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Dressing can provide at least as many opportunities for practicing waiting as your child has pieces of clothing! To provide just the right amount of practice, and to ensure that practice opportunities are positive for your child, implement it only on those days when you and your child are not feeling rushed.
Dressing can provide at least as many opportunities for practicing waiting as your child has pieces of clothing! To provide just the right amount of practice, and to ensure that practice opportunities are positive for your child, implement it only on those days when you and your child are not feeling rushed.
· Incorporate concepts such as “fast” and “slow” as your child dresses/undresses or as you assist. Children learn self-control by controlling their bodies.
· Incorporate concepts such as “fast” and “slow” as your child dresses/undresses or as you assist. Children learn self-control by controlling their bodies.
· Introduce your child to the organizational strategy of making and following a plan. After your child chooses what to wear for the day, help them lay out each piece in the order they’ll be putting them on, and support them as they follow their plan.
· Introduce your child to the organizational strategy of making and following a plan. After your child chooses what to wear for the day, help them lay out each piece in the order they’ll be putting them on, and support them as they follow their plan.
· Recite a rhyme or play a game that inserts short pauses during managing pieces of clothing. Some examples:
· Recite a rhyme or play a game that inserts short pauses during managing pieces of clothing. Some examples:
--Help your child with their shirt, then say, “Tick tock, goes the clock. Try to be as still as a rock. (Freeze briefly, then unfreeze.) Now, pants on!”
--Help your child with their shirt, then say, “Tick tock, goes the clock. Try to be as still as a rock. (Freeze briefly, then unfreeze.) Now, pants on!”
--Stop & Go: When your child has more independent dressing/undressing skills, add challenge to their routine by using a red light/green light visual to signal pauses and starts.
--Stop & Go: When your child has more independent dressing/undressing skills, add challenge to their routine by using a red light/green light visual to signal pauses and starts.
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