Please make me feel better and tell me about your ridiculous tantrums with your DCs

[drspouse]

Yesterday DS (who is 9 and has SEN but who was wound up and pushing every boundary from here to Russia) was supposed to be getting ready for bed while DD was in the bath. Instead, he ran into the kitchen and took the last huge bottle of diluting blackcurrant and trapped DD in the bathroom by pushing the door, and drank the bottle neat (there was originally about 1/3 left).
When I got to him I had a total paddy and grabbed it off him and told him we were NOT having any more and tipped the rest on the carpet 🤦.
DH quite rightly told me off and got me to clean the carpet.
I'm not getting any more for the next week anyway.
But I suppose I've never threatened to cancel a birthday party and had to follow through.
Do make me feel better by telling me of your childish reactions.

None. Apart from having a panic attack when they encouraged me to climb somewhere really high and I shouted in terror at them until I got down again.

Pouring something on your own carpet is weird.

I’m guessing OP you were at broken point. Your DH should have been more supportive to help you before it reached that point.

Yes it wasn’t the best thing to do but sounds like you were a woman on the edge! Just accept you messed up and move on.

Pouring something on your own carpet is weird
I know, and I have no idea why I did it, except that I think I didn't want anyone else to have it!
It is definitely the kind of thing toddlers (or my DS) would do.

So let me understand this… you poured remaining black currant cordial onto your carpet in front of your child’s eyes and you are asking if other grown adults have done anything similar while having a “tantrum”?

Holy cow, think it op don’t do it or say it!!!

That all sounds horrendous. So now you've cancelled the party? You must have really hit breaking point to pour cordial onto the carpet.

There is no party... I've used that as an example of something people say and then realise they don't want to follow through on. I have never done that. I thought I was rational enough not to do anything else childish in the heat of the moment but clearly I was wrong.

I haven’t done anything like this, but I could 100% see me doing similar in future 🙈

During Easter hols my DD had been winding me up all day, eye-rolling, whingeing, generally being a brat of the highest order. I insisted that she do SOMETHING constructive not just watch TV so she huffed off to practise piano. She complained when I didnt follow her to listen. So I came in to listen. Then she whined that i was staring at her and putting her off. So i moved. The complaints continued when she tried her new sight-reading practise book, which I said commented be very challenging. She said "i KNOW that." At this point my patience is wearing thin. And so when she fluffs one tune after another, each time sighs and comes up with a reason why my simple existence is the direct cause of her making mistakes in her practise, I eventually snap, yell at her that she is driving me insane and grab the book of music off the piano and attempt to tear it in half. But largely fail, as it's too fat to tear and the staples get in the way .

Very stupid as I simply had to buy another copy of the music book.

Sometimes we are driven to do crazy things.

Oh how annoying, you didn't get the satisfaction of tearing it AND you had to buy a new copy!