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<blockquote data-quote="hexemaus2" data-source="post: 397259" data-attributes="member: 4560"><p>Does she like pajamas at all? I know we went through a similar stage with difficult child 1 for awhile. It didn't last long, but it was still a battle for a year or so. I found (quite by accident) a pair of pjs she absolutely loved because they were satin and looked a lot like some of my pjs. She loved them, but because they were pretty, special pjs, she couldn't wear them if she didn't take a bath first. She wouldn't want to get all the pretty bows and bits of lace nasty, now would she? Then they wouldn't be pretty any more. It didn't always work, but sometimes it did. She ONLY got to wear her pretty pjs on the nights she took a bath before bed.</p><p> </p><p>Maybe something else would do the trick for her? I know I used to love the smell of my grandmother's powder. She had one of those big, huge, fluffy powder puff things. It was in a big round cosmetic box with a lid. I remember every morning she used her powder puff after a shower and it smelled wonderful. For me, as a little girl, I used to think when I was grown up, I'd get to wear make up and have powder puffs that smelled pretty too. My Mom bought me my own little powder puff thing (with baby powder, as opposed to the perfumed stuff my grandmother used) for Christmas one year. Looking back now, I realize she was trying to break me of my tomboy rolling-in-the-mud and climbing into bed habits. It was special stuff I was only allowed to use after I took a bath. She even bought me a matching perfume bottle...the kind with the little bulb you squeeze. (I'm sure it had some kind of watered-down kiddie perfume in it...but to me, this was all grown up stuff and SUCH a big deal.) Thinking back, that was about the time I stopped idolizing Laura Ingles and her tomboy image and started being a little more "girlie." (As in, taking baths regularly and wanting to smell pretty like a grown up...I never really gave up being a tomboy, completely. lol.)</p><p> </p><p>Is there something she likes about grown up girls/women that might entice her into taking a bath with less of a fight? Something she could have or do, only after bathtime, that would make her feel like she's getting to be a grown up? Special pjs, some kind of smell pretty something, maybe even rolling her hair after a bath so it's pretty and curly in the morning? (I know that was something my sister loved doing when she was younger...putting her hair in rollers so she could have curly pony tails the next day.) Something she'd only get to do/have/wear after she takes a bath?</p><p> </p><p>Maybe even a special snack? (To this day, I still crave fish sticks when I smell strawberry shampoo because my best friend's mom growing up, always made us fish sticks after bath time when I spent the night.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hexemaus2, post: 397259, member: 4560"] Does she like pajamas at all? I know we went through a similar stage with difficult child 1 for awhile. It didn't last long, but it was still a battle for a year or so. I found (quite by accident) a pair of pjs she absolutely loved because they were satin and looked a lot like some of my pjs. She loved them, but because they were pretty, special pjs, she couldn't wear them if she didn't take a bath first. She wouldn't want to get all the pretty bows and bits of lace nasty, now would she? Then they wouldn't be pretty any more. It didn't always work, but sometimes it did. She ONLY got to wear her pretty pjs on the nights she took a bath before bed. Maybe something else would do the trick for her? I know I used to love the smell of my grandmother's powder. She had one of those big, huge, fluffy powder puff things. It was in a big round cosmetic box with a lid. I remember every morning she used her powder puff after a shower and it smelled wonderful. For me, as a little girl, I used to think when I was grown up, I'd get to wear make up and have powder puffs that smelled pretty too. My Mom bought me my own little powder puff thing (with baby powder, as opposed to the perfumed stuff my grandmother used) for Christmas one year. Looking back now, I realize she was trying to break me of my tomboy rolling-in-the-mud and climbing into bed habits. It was special stuff I was only allowed to use after I took a bath. She even bought me a matching perfume bottle...the kind with the little bulb you squeeze. (I'm sure it had some kind of watered-down kiddie perfume in it...but to me, this was all grown up stuff and SUCH a big deal.) Thinking back, that was about the time I stopped idolizing Laura Ingles and her tomboy image and started being a little more "girlie." (As in, taking baths regularly and wanting to smell pretty like a grown up...I never really gave up being a tomboy, completely. lol.) Is there something she likes about grown up girls/women that might entice her into taking a bath with less of a fight? Something she could have or do, only after bathtime, that would make her feel like she's getting to be a grown up? Special pjs, some kind of smell pretty something, maybe even rolling her hair after a bath so it's pretty and curly in the morning? (I know that was something my sister loved doing when she was younger...putting her hair in rollers so she could have curly pony tails the next day.) Something she'd only get to do/have/wear after she takes a bath? Maybe even a special snack? (To this day, I still crave fish sticks when I smell strawberry shampoo because my best friend's mom growing up, always made us fish sticks after bath time when I spent the night.) [/QUOTE]
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