What has been your favourite tamtrum?

[SoupDragon]

We all know that rationality doesn't feature high on the list of Toddler Traits. Following on from Lou33s Longest Tantrum thread, what has been your favourite reason for a toddler tantrum?

Mine is when DS1 (2) wanted to carry newborn DS2 in his 1st stage carseat. He simply couldn't grasp that he was physically incapable of picking something that heavy up even though I let him try. Ah, the poor little mite cried for a good 10 minutes over that one

[codswallop]

those tantrums when they cant remember what it was about and involve lying down when you are out. Luckily only happened a couple of times!!

[WideWebWitch]

Broken food. Aaaggghh, you can't put a Curly Wurly back together.

[hmb]

'I want X', 'Here it is', 'Don't want X', 'Don't have it then', 'WWWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAA' Ad Nausiam, for the better part of 3 years. Good job she was so cute

[josiejump]

My favourite one was ds1, having a bigboy tantrum ( age 4 ) on the way home from nursery. He had lost the plot over the fact that he wanted a surprise ( smack round the chops surprising enough??? ). Anyway, tried diversion tactics and pointed out the moon in the sky.... " Nooooo, it's the wrong shape". I give up!

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Josiejump

[codswallop]

when they wont go home or move froma certain spot on the pavement

[Wills]

www - love it!

[expatkat]

Snap, www: broken food. Or if i peel the top off the yogurt or accidentally put the straw in the juice box for him--all can and do lead to tantrums.

And once ds saw me dilute his apple juice with water. He began wailing and ordered me to "get the water out." So I poured a bit of the diluted juice into the sink and said, "I've just poured out the water, and now it's only juice." He was satisfied and drank it. I've learned to be savvy

[Metrobaby]

Dd's recent one was whilst we in Centreparcs. We were right in the middle of the main bit where everyone passes through (ie where the swimming area and restaurants were). She started screaming as she wanted to be wrapped up in a towel, and carried (like a baby). I refused. Cue: full scale mega one, rolling on the ground etc etc. Tried to ignore her, but then dd was getting concerned looks off strangers who thought she had been abandoned (I felt like doing so at the time ). I hauled her up, to physically remove her, and as I was walking away she wet herself. Lovely !

[lou33]

Ditto the savvy stuff. Ds1 insists on his milk being warm, and can tell when it is milk that has been defrosted and goes mad !!! I devise all sorts of ways to get him to drink it. Tantrums are us.

[lou33]

Lol@ balamory Sobernow! Ds2 calls it Balarory (Rory being his name).

[sibble]

DS is not known for tantrums, occasionally "broken food" one as below but today he has had 3 years worth all rolled into one. Was a complete sh*t all the time we were at his friend's house to play (friend from kindy and first time I had met mother, been over etc.). He was given the "play nicely or we will go" statement when he completely flipped, pushed baby (7 months over), bit his "friend" and generally went for it. Scooped him under arm, on putting him in car, he has bitten my face, pulled chunks of hair out and kicked me black and blue!!! Got him outside before he threw up on her carpet screaming. Fortunately he is now asleep while I decide if we dare meet the friends we are due to meet in an hour.
I am still seething.
Little darlings!!!

[ames]

My dd has always had a obsession for the tellytubbies so kast christmas when she was nearly 1 I bought her 3 or the four ( part of the Boots 3 for 2 offer!) thinking she wouldn't mind not having Tinkywinky (not being over keen on him/her myself!) Boy was I wrong she screamed and threw herself on the floor everytime we showed them to her until we got her Tinkywinky.
Recently we went to friends who have a toddler and whilst playing with his toy's she came across Noo Noo on the way out she casually picked it up and toddled off, clutching it very tightly. When we tried to remove Noo Noo she had the worst tantrum to date and was inconsolable.
The result? We owe them one Noo Noo!

[SoupDragon]

WWW - we had that with biscuits! According to the "experts" it's because a broken biscuit doesn't match their mental picture of a biscuit and therefore is no longer a biscuit.

I once put milk on the last of the Coco Pops and DS2 threw a wobbly as he didn't want milk on them. I've learnt my lesson and ask about the milk first now!

[breeze]

The best one I was probably responsible for, I told him that if he was good today when we went to the shop he could have freddo (chocolate frog), when we got there as he had been good I said he could, when we got there, it was empty only a empty box left, I kindly explained this to DS who then said there is one there, I calmly told him again its empty and showed him the box, at which point I walked off and he then lost it and spend the next 2 minutes screaming and having the worst tantrum ever. He kept repeating there was on. So to shut him up I carried him back kicking and screaming to show him again empty box "SEE" I said, then I dropped my purse and as I bent down to pick it up, I could see that one had falled down the back on the shelf and it was only visable from underneath. Did I feel guilty.

[WideWebWitch]

These are hilarious, I'm sitting here laughing my head off. Which is easy to do in retrospect... Josiejump (I was sniggering about that all evening), Sobernow and Soupy at a biscuit no longer being a biscuit, priceless! I also remember that peeling a banana could be the end of the world if he wanted to do it so expatkat, your juice/straw/water thing rings a (fairly unpleasant) bell too.

[FairyMum]

My 2-year-old loves to watch the planes in the sky, but it always ends in a major tantrum when mummy can't pick the plane down from the sky for him to have. Unfortunately we live under a fligh path ,-)

[Enid]

Broken food - our best was an egg white that wasnt perfectly round. Cue massive tantrum. My friends ds had one about the hole in polo mint (he didnt want it there).

[M2T]

ROFL!

Ds has one every night when he gets home from Nursery coz I won't let him run on the road. Hmm.... for the record he has never been allowed to run on the road.

Also had one the other night on the way up to bed coz dp forgot to let him say Night Night to a paint bubble on the skirting board that dp has affectionately informed ds, is a bird poo.

[fergusfife]

My 19 month old son has temper tantrums 3 or 4 times during the night after bed time. These consist of him getting out of bed rattling his gate and shouting dadadadadada! Once you get out of bed and he sees you he hurls his dodie and bottle over the gate and throws himself on the floor. We've then got to pick up the bottle and dodie first before lifting him back into bed and quickly giving them back (wo betide if it's done the other way around)cover his head with the quilt and "vault" the gate. He then goes to sleep until the next time. Around 5ish we give up and let him in our bed!

[oscarsmum]

In the children's play area at Butlins when ds couldn't quite reach to put some plastic plates into the microwave on one of those Little Tikes kitchens. According to dh (who couldn't stop laughing) he went mad, hitting the thing with a saucepan. The worst bit? It was his first tantrum and when I tried to recreate it the next day (heh! how about putting this plate into this microwave?) he just walked away. Dh still teases me that I missed it.

[SoupDragon]

These are marvellous!

Is there a Mums on Toddlers book planned? This would make nice reassuring chapter together with the Longest Tantrum one

[Chinchilla]

This happened today...ds managed to whack himself in the face with a toy, not too badly, but it still must have hurt a bit. Anyway, cue crying. So I scooped him up to give him a big cuddle, and he started hitting me as if it was MY fault. There's gratitude for you!