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!!

My two year old had a tantrum because I wouldn’t let her put her clean cup that had just come out of the dishwasher back into the dishwasher with the dirty crockery.
She didn’t want to go on the toilet.
I wouldn’t let her help me wash up. Oh, like the rest of you, I could go on! 😊

My eldest wasn't much of a tantrummer but he did have one massive meltdown because…
I put his spoon in his yoghurt for him. Cried solidly for half an hour. Didn't matter that I took the spoon out again.

Ds2 used to tantrum just because he'd women up. Would go on and on, just screaming. It nearly broke me.

My DTs threw an epic tantrum because I tried to take them home because they were tired - it seems they wanted to sleep in the garden.

DS likes to pat cars, and threw a tantrum because I wouldn’t let him pat any/all of the cars in a packed car park, and another one because I wouldn’t let him lick our car.

They’re only 15 months, I thought tantrums didn’t start until they were older 😬

This morning DS cried because his foot touched the ground. We were walking, when I picked him up, I got told off for picking him up and he wanted to walk. But not if his foot touched the ground!

I was breathing while she was sprawled on me and the resulting natural rise and fall of my chest was apparently incredibly offensive.

My DS isn't a toddler anymore he's 3, nearly 4, but the other day he didn't want to get dressed, he was saying "I'm not doing it" whilst putting his arms in his T-shirt.

Then refused to put his trousers on so I said "OK go to your Aunties in just your Undies" he thought about it for a few seconds then paddied because he wanted to put his trousers on.

I sang. She hates my singing.
I'm not sure why, cos I'm actually pretty good

DD's best tantrum was because her bread was too big. I cut it in two, hysterical tears because the bread was now broken...

Also tantrums because daddy (vet) couldn't mend a headless goose by the river, or our town's ruined castle.

Accepted the craziness of toddler logic on that day... but actually I prefer toddler logic to threenager contrarians!

I peeled the banana he wanted peeling. Except he didn’t want it peeling. But he did. But he didn’t.

She wanted her ice cream warming up 🤷🏼‍♀️

My 3 yo gets really angry and upset when the 1 yo looks at him in the car. Baby happens to be very smiley and friendly which 3yo interprets as laughing at him. He will bury his face in the car seat in rage.

Also taking lids off yoghurts for him, cutting toast the wrong way, all the usual traumas.

I think the worst one recently is that he asked for a banana, so I gave him one and a half, giving half of one to his 11 month old brother. He was then tearful that his brother was getting to eat some banana, even though this meant that he got more than one. He only likes his brother having a snack when he gives him his snack himself, it's a tragedy that I hand my own baby a piece of food.

If I want to wind her up I explain that I am married to her daddy. I married him before she was even born. Jealous rage ensues so I tend not to mention that fact too often.

I “tucked in” her doll with a little striped towel, but the stripes were going in the wrong direction.

Because it's windy. Because there's sunshine. Because it's raining. Because the swing swung back when she pushed it. Because teddy won't sit up unaided. Because she sticks on the slide when she won't put her clothes on. Because the chalks won't draw a dinosaur on the floor all by themselves. Because her scooter won't go in a straight line at all times. Because there are no pedals on her bike. Because her bike tips over. Because she had to stop pushing the trolley when we got to the checkout. Because she has to ride in her car seat and can't drive the car. Because she wants her ice cream back that she ate half of this morning and have the rest to the dog. Because the dog won't sit still to be climbed on. Because the cat won't sit still to be talked (shouted) at. Because the bunny biscuits aren't ready to eat before they've been in the oven.

She's an emotional wreck at the moment!! Makes me laugh a lot though

He's 15 now but she he was a toddler he had a meltdown in his car seat because he wanted the windscreen wipers turned off. In heavy rain. Full screaming ab dabs. It still makes me shudder thinking about that 3 hour journey!!

DH couldn't mend the dead cockroach DD found.

Last night DS had a massive tantrum because he wanted to go to the park, but not on the swings (we weren’t on the swings

Not exactly a tantrum but when I told DD (then 2, now 7) that she wasn’t allowed to sit on my knee for a car journey she looked me dead in the eye and told me ‘mummy you are ruining my day!’

He doesn't want to go to playschool.
Once at playschool, he doesn't want to come home from playschool.

He was doubly annoyed when yesterday he had to both go to playschool AND have sun cream applied before he went. He protested with vigorous disgust the whole walk there. An old lady smiled knowingly and sympathetically at me it was that bad

I wouldn’t let her put blusher on. Because she’s 15 months old!

Did gets really cross if she hurts someone. Then she will hit us in temper because she's upset she hurt us.

Also saying no to ice lollies she throws herself on the floor and screams that she's starving to death.

She always telling me I'm not her best friend anymore if I tell her off. This morning I said that's ok I will be Daddies best friend and she had a meltdown because Daddy is her best friend so I can't be as well.

Toddler at work broke out in rage they wanted the orange pencil but not that OR this orange pencil ! I looked over at mum bemused she just hid behid her coffee cup

My worst parenting fail came during one of ds1's 'Terrible Two' tantrums - it's a story I have shared here, a number of times - mainly to reassure other mums of toddlers that they are doing just fine, because I have done far worse than them.

The previous night, ds1 had had a huge tantrum, lasting over an hour and a half - I can't remember why now (he is nearly 26, so I think I can be excused). That morning, it was not yet 9am, and he'd already been screaming for 45 minutes, and I was on the phone to dh, in tears, saying I couldn't cope.

Suddenly it went quiet, so put the phone down and went to investigate - silence, in toddlers, is always a Bad Sign. Ds1 was standing by the full kitchen bin, eating the leftover Doritos that dh and I had thrown in there last night, when we didn't finish them all.

That's not the worst part. The worst part is that I stood there and had a debate with myself over whether to stop ds1 enjoying his tasty bin snack - I knew that, if I stopped him, he would start tantrumming again, and I just couldn't face it, so I let him carry on eating until he'd had enough and wandered off to play - then I emptied the bin and found a new home for it, in a cupboard, so he couldn't go back for seconds.

He couldn't fit the rain cover for his pushchair, over his inflatable giraffe 🙄