joaquins clothes on! Its a fight alllll daaaay looong....I bathe him...get him dressed..Round one....he'll go play with his brothers and sisters...not five minutes later hes completley naked...get him dressed again telling him we need to keep our clothes on...no one wants to see all your business Joaquin...thats private...get him dressed again...10 mins later...off again...I dress him about 7 times a day...keeping up with his other brothers and sisters ...phewww I'm beat! Any suggestions?? I thought about buying onsies LOL but that would interfere with his potty time...Thanks!

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NEVAEH 4yrs
IGNACIO 2yr
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Hunter too-haven't been able to fix it yet.....

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Shaye
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Mikey used to be the same way. Never was able to figure out the magic trick to keep him dressed.

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Oh, Boy! I guess I won't be a help either. Melly LOVES to be naked.

One thing you could think about... Overalls put on backwards. Looks a little silly, but it might help you to keep your sanity.

Michelle

Have you tried positive reinforcement? so if he's got his clothes on give him loads of praise and maybe a sticker. Same with the other kids so he sees them being praised and getting rewarded. Then if he doesn't have his clothes on, give praise and stickers to the other kids and have a very sad face when you tell Joaquin that he doesn't get one because he doesn't have his clothes on.

Is he capable of putting of putting his own clothes on? if he is then maybe put him in a time out spot or his room until he's put his clothes back on, so he's missing out on playing until he's got his clothes on.

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OOOOOOOOO, Naomi,

I LIKE that idea.

Same with Mazie.. It makes me crazy

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Mine went from stripping to changing clothes like a teenaged girl. He's 5. This is what he often does in the AM. I find him w/o his jammies, he's completely dressed, and there is a pile of clothes on the floor that he's tried on and decided against wearing. Before all of this, the phase was unloading all of his clean clothes from the dresser straight into the laundry hamper. I'm not sure which stage I prefer!!

Kristy..all of your children are so beautiful! I like the two ideas suggested; backward overalls and positive reinforcement... I hope you guys have a fence around your yard!!

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Talitha is a stripper too. And it is the middle of winter here!!! When I get clothes off the line or out of the dryer I put the basket on my bed until I have time to sort it and she loves to strip her clothes off and put everyone elses on. This morning I was huddling in bed because of the cold and she was in her toddler bed, which is right next to mine, handing me her clothes. I don't know how she can do it. I would freeze.

My typical son was a nudist for a while too. He had an all over tan. I didn't manage to get him to keep his clothes on until he started preschool and they had to reinforce it

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Allison is a stripper too! She has no problem taking her bathing suit off when she's done swimming and walking around naked! Just today I was walking out the the paper box to get the paper and I hear her running down the driveway behind me. I turn around and she's butt naked!!!!!! It was a nice day so several of the neighbors were outside too! Uggghhh! never a dull moment!

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That is funny Sue, Nicole and Allison are the same age and she is the same way. I will be doing something in the kitchen and look in the living room and she is standing there naked. She loves to run around without clothes. She also loves to change in to her dress up clothes. She also constantly has her hand in her underware when she does have clothes on and she says they are bugging her. She doesn't like anything up tight so no jeans for us. It drives my husband nuts.
But on some days she will put her hands over her body, if she is near the back door, and say "I don't want anyone to see my naked body" Go figure!!!

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When we're at home Perse is either out of clothes (or in minimum clothing) when she can be, wearing everything to get a laugh or doing the teenage girl thing (at six!) of changing into a different outfit every 15 minutes.

Fortunately she's pretty good when she's out so we're not too worried about it with her but I've no useful advice what to do differently. However this is, I believe, another use for duct tape and our kids...

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Oh man, our Noah is such a stripper! He's three and a half and he's been this way for over a year. We call him "Houdini" because he can get out of anything. He doesn't care if it's the middle of winter, he'd rather be naked. Last winter, when he was at home I'd have him in footed pj's with a quilted vest over them. I put the vest on backwards with the zipper in the back. By the end of winter, he could tear it all off no problem! Of course this summer it's way too warm for that, so he'd been in tops and shorts that stay on for about five seconds. I've tried the overalls, but it takes me longer to get them back on him than it does for him to rip them off. He doesn't do this at school or speech therapy, so maybe it's just mainly to get my attention. I will be SO GLAD when this phase is over! I'm running out of tricks!