My Little Stripper

Updated on November 17, 2008
J.L. asks from Corvallis, OR
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My 17 month old daughter loves to take her diaper off, and now has figured out how to take her clothes off too. Keeping the diaper on wasnt to bad, we would keep pants on her all the time. But now she has figured out she can stick her hand in her pants and undo the diaper. I know they suggest working on potty training when little ones do this. She will be 18 months old at the end of the month, is she to young? For a while now she will tell me she is poopy (she waves her hand and says "eww tink"). So my question is do I start potty training or anybody have ideas on how to keep clothes (and diapers)on my little stripper?

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Thanks so much for all of the suggestions. I am glad that most of you got a chuckle over this too!! I will try the onesies! I just got a potty seat last week, and she sat on it tonight before her bath. I am going to let her get used to the potty and work on training later.
One would think with this being my fourth child I would have an answer to all of this. I guess you forget a thing or two after 8 years!
Today she followed me to the bathroom and went to her toilet. I took her pants off and let her sit on it and she peed!! She did this twice today. I wasnt going to push it but....

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B.O.

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If she is telling you when she has a BM, that is a major step in potty training. Get her a seat, but don;t push it too hard. Explain to her what the seat is for, and that she can use it when she wants. Give her time to explore the seat at her own pace.
She likes taking her clothes off because it is a new skill:) It is a wonderful sign of how well her fine motor skills are developing:)

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N.D.

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not that i think your daughter isn't ready for the potty (i don't know her) but my daughter did the same thing at that age and i got really excited. she didn't potty-train until she was 2.5. she just LOVED to be naked. have you tried putting her diaper on backwards? i know nothing is worse than your child ripping off her poopy diaper with a quick fling. i've had to clean off a wall or two.

if she figures out backwards, there is always duct tape. or put footie jammies on her backwards.

good luck

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A.G.

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I am so sorry to say this, but I'm glad I'm not the only one who has to deal with this lol. My daughter just turned 2, but has been stripping down for almost a year now. She refuses to potty train so we can't skip to that route. What we have done is she takes all naps/bedtime in a backwards zip up sleeper. She learned how to un-snap onesies and learned how to unzip stuff from the front. So we bought regular sleepers with or without feet and just put them on her backwards. She learned how to tear the side of the pull up, so sometimes a pull up will work, sometimes not. Depends on how much they really want that darn thing off!!! Heck, there were mornings we'd come in and her diaper would be off, but her sleeper fully intact!! It's amazing what little kids can do. Good luck!!

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M.L.

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Sounds like she's ready for a potty! My cousin also used to put the diapers on backwards because it was harder for her boys to undo the tabs that way.

M.B.

answers from Seattle on

J.,

Forgive my laughter, but your little one sounds like my almost 20 month old daughter. She's come close a few times to stripping, but hasn't gone quite that far. For the past few months if anyone in our house mentions having to go potty she grabs her diaper and says "mama" (everything is mama).

I would get a potty chair and the book "My Big Girl Potty" by Joanna Cole. I would also think about putting her in onsies that snap in the crotch. Those should help keep the diaper on as the days get colder and colder.

Hope this helps,
Melissa

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A.C.

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Some kids are ready sooner than others. My step daughter was potty trained by the time she was 2. She wanted to wear big girl panties, and we told her the only way she could is if she went potty in the toilet. Now thats not to say that she didnt have accidents, because she did, more times than not she'd get busy and forget to go. But if shes already taking off her diaper she may be ready to have the potty introduced to her. As for taking off clothes, I have a lil boy who is now 5 and hates clothes. He knows he has to wear them outside the house, but as soon as we get home he is stripped down to his underwear. I dont know why, but he hates wearing clothes, and we have problems keeping him in them if we are home, adn have just given up trying to. He undertands the difference between home and away so its just not worth the fight it would take to keep him clothed.

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B.Y.

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Some children can be potty trained very early. And it does not hurt to try if you do not push. Make it a game, or fun.

As for the clothing staying on, yup I have the nudest child also. I found that the onesie type shirts that snap up would help a little.
Also there is overalls.
But some little ones are just to smart, and there is not alot to do.

Now you say she is undoing the diaper, how about switching over to pull ups?

Good luck

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K.W.

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We're not in a hurry to potty train, but we do talk about it. Here's an awesome thing: you can go to IKEA and get a stack of little potties, I think $3 a pop, in different colors and scatter them around the house so they are always available. My girl likes to put her stuffed animals on them (no, she hasn't started using them for elimination yet!) and tell them how being a big girl means no more diapers.

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T.J.

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I'd try pullups for a while until she stops. She can't undo those as easily. Then you can switch back if you want after a while. Good luck!

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K.C.

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My daughter started telling us 'I'm going potty' when wearing a diaper at about 14 months. So we got her a potty chair knowing this could still be a long road and not to get frusterated. Sometimes she loved her potty and wouldn't have any accidentsx for months wearing panties. Then (usually when teething or sick) would start asking for a diaper again. She has also love to be nude at home and we let her as long as she used her potty. I never pushed the issue and she was daytime potty trained before her 2nd b-day. If your worried about her being cold try having her wear socks or slippers and a shirt at least at home. Or turn up the heat. And the "My Big Girl Potty" book is very used and still her favorite.

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L.G.

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Children are physically able to acquire the muscle control for toilet learning at 17 months old, but not all children have the cognitive readiness to accompany this ability. Your daughter sounds like she has an awareness of what is going on with her body... why not give it a shot? :)

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J.C.

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My son potty trained at 18 months, and was in undies full time by 24 months. If she seems ready, then go for it!

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A.S.

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I put a onesi on my son, then his clothes. At night, I took the feet out of the sleeper jammies, and put it on him backwards so he can't unzip it. Worked wonderful!

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N.M.

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Most children at this age, boys and girls, just love to be naked. You will also many little girls with naked babies at this stage as well. They know how to get clothes off but getting them back is something else all together. When my daughter was between 1 1/2 and 2 1/2 keeping her from streaking through the yard was nearly impossible. Your little one is just being a typical child. My personal opinion is that she is too young to really start potty training. You can try but let it be on her terms not yours and know that if you do try and she doesn't respond well that it's okay to quit for awhile and try again later when she's a little older.
Good Luck.

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M.S.

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I personally think that her interest in ripping off her diaper does not mean that she is ready to potty train, and if you did choose to train her, it would be a long road anyway, so either way, you need a solution. I recommend that you go buy some Onesie snap crotch undershirts and keep her in them. She most likely will not be able to get to her diaper that way. If you find that she figures out how to reach to her crotch and rip the snaps undone, then simply turn it around and have her wear it backwards.

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