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 remember having a massive tantrum once because my mum had put me in a particularly offensive pair of brown corduroy dungarees. I remember sitting under the dining room table screaming, then standing in the kitchen doorway screaming, and my mum finally cracking and shouting ‘what is the matter with you? Are you ill? No? Then STOP CRYING.’ I still think it was perfectly reasonable, those dungarees were awful.

I turned left at the roundabout to go home. He wanted to go home but to go in a different direction at the same time.

Dd offered me a blueberry. I had the temerity to accept it. Cue attached.

I'm laughing at these. I'm well past the toddler stage but I remember ds2 having the world's biggest tantrum because he wanted to go downstairs.
We were downstairs and don't have a cellar
I was telling him he could go downstairs too even though we didn't have one. No that made him worse.

DD2 regularly kicked off as a toddler because she wanted toast, but didn't want it toasted. She's now 4 and whilst apparently bright in many other ways, she still struggles to understand the relationship between bread and toast

Dd today - her Df was mowing the grass so she went to pieces as he was 'hurting it'

Cue a complicated conversation about hair cuts for the grass and demonstrating that it doesn't hurt!

Because her big brother walked past her bedroom on the way to get to his. Despite the fact that he has to walk past her room on the way to his room unless he scales the outside of the house.

Lost. her. Shit.

So glad i'm not alone with my 2.5 yr old! 😂

That hot milk cools down if you leave it too long, that her Paw Patrol stickers won't stick to the dog, that I won't put "sunscream" on her on rainy days indoors, that I told her caterpillars turn into butterflies when they don't (😂), that I won't let her eat "pockporn" (popcorn), that I have a dolphin inside my right ear that she can't get out and that I won't let her use a real screwdriver to fix her trike 😂😂😂

My earliest memory is of being absolutely furious with my Sindy Doll (remember the ones with eye lashes that stuck out?!).

The reason: There were shadows over her eyes. Made by her eyebrows. In my parents room lit only by a bedside lamp.

What did I do? I put her face down on the lamp to make the shadows go away.

My Mum tells me I was 3 when I set the house on fire

Years ago DS had a HUGE tantrum because we were going out and he wasn’t allowed to drive the car - he was 3

Goodness like so many others here so so many. Just yesterday my DS 10 threw a strop that I wouldn’t let him have apple pie for dessert after he had already had apple pie for dessert. Him and his sister 6 bickered the whole way home from visiting my mum in the car, all the usually he’s making too much noise, she’s touching me stuff that was all started because DS looked out of DD window when he has his own for my DD took offence and started picking fights.

DS threw a strop when I told him he couldn’t keep storing leftover toast behind the radiator because it would get mouldy. (His theory at 3 had been that the radiators get warm so it would just keep the toast warm....for days and weeks....)

DD as a toddler threw so so many tantrums if her sandwiches weren’t cut exactly right and even then she’d change her mind after the fact and meltdown.

DS at 3 or 4 didn’t want toast or cereal for breakfast he wanted a jam sandwich so deciding to pick my battles I made him a jam sandwich. He then threw it all in the bin because it was the wrong sandwich.

I standing at the bottoms of the steps to our front door while DS cries on the ground because he doesn’t want me to carry him but doesn’t want to walk up the steps. Eventually I just picked him up and let him continue to meltdown just inside our front door.

DS at around 2 or 3 was inconsolable that I wouldn’t let the horse use our toilet...I don’t know what horse he was talking about and at no point did I tell him whether or not a horse could or could not use the toilet.

Ha love these DS is 2.3 and we are currently having a lot of difficulty with directions

We’ll be out for a walk when he’ll suddenly crumple to the ground dramatically pointing and wailing about going “that waaaaay”. Ok, no problem, let’s go that way “nooooo mummy that waaaay” errr ok, change direction again, “NO THAT WAAAAAY” oh FFS we’ve tried 3 options when it should have been a simple right or left. He does not seem to know why he wants to go “that waaaay”

He also had an absolute meltdown because my mum gently said there was no moon. At 8am on a bright sunny day. “Where is it? A moon! Where is it?” And then poor old grandma got a thump on the leg for her transgression. Toddlers are weird.

