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I have a brother who is alot younger than me so I remember what we did when he acted out like this. The car seat thing, (if you have time!) we took him out and put him in the driveway and drove away. Cruel I know. But when we drove back (went 2 driveways down and turned around!), he was so shocked that we would just leave him, he started minding the carseat thing and when it's time to go, it is time to go.
Same with getting dressed. We took him to daycare and what do kids hate? Being Embarrassed!!! We let him go with just his diaper or pullups on. We said that if you do not get dressed and you will not let us help you, then you go without! Same with the neckhole vs armhole. If you put your neck through the wrong hole, then stick your arm in the neck and we go! No buts about it. Let him throw a fit if it's uncomfortable (only if it's not hurting him do this-obviously-). If you want to act like a fool, then you get to look like a fool. And when  you are at the grocery store and people look at him weird, just explain why you are doing it...you will get many strangers telling your child that he should listen to mommy!
Sorry so long! Good luck and you and your hubby & family are in our prayers.

of course she is a puppy! after the training on the leash she gets to run like crazy and do summersaults and just be a puppy! it is so funny to watch her just goof around. she barks at the dandilions (i know i need to weed!) and then she smells them and comes running to me and hides between my legs! it is hilarious! but when we are on the leash, she knows that she needs to sit in order for us to be able to begin. the first time, we were out there for almost a half hour until she sat, truely sat...instead, she laid down and went to sleep! ugh! but i stayed out there and waited til something woke her up and she started to run, i just stayed where i was and when she sat, i praised like heck! and told her "you sit, we go." and 5 steps later pretty much the same thing...laid down, noise, ran, stopped. "sit, we go" sat, praised, "sit, we go" and a few more steps. it took us over an hour to go around the house, but with lots of praise and some play in between we made it back to the back door!
but now, when she has to go potty, she sits and waits for her leash (she stands as the leash gets put on - i can't seem to get that part right! - and she sits again and she knows we can "go" then.
it is hard. very hard to have patience sometimes. most of the time. but like babies, they feel our feelings and feed off of it, so i am learning to calm down before i do anything with her or tell her to do an action.
we are working on stay right now.

I just posted the same question about 2 weeks ago and I am still in the learning process!
I love the idea of bite inhibition, but...I think my puppy is too hard headed to learn it as we go along.
She will get too excited after the YELP! or OUCH! and she gets all happy and wants to play more. I would immediately try to get out of where we have her little play area and she is too quick...she latches on to my pants and I can't get over the divider.
So, just last night I started using a spray bottle. She can't stand it. With just the littlest tooth on skin action...she gets sprayed.
This morning when I let her out to go potty I took the bottle with me, she got squirt twice. But on the third time, she went to mouth me and looked up, I let her decide what she wanted to do...and she chose correctly.
I was doing the turn the cheeks in and let her bite herself with her own pressure thing and I think she was getting aggressive with that. She would growl at me after she bit me because she knew what was coming!
So the water thing seems to help much more.

But along with so many others on here...I am learning just as much as the other new puppy parent!

Keep the questions coming...I am sure I will have the same ones! My puppy is about 9 weeks old and is a rott/mastiff. I keep reading about the breeds and even though they are extremely smart, they are hard headed as well! So I have to come up with ideas just for her cuz some of the other ideas just doesn't work.

We are using the spray bottle as I type.  She has truely responded to it quite well.
We tried the bowl thing again, and for now, she is okay with us moving the bowl but not having our hands in it. We can take it away just fine and put it back. I do think Peyton sees my boyfriend as the dominant one.
I have been doing some leash techniques everyday where we walk a few steps and stop and wait for her to sit (up to about 6 mins each time!) and when she sits, I walk a few steps then stop...so on and so on until we have gone around the house.
She wasn't the runt, she was the biggest of the litter (all females! not one boy!) but she was also the laziest, so I don't know if that makes a difference or not.
We unfortunately got her from a local pet store so we don't have the background on her from when she was born til we bought her. But from what the pet store told us, she was the biggest, the laziest and the quietest.
We took her to the vet within 48 hours of getting her (we got her the day before Easter) and he ran tests and had her first exams, and according to the results, she wasn't sick at all. She did have diarreah due to changes of food, but that was it.
Anyway, thank you for all your help and responces! If you still have more to tell me and more advice to give...Keep em coming! I need all the help I can get!
Thanks again!

Thank you. When I would do the muzzle thing with her cheeks, I wouldn't do any of the pressure, it all came from her alone. I just turned the cheeks in to let her feel how it felt to be poked with her sharp @$$ teeth. (I can't wait till those things fall out and to have less pointy teeth come in)

Whenever we feed Peyton, we have always put our hands on her or in the bowl so that she gets used to playing with her while she is eating. Last night I fed her and was in the process of going to pet her and she growled at me. Just a little one, but a growl non the less.
I do not know what to do.
I have also been gripping her jaw and cheeks when she bites and she has the hang of it "If I bite I get hurt." So when I go to get her muzzle so I can do that she growls at me. I am the only person she likes to bite on. My boyfriend can tell her "no" and she will stop. Me, she sinks her dang teeth into.
I do not know what to do.
I am saving up for obidience (sp) class for her which in the books and some on the web say to wait till they are 12 weeks old. That's in 3 weeks. I want to do it as soon as possible.
I am not sure if she is just having a problem with me in general or if she will continue challenging me with her growls. I know this food agression has to stop, but how? I do not want to put her down.

I need help!

To all who pay by the gallon for water for their fur kids...and their human kids and family members...don't!

Go down to your local starbucks and ask if you can fill your gallon up with their water! (IT'S FREE!)

Ever notice how starbucks ice water is better tasting than bottled water?

It is triple filtered reverse osmosis water! Look into it!

I work at starbucks and other people who have children and fur kids bring in their gallons to fill up...so I am passing on the info!

Good day, I am off to work...after I take Peyton out to go potty.