Ridiculous things that infuriate your toddler.

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Dd has a proper screamy meltdown on the walk home from nursery this evening because the moon wouldn’t come down to the floor.

To make matters worse, when she couldn’t see it behind houses it was ‘lost’ and she was inconsolable. I can fix wrong coloured bowls, but I can’t get the bloody moon down.

Regale me with your toddler’s furies so I know I’m not the only one!!

I randomly get loads of tears because someone looked at DD Could be anyone! Her sister, grandma, cousin etc?!

I was the mum selotaping a banana skin that had been peeled too far down this morning. FML

Her brother looked at her.

Daddy (who wasn’t actually home at the time) wasn’t looking at her.

There was peanut butter on the peanut butter toast she asked for.

Her brother wouldn’t walk with her (when he was 3 months old).

It wasn’t Tuesday...

Also, DH is allowed to call DS "mate" but I am absolutely not.

Putting raisins on top of her Weetabix instead of on the side. Insisting that she puts trousers on before leaving the house. Shutting the front door. Not letting her fiddle with the lights in the car. Informing her that a kangaroo is a kangaroo, not a 'big rabbit'. Not letting her drink from her sick brother's drinking bottle. This means I am a Naughty Mummy and have to Go To Bed, Now.

Oh, and thanks for the tip for mending 'broken' bananas with a chopstick - I need that one!

@Cinnemom - same here but with crackers. Heaven forbid the butter holding the split cracker together should stop doing its job. And how very dare I cut up his slice of French bread so he can actually get it into his mouth.

Last week he went nuts because we gave him the rabbit soft toy with only one ear (thanks, DM dog) while two eared bunnies were all having a "bath". DH calmed him down by saying that one eared bunny is hurting and that's not a nice way to treat disabled/multilated bunnies

Haha mine are 12 and 14 and her brother looking at her still leads to tantrums!

She asked for the lid of her yoghurt to be taken off. I took it off.

My young toddler was driven to tears of rage because his snack bowl was empty. His bowl was empty, because he'd taken his rice cake out of it and was holding the rice cake in the opposite hand. I told him. Pointed to it. And eventually showed him, before he would calm down.

He then didn't want to eat it 🤨

'Nooooooo

No yellow juice on pink fish Mummy'

I love these lol

Can't get through a door because it's the pull side of the door and they are standing so close to the door that there's no space to open it
Wanting pizza, but wanting it to be pizza that has already been cooked
Someone looked at her
Neighbour's cat wouldn't say hello
Wants to move as quickly as in the buggy, but by walking. Also doesn't want to walk fast.
Anything touching anything on her dinner plate

She's seven now, god love her. She's mostly reasonable these days. There was a whole two year period where the only pictures of her I could take were ones of her flapping and yelling.

Is that Reasons my Son is Crying website still going?

Friends DD has a full on crying tantrum because she wanted the last grape. She'd eaten the last grape but hadn't realised it was the last one then was upset because she hadn't been able to enjoy it.

I must still be at least part toddler because I get where she’s coming from.

I wouldn't let her pull the dogs tail.
Also wouldn't let her walk home from school on her own. She's 4

• She couldn't walk home from nursery by herself.
• The nursery teacher wouldn't open the gate so she could come home to mummy - by herself.
• Her oreo broke in half. Easily fixed, but not when it's thrown on the floor and stepped on in rage.
• Her orange juice wasn't purple.
• She wanted to jump in puddles but it hadn't rained.
• Her ice cream was 'slipping' (melting) too slowly.
• When ANYTHING gets on her hands. Which leads to a huge, confusing outburst when she wants to do play-doh - but not touch it.
• She couldn't wear armbands to the shop.
• She can't drive the car.

Today I was trying to keep us out of the house as we’ve got builders in, so I told 3-year-old DD we’d have a picnic in the park for lunch. She excitedly told her toy dinosaur about it.

Two minutes later she started crying because she didn’t want a picnic.

Just today -
I wouldn't let her eat sand.
When she pushed a ball down the slide, it rolled down the slide.
When she sprayed water in her own face her face was wet.
Her ice lolly was cold.
She couldn't get her wellies on over the top of her trainers.

Hahaha, these are so familiar! I once nannied for a little girl who, as a toddler, had an utter meltdown because she desperately wanted her window open in the car, but absolutely no breeze to come in... That lasted half an hour until she fell asleep.

she wants to go out but doesn't want to get dressed

Jeez, we still have this one at 12yo. Stamping feet and slammed doors and everything. Once she's out, she's happy as Larry.....

Forgot the absolute white hot fury when I won't let her drive. She's forgotten about it a bit more since we turned her seat to forward facing but it was every time we got in the car- for months.

Now she's happy to settle for relentless back seat driving: "mind that car mummy! Don't crash! Don't drive on the path! Mind the corner!" I don't know how I managed to survive the last 15 years with my driving licence without her commentary.

I ate the bit of pear that she didn't want and said I could eat. Then I wouldn't take it out of my tummy and give it back to her.

Because my friend's baby isn't called Brian

Bloody hell, tears this morning because obviously the moon wasn’t there.

All you stories are hilarious! Obviously not for the parents at the time. But they’ve cheered me up dealing with dd’s moon fixation.

My 4yr old SD had an absolute meltdown at me because it was cold and raining.

Turns out she thought I had an app on my phone to control the weather!