Kids Dressing Themselves

[twotrue]

At what age can I expect DD to get dressed on her own? She can get undies on and sometimes pants (depending on the type) by herself. I'm afraid she won't be able to do shirts by herself for ages considering her head is soooo huge and it takes some effort to get most shirts tugged over the noggin'. Socks, she tries, but isn't 100% successful at. And shows she can put on, depending on the shoe.

So at what age did your LO start dressing his/herself?

[2brides]

I am trying to think - sometime during the 3y old year?

But I helped get them dressed in the mornings (to speed things along) through most of PK4 - they could do it, but it took forever.

Since they refuse to wear shirts with buttons, they still have a hard time doing them the 2-3x/year when we force the issue. And we need to get tie shoes so they can practice.

[ct]

we encourage independent dressing right away with as minimal "help" as possible. For Sprout at 4 it was expected to be 99.9% independent (ie. we left the clothes out the night before and he'd come out of his room dressed in the am). RB seems to be on that track as well - she can mostly dress herself but could still use some guidance with buttons, making sure she doesn't put things on backwards, ect

[cymru]

This is something we are working with right now. Annie can dress herself mostly, but she really doesn't want to. Our goal is to have her dressing independently all the time by her 4th birthday ( in 4 months)

This is my same kid who doesn't care what she wears either. Whatever I pick out is fine.

If it was up to her she would just be naked all the time.

[seattlekari]

I think it was sometime in year 3 for E too. Though like 2brides, I would often help her through age 4 to speed things along on the weekdays. E could be quite the dilly-dallier in the mornings.

[Deleted]

I don't remember with A but Iz needed some help until about 4 then reminders to dress more quickly for awhile, now she dresses herself quickly.

Owl (2.5yo) is learning how to dress herself and usually can get underwear/pants/shoes on herself (sometimes backward or both legs in one pant leg), she can get her shirt on as long as I put it on top of her head, and needs help with socks. She knows how to dress herself for the most part, it's the trauma/mental health stuff that makes it a task. She doesn't get any of her clothes out, I get them out so it doesn't become a battle.

[twotrue]

So it sounds like JB is about where she should be. I'll continue to ask her to try and do her pants and socks by herself and continue to help her with shirts.

[eratmama]

Unfortunately, carrot's previous foster mom babied her a lot in this area. She would dress her completely, even at 4.5 years old. We pick out clothes together the night before, but without a lot of prodding/encouragement meltdowns happen.

You ladies have inspired me to tackle this problem, I want to cook the kids breakfast more, so that might be incentive for. Both of us

[ElsaVonM]

I am pretty sure that you all meant to say that your kids started dressing themselves at 10 months and were doing their own laundry by age 2.

I'm just going to go with that.