Toddler and hats????
Published December 10, 2010 | 
Question by Derek and Luke’s Mama: Toddler and hats????
When did your toddler start wearing hats? My son won’t keep it on his head. Any advice? Thanks!
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Answer by Patricia H
Good luck on that one… My kids didnt like wearing hats until about 5 or 6
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Use some Crazy glue and glue it to their head. It will stay on that way.
Why oh why do adults insist on dressing their kids as if they were dolls? let it be already
He’ll keep it on when he’s ready. My daughter and granddaughter both refused to wear hats, but my son and grandson both wanted to wear baseball caps at about 2 years old, but they wouldn’t wear them until it was their idea. Good luck!
Yank….LOL. Most toddlers yank them off their heads. My kids wore the Gap hats with the wide rims and the velcro straps.
I started my oldest when he was an infant, and he’s always been fine with them. (He’s now 2.)
However, I didn’t start until recently putting hats on my 16 month old- but I’ve been putting it on him daily, and keep putting it back on everytime he takes it off- and after a week, he’s pretty much used it. Lol. (trying to prepare for winter hats!)
Hope this helps. =)
they go thru phases ……depends on each child… hard to tell
one day they will just appear with a hat on and never want to take it off
same goes for capes,backpacks,favorite t-shirts,shoes……dont push this isssue..you will only end up with a lost hat..( tossed away when you werent looking )…you could try one of dads…baseball caps ?
from the moment they sat up in the pusher they wore hats. They would take them off and I would say a firm NO! and put it back on. Same with the sunglasses. It wasn’t long before they left them alone. By 9 months they wore both without a worry. Having bald, blue eyed babies I had to be very careful with the Australian sun
they either like something on their heads or they dont. you might try a little umbrella or sun visor and some sun protective lotion in your child’s case. one of my sons liked hats, the other did not.
Let him pick one out himself explaining that he needs to wear one to keep his head warm and to keep him from getting sick. Most toddlers understand sick and warm and cold; and love any sort independence.
As soon as I told them and they understood if they took their hats off they were going back inside.
Okay, seriously, my son has about 100 hats and he is 3. He REALLY started to accept wearting them right around 2. Now he loves them and I buy them to match every outfit. I remember buying him one for his 2nd birthday for pictures and he didn’t want to keep it on. So sometime between two and two anda half. Good luck. Boys look too cute in hats.
My son started wearing hats as soon as he was born. To this day (he’s 27), I rarely see him without one.
Find out your son’s interests, and play off of them. A favorite ball team (sometimes Daddy’s favorite works), or a favorite cartoon character may encourage him. Get a couple of hats and tell him, “Today is hat day. Which one will you pick?” Giving a child a choice (even when it isn’t a choice, as in not having an option to say “no” to the hat idea itself), usually will work.
my son (7 years) hates hats.
he constantly complains that they are itchy and what not. I once sent him out to the backyard with a hat… next thing i know the hat isn’t on his head when he comes back in. The next spring I dig up his hat when i’m replanting my garden.
I highly recommend you get your sons one of these:
http://www.myabx.com/company%20store/headbandearwarmerB.gif
they keep the ears warm and my son loves these
and *gasp* they don’t get buried somewhere
you could also make your soon wear a hood so the heat doesn’t escape from his head.
when we wouldn’t allow him out to play in the snow unless he had it on, and around two and a half years old.
We told him he cant go out without a toboggan and/or hood because he would get sick and if he wanted out to play then he had to do what he was told.
*it’s my nephew*
I did not accustom my child to wear hats, and now he also takes them off (he’s a year old now). I would recommend you slowly adjust him to wear one for “play” and he’ll slowly get to wear one. And also if he’s being a little complicated, try those hats/beanies that tie/snap from the chin. That got my boy to wear them once in a while. good luck!
It may be a good idea to just let him try it on his own, if he doesn’t like wearing it, then he just doesn’t like wearing it, you can’t force him
I am not sure about kids, but I can’t wear hats as it bothers my head (I sweat, then start to itch), maybe a similar problem, or maybe it just makes him feel uncomfortable
If you are wanting to put a hat on him for protection, you may want to look for a sunblock hair gel of some sort (I think they would have something around those lines somewhere), if you just wanted to put a hat on him to make him cute, it’s a better idea not to put a hat on
My daughter likes hats but only the ones she picks out or if she’s just in the mood to wear one – she’s 2 1/2. It’s very cold in the winter so if she wants to go outside she has to wear a hat. I just let her pick out her hats. Take him to the store and let him choose ones he likes and see if he’s more interested in wearing them.
My oldest daughter wore hats at 12months..she loved them.
My 2nd who is also a girl wore hats at around 2yrs old
My 3rd, which is a boy wore hats while he was 3-6months..but wont wear them anymore since he was 6months..he is now 2 yrs old
My lil girl who is 10months hasnt ever liked hats…
I think it varies on the child, and if they were them alot when they are younger like new borns..
we are in a very very hot sunny climate so hats are useful.. however my 1 year old won’t leave a hat on his head for more then a minute as soon as it goes on he’s getting it off his head…
we’ve resorted to a parasol on his buggy etc that can be moved if we’re sitting in the sun to shade him a bit.
If it’s cold I guess we’d just have to wrap him up everywhere else, although I may become the worst mum in his world when we return home at christmas (it’ll be very cold for him) and get him a hat which ties under his chin so he’ll have difficulty removing it!