Getting dressed/undressed

How do u teach your children to get dressed and undressed? My son 2 1/2 and is fully toilet trained and had been for a while but still struggles up pull down his trousers and his t shirt ect, I’ve tried to teach him but he doesn’t fully get it!! Any tips/tricks to teach him?? I want him to be able to use the toilet independently without having to ask me to help and get himself dressed
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My kid is 9 months old so I don't really have a lot of experience yet, but from what research we've done we've started our kiddo early with letting him push his arms through himself and pull them out etc when we dress him now, and he's started trying to take off his clothes by himself once we take part of it off, but he still gets stuck lol. Other than that all I can suggest with my limited experience is maybe see if the clothing he's wearing is hindering how he's putting it on/taking it off? Idk hopefully someone more experienced will be able to help!

Try backward chaining. Break it into small steps and work backwards. So you pull them off most of the way then he does the last bit then when he's mastered that, he does a bit more and a bit more till he gets it from the beginning. Hand over hand - so you hold his hands whilst doing it so he gets the idea and then take this away.

We started super young by involving our son in undressing everytime. Like we’d explain “let’s take your shirt off, lift up your arms, let’s take your pants off, we’ll pull them down, let’s take our feet out” & it definitely made an impact for us (: my son is definitely more eager to take his clothes off than he is to put them on but I think that’s pretty normal LOL

@Parker 又 my 2.5yo likes copying me and says one little leg, twooooo little legs. But it comes out as lililegs 😂

He won't be able to just yet, developmentally children are unable to pull their trousers up and down till there almost three. Undressing and dressing when there four

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