Hats 😆🤦🏼‍♀️

So my 18mo’s current favorite word is “hat” and everything is a hat. This is particularly fun at meal times, when forks, bowls, and every piece of food becomes a hat.

I have to bathe her after practically every meal, and she HATES getting her hair washed. But when it’s covered in goat cheese I really just don’t have a choice. So we’re both traumatized multiple times a day, and I’m getting exhausted.

Some of the things I’ve tried are: giving her an actual hat to wear during meals, putting a shower cap on her, ignoring it, ending the meal when she puts something on her head, grabbing her hand when she reaches towards her head and redirecting her.

Nothing has worked. Do I just need to ride this out until she gets tired of doing it, or does anyone have any miracle tips to help me? It’s been nearly a month of thrice daily baths and I desperately want it to stop 😂