When I was being potty trained myself I lost it in the zoo because the elephant did a poo and didn't use a potty. Full blown snot and tears 🐘

Not on the wrong feet. In a very loud voice.

Mine had a melt that the moon existed, he hadn't seen it before and was terrified to see a ball in the sky.
I felt bad for him he was so shocked but happily happened to be recording him when he did a cartoon double take which was a thing of beauty.

He also had an absolute meltdown because my mum gently said there was no moon. At 8am on a bright sunny day.

Well, he had a point, really, didn't he? Being told that something he sees regularly has just stopped existing because it's daytime must be quite bewildering. Might have been better for your mum to find a way of explaining that it's there but you can't see it when the sun's out.

Acis she did. She was trying to explain in a very nice way, that the moon went to bed in the daytime so you couldn’t see it. She said “oh! No moon. Mr moon has gone to bed...” and then my toddler fell screaming to the floor.

Sorry for not typing every single word on a lighthearted thread about toddlers crying about all sorts

DS is 9, so you'd think we'd be well beyond tantrums. However he had the full on snotty rage the other day because there were only 24 hours in the day. He thought it meant 24 hours of 'day' i.e. light, and therefore 24 hours of night also. Apparently the world "just doesn't make sense"

DGS doesn't do full on meltdowns yet, but his strops are hilarious. After being told off for climbing onto the fireguard yet again, he got his reins (which a little knapsack attached) and went to the door shouting "I go nanna".
DW: "Which nanna?" (He has three and a great nanna)
"Other nanna!"
"Any nanna

I love the innocence of mind that imagines you can reason with a toddler.

Mine has just burst into the most terrified sobs - not a meltdown, but real absolute terror, for which I feel bad - because the cat very carefully climbed onto her chair to say hello.

She has been fascinated with this cat for an entire year (it's not ours). She cries when it goes out of the garden. She dashes to tell me it's back again. Etc.

Yet will she stroke the cat or accept the cat trying to make friends? No, she will not.

The cat is an unusually patient and child-loving cat, I think, or I cannot imagine why it would keep coming back to a house where a small toddler regularly screams earpiercingly to welcome it and then refuses all attempts at contact.

Ds went batshit last night whilst I was trying to dry his hair, then, when his hair was dry, continued to go batshit because he wanted his hair wet again so I could continue to dry it. Despite being annoyed by it getting wet the first time.

Then in a fit of pique he actually stopped speaking to me and made his dad take him to bed instead. Literally harumphed, stuck his nose up at me and went and got hold of his dad's hand. He's 2 and a half.

God, mine has had a similar one. Very upset because the clouds were up high and she couldn't touch them. Also very upset that trees were so tall and I couldn't get them down for her.

Once because she wanted me to hold her hand as she fell asleep, but also annoyed because I had to touch her to do so.

We also went through a phase for a couple of weeks where she wanted to wear her 2 favourite pairs of shoes at the same time and was furious that she couldn't fit one shoe over the other 🙄

Oh, and a few times now, on the way home from nursery, upset because she didn't want to ride her scooter but then even more upset when I say she can walk instead and I'll carry the scooter.

I remember my nephew once crying because his knee itched.

Dd used to get really cross if you referred to her having "bare legs" or a "bare bum"

"I AM NOT A BEAR!"

The cat is an unusually patient and child-loving cat, I think, or I cannot imagine why it would keep coming back to a house where a small toddler regularly screams earpiercingly to welcome it and then refuses all attempts at contact I imagine it's just fucking with you Oh, did I upset the small human again? Shame. Must do it again tomorrow

Could be that too, of course.