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<blockquote data-quote="jennd23" data-source="post: 451664" data-attributes="member: 11755"><p>The thing is I'm not just standing there arguing about it. I'm doing other things like getting our lunches together, finishing breakfast, etc, while tell him him to get dressed. I wouldn't stand there and argue with him for 5 minutes about it. I'm willing to try it, but I'm trying it this week because school starts soon and I don't want to be messing around with morning stuff then. </p><p></p><p>We have a schedule on the wall (that he picked the order of) but maybe we need to look over it again and let him decide where he'd like to put getting dressed on that schedule. The only way we have avoided the argument this far is if I actually dress him. Like the day he had to have a blood draw, I didn't even ask, I just dressed him so that there wouldn't be a meltdown, we needed calm that day. Well, we need calm every day but I'm sorry I just think its silly to dress a 7 year old every day! Which I know it seems like a weird battle to pick but he's seriously lacking in self help skills because he flat out refuses to do things. I just got him to the point of bathing himself in the tub a week or two ago. I still do the water and have to wash his hair for him (so his face doesn't get wet), etc, and he's only 7 but a lot of 7 yr olds are showring by themselves by now. And I'm not pushing for that since he doesn't like to get his face wet, but there are just some things that he can do on his own that he won't. Like wiping after the restroom. Again, i don't mind helping if he needs help but he's capable. he does it at school and at my parents. he also dresses himself @ my parents with no fights. Why just at home?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jennd23, post: 451664, member: 11755"] The thing is I'm not just standing there arguing about it. I'm doing other things like getting our lunches together, finishing breakfast, etc, while tell him him to get dressed. I wouldn't stand there and argue with him for 5 minutes about it. I'm willing to try it, but I'm trying it this week because school starts soon and I don't want to be messing around with morning stuff then. We have a schedule on the wall (that he picked the order of) but maybe we need to look over it again and let him decide where he'd like to put getting dressed on that schedule. The only way we have avoided the argument this far is if I actually dress him. Like the day he had to have a blood draw, I didn't even ask, I just dressed him so that there wouldn't be a meltdown, we needed calm that day. Well, we need calm every day but I'm sorry I just think its silly to dress a 7 year old every day! Which I know it seems like a weird battle to pick but he's seriously lacking in self help skills because he flat out refuses to do things. I just got him to the point of bathing himself in the tub a week or two ago. I still do the water and have to wash his hair for him (so his face doesn't get wet), etc, and he's only 7 but a lot of 7 yr olds are showring by themselves by now. And I'm not pushing for that since he doesn't like to get his face wet, but there are just some things that he can do on his own that he won't. Like wiping after the restroom. Again, i don't mind helping if he needs help but he's capable. he does it at school and at my parents. he also dresses himself @ my parents with no fights. Why just at home? [/QUOTE]
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