Our youngest has yet to master getting his clothes on correctly, as well as his shoes. Every morning he runs naked into our room, holding his tiny underwear up to me, usually sideways or backwards and asks, "mommy is this the wrong?" And every day I respond "tag in the back, son. Tag in the back." Sometimes at this point he will resume getting dressed, but more often lately he will repeat himself, asking again, "but is this the wrong?"
Same deal with shoes... we're still in flip flop season here, and you'd think he could feel "the wrong" having them on the wrong feet, but either he doesn't, or he doesn't care. So many days I send them all to go pee and get shoes on so we can go out, and we go thru a round of "is this the wrong?" before we leave. Then we get into the car, and for reasons unknown, he will remove his shoes, resulting in yet another "is this the wrong" before getting out of the car.
I have, and my other half as well, shown him the tags or the labels or whatever in clothing, and we chant "tag in the back" daily. It seems to work about 60% of the time.
I am not sure if I should just find this endearing due to the fact that he's 3.5 and perhaps too young to be getting dressed independently, or if I should resume my thoughts of banging my head into the wall after hearing that question at least 15 times a day.
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