“Dress-Up: Mess-Up or Yes-Up?”
- Create a calm and relaxed environment while dressing and undressing your child.
- Make dressing a fun activity.
- Sing songs, put on music, talk to your child while dressing and undressing.
- Label body parts and request your child to move them while being dressed or undressed.
- Partially place your child’s body parts in or out of the appropriate piece of clothing. Wait a few seconds to see if your child begins to help.
- Give your child verbal instructions accompanied with gestures as you take the clothes off and put them on.
- Reinforce any participation with hugs, verbal praise, clapping, etc.
