A few days later she called and said she figured out why he strips down the minute he walks in our door. When his dad gets home from work each night, he takes off his work pants and puts on sweat pants. The kids were little, maybe 3 or so when he did this, so he assumed that is just what you do when you walk in the door. Sort of like Mr. Rogers and his sweaters and shoes, but a little more funny.

My advice would be “Legalize and Regulate” Examples of what I mean are:

“Ian, if you want to be naked, you can be naked in your bedroom or the bathroom. Those two places you can be naked for as long as you want and as often as you want.”

or

Get out your egg/kitchen timer and tell Ian “Every day we’ll be having ‘Naked Time’, I’ll set the timer, you take your pants off and when the timer goes off, the pants go back on.”

I remember when my sons were that age I would have to tell them “That’s not the kind of living we do in the living room. You want to live like that, fine, but do it in your bedroom or bathroom.”

Not that I am repressed, kids can be naked anywhere in the house if that works for your family. But for most, it seems that regulating nakedness to bedrooms and bathrooms. But if you are okay with where they are naked, then the timer approach might help curb the amount of nudity instead of redirecting where it occurs.

They both went through that stage around 4 where I couldn’t turn around or they’d be naked.

I got use to see a lot of little nuts.

Oh, wait, that’s probably not appropriate. Damn.

When oldest two were very young I considered it a victory that they both had diapers on when we greeted the mailman.

Good luck.