Toddler Removing Clothing and Diaper

My son has started doing this too. He is 20 mos old. This week after cleaning up pee and poop out of my floor I decided to start pody training. Hopefully it won't be long now!

Well this is a fun stage! Try putting the diaper on backwards or he might be trying to tell you that he is ready for the big boy potty. Tell daddy to take him to the bathroom and show him how it is done! Then he goes to pull-ups at night only!!

My daughter is 3 yrs old and would still walk around naked if I let her. She started removing her diaper and clothes about the same age as your son, but mostly at night and would wake up soaked! The entire crib was covered with pee!! I changed her to pull ups (without the side that pulls apart) and pj's that zip and snap at top. She couldn't get into those. AS far as the day time, I constantly remind her that you don't go around naked, it's not polite and you don't see anyone else walking around naked. I think it's just a phase and more of a pain for us than anything. Try putting on clothes that aren't as easy to remove (one piece outfits, overalls, pants that button rather than snap) and change to pull ups.....they aren't as easy to remove as a diaper. They're just darn cute sometimes when they are running around naked!!

I've heard of duct tape, and of putting jammies on backwards so they can't unzip them. Good luck!

get him dressed again and be prepared to repeat! and start potty training :-)

good luck!

You laugh! (Make sure you don't let him see you laughing if you want him to not do this.) After that, get him dressed. If you don't want him to take it off, I know a mom who would put masking tape all the way around the diaper's waist. Every kid in the world does this because they can. It's a new and exciting thing to do.

There really isn't anything you can do. I had that problem with all my girls and so did a few of my friends. They are really comfortable in their own skin which is good. Just try to keep him from doing it in public. My daughter did it at preschool a few times. She's nine now and has grown out of that stage.

Duct tape, just a little on the sides will do.

My twin boys done the exact same thing around that age. The best thing that I found to do is.....just re-dress him and tell him that big boys don't take there clothes off. My boys did this for a couple of months and finally out grew it or decided that they would have to wear their clothes no matter what. Good Luck!

Isn't it funny what kids do? My kids all have done that. Try keeping a onese on him that snaps at the bottom. That usually keeps them from getting thier diaper off. As for the rest of the clothes, he will get tired of doing it sooner or later. My 13 month old can figure out his diaper and sometimes his pants also. I know how it is. Have a great day!!

If he doesnt know how to pull apart onsies I'd say start having him sleep in them under his clothes. My son started that about 16 mths of age & we werent so lucky LOL He woke up from a nap & had pooped... nothing like finger painting w/ poop lemme tell ya LOL SO if a pai of pants are too loose to not catch on the diaper then he gets a onsie under them. I've had some ppl tell me that Putting the diaper on backwards can help too but we've not tried that yet. Hope it helps & GOOD LUCK! LOL

I'm sorry but, LOL! I have a 3 year old that still likes to "strip" then open the door for everyone to see! They eventually grow out of the stage (I hope). My 4 year old daughter thru potty training would poop her pants, clean herself up, then hide the pants somewhere like the bathroom cabinet, in her dollhouse, ick! LOL Like the smell would never lead us to the hiding spot.

All three of my kids went through a stage of running around the house without clothes. They all grew out of it. As long as it was just our family in the house, I just let them run around naked. I would try not make a big deal about it and just find a way to keep the diaper on (Duct tape, overalls, etc.) It actually was a great way to potty train. It seemed to be too hard for them to get their pants off to go to the bathroom at first, so being naked made it more likely they would successfully make it to the potty.

MAybe it is time to introduce training pants... my grandson was potty trained at 23 months... he hated the diapers so he took to the training pants... just a thought

Hi J.,

Unfortunately that is a stage all toddlers go through. When you find your son in the "buff" just put his clothes back on and continue as if nothing happened. He will eventually find something else to do, that may or may not be so amusing to you! Good luck!

If it bothers you alot and you would rather him not run around in the buff, get overalls that may be harder for him to strip off. Though it might be nice to give him time to breath out of a diaper. I used to let my kids have some time to run around before putting a diaper back on. Then the fresh air was getting to them (helped with diaper rash too) and we were compromising.

Time to start potty training hun.

My daughter went through that. She would do it so much, that we had to resort to (what seemed like) desperate measures. We put her in pjs that zipped up the front, and we put a safety pin across the top of the zipper so she couldn't upzip it. During the day time/naptimes, we put her in a onsie top that snapped, with either pants or shorts over it. When she figured out the snaps, we had to put her in overalls - where she couldn't undo the buckles. By the time she figured out the buckles, she had lost interest in taking off her diaper (since she could never get to it).