Another thing I would like to suggest is getting DD2 to pick her clothes for tomorrow the night before? Take her into her room and ask her what she wants to wear tomorrow and put them in her room or maybe out in the loungeroom so when she wakes up in the morning you can say "hey DD do you want to put on those clothes that you picked out last night?" t might make her feel more in control and help with the tantrum?
Hi,
I read this thread yesterday and meant to reply, but didn't get a chance - sleep time was over too quickly! LOL!
I live out of town so have a one hour drive to town / work / day care. We have a rush in the mornings on our work / daycare days.
The night before I pack all bags - my work stuff, their day care bags, and lay everyone's clothes out ready. And I make all the lunches and car snacks, and put them in the fridge.
In the morning, as soon as they wake, I get them dressed, DD2 wakes first and has a BF, then DD1 wakes, and she gets dressed, and they both have a drink of milk in front of the TV for 10 mins while I get dressed. Then it's straight into the car.
In the car, they have a sandwich (made the night before) or some sultanas or some cheese pieces from their "lunch box".
When they get to day care, they have breakfast then, some cereal and/or toast.
I get breakfast at my desk when I get to work (sometimes I pinch a car snack LOL)
I haven't taken them to daycare in their PJs, but have threatened DD1 a couple of times when she hasn't co-operated, and I have been there when some mums have dropped them in their PJs - the daycare staff have been good about it, but then I don't think it's the situation of the "same nappy" that hj1981 described (god I hope not, that sounds awful!). I would do it if I had to, but our little routine works for us. I think if I tried to do breakfast at home, we would struggle with the getting dressed as well.
Having said that, I have taken them to swimming lessons in their PJs though.....
Again, an hour drive. so a bit of the opposite of day care days... (same packing everything the night before though!)
We have breakfast at home and then get in the car, and then drive to the pool, where its a quick change into the swimmers, and then after swimming we put our "nice" clothes on, because we are in town LOL! Generally though, DD1 is a bit more co-operative now, and doesn't want to wear her PJs, so if she puts a tracksuit on herself, then she wears that.
Last night I got DD2 to choose her clothes and we put them on a hanger (within her reach) for the morning.
This morning when she woke up, we started getting dressed straight away. And DD1.
I timed it. D'you know how long it took? 25 minutes. That was with the promise of stickers.
That was with me in the same room solely concentrating on getting dressed. I'd done the bags the night before, lunches done etc. etc. so I could give myself as much time as possible to dressing.
Why does it take so long? If I try to help her by holding out the arm of a cardigan - meltdown. If I get something off the hanger that she's having trouble with, meltdown.
If I leave her to it, she messes around and doesn't get dressed.
This morning I tried to make it into a race which led to a meltdown from DD1 because she was losing.
Just. Freaking. Impossible.
We were on time for school but I got up at 6.30am and had done everything the night before.
I have, we were running late, I had an important appointment and just let them know. Easy as. DS1 has had issues with not wanting to go to schooland so will refuse to get into his school clothes (he had actually refused to wear his pjs and get out of his after school clothes as well) so he went in his dirty clothes. The school obviously wasn't impressed until I explained the situation to them and they told me next time to send him as is with a spare set of clothes, same as when he purposely dirties his clothes so he doesn't have to go (3 shirts in one hour. I was not impressed).
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