Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Chat

Join the discussion and chat with other Mumsnetters about everyday life, relationships and parenting.

Original poster

Ridiculous things that infuriate your toddler.

129 replies

MustardScreams · 13/05/2019 18:47

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!! Wine

OP posts:
Sexnotgender · 15/05/2019 15:08

Also tantrums because daddy (vet) couldn't mend a headless goose by the river

Fantastic Grin

ImTheOnlyUpsyOne · 15/05/2019 15:12

Iggle Piggle doesn't fit in the Hot Wheels car.

The Playmobil men's legs don't bend at the knee

A cheerio on the floor... a baked bean on the floor... a Pom Bear on the floor....you see where this is going lol

SecretWitch · 15/05/2019 15:24

I remember the day my daughter went mad as she didn’t have a penis to pee from

My son went mad when his sister took “the new” of his LEGO by playing with it first.

I went mad when they were in the backseat fighting viscously over a broken McDonald’s toy.

UpToMyElbowsInDiapers · 15/05/2019 16:07

Last night she wrapped soup in a tortilla and was devastated when some dripped out. She kept crying at the soup: “stop moving!”

We later read a book about a train who can jump through flaming hoops, like a circus act (?!). She was wildly upset when she jumped but no ring of fire appeared around her.

purpleboy · 15/05/2019 16:24

DD (now 5 then 2) was most upset when she told 'talking tom' (toy that repeats what you say) this is my daddy, Tom repeated this is my daddy ensuring a full blown row with Tom about how everything in the house was hers tv, cushion, toy, book etc... every time she told him he repeated it back. She was incandescent with rage and still doesn't like him to this day 😂

Honestly the funniest thing I've ever witnessed luckily all caught on video too!

Narya · 15/05/2019 16:32

He wanted to pull Daddy's glasses off. Unlike Mummy, Daddy doesn't wear glasses.

problembottom · 15/05/2019 20:23

My DD is only four months but DP and I took my nieces, then 3&5, to Pizza Express. The girls went for a wee just before the main course and I made the mistake of flushing the loo for the younger one. A grave, grave error. A 15 minute stand off ensued with wailing niece refusing to pull her trousers back up. Eventually I worked out that if we pretended to do another wee and niece flushed the loo we could actually go and eat our now cold pizzas.

Original poster
MustardScreams · 15/05/2019 20:55

@purpleboy that has cracked me up! I can just imagine it. And it’s reminded me never to buy one for dd Grin

OP posts:
purpleboy · 16/05/2019 13:00

Mustard, it's the funniest thing I've ever seen, the more she told him the stuff was her the angrier she got when he repeated it!! 😂

footchewer · 16/05/2019 15:17

Does anyone have a template for the mythical correctly-shaped and correctly-sized piece of toast to which we all forlornly aspire?

randomsabreuse · 16/05/2019 15:40

I think it doesn't exist!

FurrySlipperBoots · 16/05/2019 15:47

@footchewer

Dinosaur shaped pieces made with a biscuit cutter? Of course you can only get 2 small dinosaurs out of 1 slice of toast, and then you're left with the rest of the outline which you get for your breakfast. Mmm, soggy cold toast crusts, my favourite...

Original poster
MustardScreams · 16/05/2019 18:16

@footchewer it’s a cross between no crusts, triangle, square, big and small. And you’ll nevertheless know which until the last second when it’s too late

OP posts:
GarthFunkel · 16/05/2019 18:31

I thought I'd got the toast thing sorted with a selection of sandwich cutters as well as the basic knife cutting option. Alas...

My 13 year old still doesn't eat her crusts. I thought I'd be helpful this week and cut them off her sandwiches before I placed them in her lunchbox. Ha ha. She came home complaining there wasn't any crusts. But you don't eat the crusts, I said. She said but I do. And I said no, I take them out of your lunchbox every day. And she said no you don't. I said yes I do. And then she said "but I like eating them on the way home." So it doesn't get any easier.

NCB2019 · 16/05/2019 18:32

My DS was about 3 maybe 4 at the time. He said he was hungry so I asked if he wanted a snack. He said yes and I asked him what he wanted. He politely I asked for toast. I asked him how he wanted it cut. I went to the kitchen, made toast, cut it the way he required and called him in to eat it. He yelled 'THAT'S NOT TOAST!! I WANT TOAST!'

I was puzzled but finally managed to work out what I did wrong.... I put it in the toaster!!

FFS the child wanted bread and butter. He knew it was called bread so no idea why he didn't ask for it. 😂

saturdaynightgin · 16/05/2019 18:35

DD(3) had a meltdown because my ‘nose holes’ were too big and I wouldn’t close them Hmm

NannaNoodleman · 16/05/2019 19:05

Tonight he wanted to take his rugby trainers off but he was wearing his sandals!

Katinski · 16/05/2019 19:26

purpleboy, another cracked up mum here too.GrinGrinGrin

Tiptopj · 16/05/2019 19:31

Didn't want to eat his half chewed left overs ...cue a tantrum
Decided it would be easier to just eat some half chewed left overs ...cue another tantrum!

millythepink · 16/05/2019 20:21

When she was 3 our DD would fly into a blind rage if she was told she couldn't marry Daddy.

DS loved being on the beach but had a pathological hatred for the sea. Cue several years of DH having to construct a large sand bulkhead for DS to sit behind so he didn't have to look at the sea.

NorthernRunner · 16/05/2019 20:25

My now 4.5yr old had a right oddly one evening after bath when she was around 3 because I told her she couldn’t rub her nipples off with a towel. HmmGrin I blame the unrealistic baby dolls she had 🤦🏻‍♀️😆

ellesbellesxxx · 16/05/2019 20:30

This is very reassuring...

I shared my ice cream with ds... he wasn’t happy as wanted it all. I had a bit more, gave the last bit (a good third of it!) to him... nope, threw it in the sand in rage. So no one got that beautiful ice cream 🤦‍♀️

nannygoat50 · 18/05/2019 17:25

He wanted to wear orange trousers . We don’t have or have ever had orange trousers 😱

Daisymaybe60 · 18/05/2019 17:48

My DGS flew into a rage this week when I ate a grape from my own plate because he wanted that one - I offered him the rest to choose from but he went ballistic because I wouldn't get that one out of my stomach and give it to him. I'm so mean.

Whitelisbon · 18/05/2019 17:55

Dc5 is hideous at the moment, she had a lying on the floor outside Primark screaming for 10 minutes tantrum last week because I wouldn't let her jump in the puddle. Said puddle is actually a deep river, and, as such, isn't jumpable in.

Although, on one memorable occasion, dc1 and 2 (now 16 and 13, then approx 6 and 3) argued constantly in the car one day - he looked out her window, she breathed, he sung, she looked at him, you know those days? Well, they started arguing over a McDonald's toy - it supposedly belonged to both of them, and neither would share. After 5 minutes or so of trying to ignore them, I ordered one of them to give me the toy, opened the window, and launched it out. At 60mph on the bypass Blush
I'm not proud, but they were remarkably quiet for a while Grin