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Can we have a lighthearted toddler tantrum thread please?

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Pannacottaformeplease · 04/05/2020 21:33

I'll start. The reason my DD had a tantrum today is because I threw away the squashed half banana that she was using to decorate the patio doors. It lasted over an hour.

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vampirethriller · 05/05/2020 07:15

Yesterday:
I touched her head
She wanted a spoon so I gave her one
I stopped her putting raisins in her nappy
She's not allowed to hit the dog with her slippers

So far today:
She's not allowed to lick the dog

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Pannacottaformeplease · 05/05/2020 08:13

A lot of these seem to involve cats and dogs. A friend of mine's toddler was very upset because it was the cat's birthday and there was no cake. The cat ended up getting its own cake!

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Sunny345H · 05/05/2020 08:17

I wouldn't let him play with the half empty beer can he found behind a bush.

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Goldenhedgehogs · 05/05/2020 08:25

Not quite a toddler tantrum as my child was in school nursery but she once had full on tears and sobs because I wouldn't let her keep "just one, as a pet". I was nit combing her hair!

51Pegasusb · 05/05/2020 08:37

Relatively calm few days here, we have the usualy don;t lick the dog, don't touch the TV don't throw things etc. But last week we had a good one at another level!
DH closed the stair gate after he came through it, DS (3) wanted to close the stair gate, that is all it was. Cue an epic meltdown of screaming and physically trying to pull the gate off the wall, the noise was bad, 10 min into it, DS (3) is laying on the floor kicking the stair gate, DH and I are still ignoring, DS (18) comes down and has a head-fit at DS (3) which shocks DS (3) into stopping for about 30 seconds and the turning into huge racking sobs ! This was all at 6:30am.
I got a coffee and took the dog to sit peacefully in the garden leaving the DS's and DH to it.
I am not a morning person.
Sympathy for everyone who has a toddler and in lock down, it's a nightmare !

Missannelliot · 05/05/2020 08:42

These are so funny!

DS (18 months) has been having recurring tantrums this week because his shadow keeps following him. He tries to run away but he just can’t lose it!! Smile

To be fair to him we live in Scotland so all this sunshine is a new experience for him!!

NCParanoia · 05/05/2020 10:31

Because I stopped my 2 and a half yo "putting beads in my bum so I can fart them out mama"

TheoneandObi · 05/05/2020 10:33

Her socks we're uncomfortable
I think we'd run out of fabric conditioner Hmm

BearSoFair · 05/05/2020 10:37

Many years ago now but I'm always reminded of the epic tantrum then 2yo DD had when we bought home baby DS2 because he was a baby and not...a goat Grin She was obsessed with them for years, when he was around 2 he'd upset her somehow and she brought it up again and shouted at him "you should have been a goat!" Grin

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Pannacottaformeplease · 05/05/2020 19:43

@BearSoFair that's so funny!

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Dingdongthewitchisbread · 05/05/2020 20:01

My 2 year old DD was having her bath, she decided it was the end of bath time, pulled the plug and put all the toys in the box. She then proceeded to have a huge melt down because she didn’t want the water to go!

LisaSimpsonsbff · 05/05/2020 20:50

This isn't a tantrum but I feel it's in the spirit of the thread... dH was practising 'please' and 'thank you' with DS earlier and I heard the following conversation:

'what do you say if someone gives you something?'
'ta ooh'
'that's right! What do you say if you want someone to give you something?'
'SNACK!'

Grin
chunkycoke · 05/05/2020 20:58

On our walk today DS1 had a tantrum because I wouldn't let him 'zamime' (examine) the pile of dog poo we saw.

Sevo7 · 05/05/2020 21:43

Ds is older now but his toddler tantrums were epic! Most memorable include such delights as:

Because I flushed his favourite poo away in Tesco toilets and he wanted to keep it. That tantrum lasted the entire shop with him screaming and wailing “But mummy I want poopey poooo!”

Having a massive tantrum at a big family meal In a pub restaurant because he didn’t want to eat his dinner...after he’d already happily eaten it Hmm That one went on for hours and there was absolutely no reasoning with him that he didn’t have to eat it, because he already eaten it Confused and that it didn’t matter any more! When I finally snapped and said “Fine, you don’t have to eat it!” He started with “but I want to eat it” and the whole thing started again! Even the memory of that day makes me feel tense! Confused

Kokapetl · 05/05/2020 21:56

Mine shouted at her brother for moving her toothpaste which made him cry (he is older and it is normally water off a ducks back but he was tired and feeling ill and this was too much). Him crying upset her so much that she was inconsolable for several minutes. That was a fun bath time.

Bugbeau · 05/05/2020 21:57

I brought her warm milk, when she asked for warm milk, but she actually wanted cold milk!

Solasum · 05/05/2020 22:37

When DS was about 3 he wept inconsolably ‘These things on my legs are not trousers’ (summer time, so he was wearing shorts)

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Pannacottaformeplease · 06/05/2020 07:01

You've all cheered me up so much with these :)

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Lightofthephoenix · 06/05/2020 09:48

22 months, She playing outside with water toys, then threw a tantrum at herself for getting herself wet after pouring a jug of water over her own head.

Then she did it again and screamed even more.

CigarsofthePharoahs · 06/05/2020 10:10

Ds1 rarely tantrummed. The most memorable was when I gave him his yoghurt with the spoon already in it. He howled. So I took the spoon out and he howled even louder. Then I took the yoghurt away and that made it worse. So I brought the yoghurt back.
I ended up taking him up for his nap with him yelling "Nooooo spooooooon" over and over.
Ds2 tantrummed over everything. He woke from his nap. Tantrum. Every day. For about an hour. Proper broke me, that did.

Deathraystare · 06/05/2020 10:21

because the dog wouldn’t play the ukulele.

That dog has some attitude!!!

These are great. Really cheered me up (sorry!). I can laugh, safe in the knowledge none of the above posts will ever happen to me as I haven't got kids and am too old now anyway!!!!

Deathraystare · 06/05/2020 10:25

The cat wouldn't sing happy birthday when presented with a wooden birthday cake. I made the mistake of telling DD it was the cat's birthday, the cat is now banned from having birthdays, especially when she won't wish herself happy birthday.

Oh Gawd, now a cat is in trouble!

With all the tantrums they have at that age it is a wonder they have anything left for their teen years, but they do!!!!!

FairfaxAikman · 06/05/2020 14:10

I tried to get him to do something other than just stand ankle deep in the paddling pool.

He's just standing there, won't get out, won't sit, won't splash...

FenellaMaxwell · 06/05/2020 16:07

@Katinski @TyroSaysMeow @Deathraystare
To be fair, the dog hasn’t helped herself by being willing to play the piano in the past, so I sort of follow DS’s logic about the ukulele Grin

Crankycranium0 · 06/05/2020 16:51

Mine are all teenagers now, but 2 that I remember clearly are ds having a 20 minute meltdown because his peas were green🤨 he wanted blue ones and screamed for ever that they should be blue and dd had an almighty tantrum because I wouldn't let her wear her poo filled nappy as a hat.

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