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help me please my 2 yr old freaks out when ever I want to take him outside

Jane - posted on 07/25/2011 ( 1 mom has responded )

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my 2 yr old son freaks out when I ask him if he wants to go bye bye he starts to cry and say no bye bye no bye bye he wont even let me dress him . this all started about two months ago and I don't know what to do to make him go outside on his own...the only way he goes out is if I'm with him and where going bye bye in his nana's ( grandma) car other wise he wont go outside he wont walk with me to the park, beach .. anywhere. it's becoming very stressful on me because i just don't understand why out of no where he doesn't want to go bye bye with me or anyone not even his nana unless it's in her car. he wont even go bye bye in someone else car . we use to go out all the time and it was never a problem .. please help me if anyone has or is going thru the same thing please let me know what I might be able to do to break him out of this

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Denise - posted on 07/25/2011

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My son went through a time that he didn't want to leave his comfort area, he would still go but it was always a fight, so we stopped saying we were going outside, we said we were going to go on an adventure. We started out with small adventures, life crawling around the house on our hands and knees going on safari and looking out for wild animals, which would be spotted everywhere, then we would go on adventures in the yard, and we would go on adventures to the grocery store to buy food for dinner, and we talked constantly about where we were, what was around us, other cars, what colors the cars were, identify trucks, pick-up trucks, dump trucks, 18 wheelers, trains or train tracks, buildings, red lights and green lights and what they mean, trees, big trees, little trees, tree just like the ones in our yard, constantly talking about something, noticing something, or asking questions about things, he responded well and it became a game to go on an adventure everywhere we went, and by constantly talking to him he felt involved and it became fun. Maybe just changing the approach from going bye-bye to going on an adventure might make the difference you need. Hope this helps!

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