trying to escape highchair harness

Tell me this is just a passing thing... My little Nathaniel now arches his back when we try to put him into anything & then proceeds to do a houdini sliding all the way down to make his escape. "No" is not working. Anyone out there have any other tricks before his brother wants to do this too? (monkey see, monkey do)
Thanks!!!

 

Mine have just started to do this at 20months old, and I have found that if I stick them in their car seat and then put my hand/fist right at their crotch (pardon my language) so that they can not slide down, that has been working better for us, but it honestly still takes me like 3 minutes to get them in their car seats (and it used to take like 30 seconds!). good luck. also, maybe try telling them where you guys are going and what you will be doing...maybe they will understand that they need to be strapped in, in order to get to do the "fun" stuff.

 

At that age I would try and put them in as fast as possible. I had no choice but to hold them down kicking and screaming.

Now at 21 months, I have found if I let them walk to the car and allow them to try to get into the seat it's a lot easier. Same with the stroller. They now know how to climb in it and I let them. They still have not figured out how to climb into the booster seat but I don't seem to have a problem putting them in.

If I try to pick them up and put them in the car/stroller myself, the meltdowns begin.

 

This was the same problem DH and I were having. We also started letting them walk to the stroller and car seat, making them think that this is fun to do since it was their idea and not ours all along.
With the high chair, when they were younger, we would just have to put them in as fast as we could but there were times we had to eat with a toddler in our lap because they just were not having it.

 

Same here but with DS. He grew out of it though once he realised there wasn´t much choice. They don´t protest so much now but Im waiting for the booster high chairs as I think they´ll be happier in those.

 

Thank you everyone! What a fun year of adventure ahead of us, and it is only Starting!!!
Looks like my little Nathaniel wants to be all grown up (too fast for me).

Ahhh, rite of passage.

 

I have to say I feel your pain! My DS, instead of sliding down, does a quick flip over to his front, escaping my best efforts to put the straps over his arms. He just turned 13 months old.