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How have you ruined your toddlers day so far?

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AintNobodyHereButUsChickens · 04/02/2022 09:23

I brushed DS's hair and made him put his shoes on the right feet ("But I LIKE my hair being knotty!"..."But I WANT them on the wrong feet!!"). So he's gone off to nursery not very happy with me at all.

Have you ruined your toddlers day yet?

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110APiccadilly · 04/02/2022 11:01

Changed her nappy and got her dressed. Then had the cheek to leave her with Daddy so I could go to the gym.

Sammilouwho · 04/02/2022 11:03

I asked her to put the light on so she wasn't scared of the dark.
Then she proceeded to ask for water for her Playmobil and when her dad said no she uninvited him to her birthday party and told him he couldn't have cake.
This age is great!

BillyAndTheSillies · 04/02/2022 11:04

I put his toast on a yellow plate not a pink plate.
I didn't have "nonuts" available for his breakfast (donuts).
He wasn't allowed to wear his crocs to preschool because it was tipping down with rain.
He wanted a packet of biscuits. Not opened. Just a packet of biscuits to carry around like a mate.
He didn't want me to wake up with him today, he wanted DH. But when DH came downstairs so I could get dressed before school run he didn't want me to leave.
6 year old DS finds it hilarious - which just winds him up even more. And he walks off growling. Which makes DS1 laugh harder and then there's just a really noisy vicious cycle of growling and laughter.

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Roseinbloom20 · 04/02/2022 12:22

I've found my people 🙌🏻 had a fucking week of it with my nearly two year old!
Yesterday I dared to attempt to put socks, shoes and coat on to go and collect DS1 from school "NOOOO SOCKS!!!" He did the full body arched back job - it was like wrestling Hulk Hogan trying to get just his socks on! Luckily DH is working from home so he came down and said just leave him (I've never run out of the door so fast!)
He's been so clingy recently and constantly wants "up, up" and then when I say "no" because I'm cooking I get the full body thrown on the floor, banshee screaming - because I won't hold him whilst standing over boiling water 🙄
He wanted to watch Thomas, I put on the "wrong" Thomas "Noo Gordon!!" I find and episode with Gordon "Noooo GORDON!!" I have no fucking clue what "Gordon" he wants.
I dared to fish hook a little stone out of his mouth, unforgivable!

Danikm151 · 04/02/2022 12:59

I told him he had to leave his toothbrush at home!

Ozanj · 04/02/2022 13:03

By changing his nappy - because he likes the stinky.

PushingAnElephantUpTheStairs · 04/02/2022 13:06

I put the tub of oats back on the shelf instead of him. I also opened his banana. All this horror before 7am.🙈

NoJaffaCakesAreKeptInThisVan · 04/02/2022 13:07

😆😂🤣

NoJaffaCakesAreKeptInThisVan · 04/02/2022 13:09

Made her actually eat breakfast before she could have a minimilk at 7am.

DebbieHarrysCheekbones · 04/02/2022 13:09

I refused to talk to him toucans
At 6am
He was not amused

DebbieHarrysCheekbones · 04/02/2022 13:10

I refused to talk to him ABOUT toucans

Hockeyboysmum · 04/02/2022 13:14

I sent his 12 yr old big brother to school so he couldn't play with him any more

I got him dressed

I made him wear a hat

Butternutsquashrisotto · 04/02/2022 13:16

Preschooler, but definitely with a ruined day!

She came to me with two farm animals from her farm and said "do you like my animals?" and I said "I love them, are they friends?" and she screamed "NO MUMMY they aren't friends STOP SAYING THAT TO ME" (there's no back story of conversations about friends or or friends or specific farm scripted play)

Then she threw the farm and said she didn't want to play anymore and went off so her sister started to play with it and that really did ruin her day!

Butternutsquashrisotto · 04/02/2022 13:16

-or not friends

PeekabooAtTheZoo · 04/02/2022 13:18

I wouldn't let him take his massive car garage to bed with him, and only let him take the fourteen cars he wanted to take into bed for a nap.

Yesterday I ruined his day by buying him a toy car in ASDA. He wanted ALL the cars. Then he started caterwauling in the car on the way out of the car park because I wouldn't walk him home in the pushchair. We live 25 miles away from ASDA.

BarbaraLoganPrice · 04/02/2022 13:20

Wouldn't let her press the alarm button in the lift
Let her try on her brothers shoes (six sizes too big)
Wouldn't let her have an apple at soft play, but only because I didn't have one with me
Picked up the tub of slime she dropped in Poundland when she tripped over
Put the packet of ProPlus back on the shelf that she tried to walk off with
Wouldn't give her the bottle of disinfectant while I was wiping up food from the floor

watchtheglitterdustswirl · 04/02/2022 13:21

I turned the tap on and wiped her face with a flannel.

No SHE wanted to turn the tap on and SHE wanted to wipe her own face!!!

Mines not even a toddler she's nearly three and a half. I only did it because I was rushing everyone out of the door this morning.

Wicked witch of a mother I am.

Oldnews · 04/02/2022 13:22

My 3 year old has just realised that hot wheels cars have a little logo on the underside. On the day that I got him a non hot-wheels car. He's spent the last 3 nights dividing all his toy cars into hot wheels and not hot wheels piles and given me a daily interrogation as to why I've bought him one that is not hot wheels.

Literally out of no where, I don't know how he even knows the hot wheels brand exists!

mumjustmum · 04/02/2022 13:22

I put unopened chips in the freezer

watchtheglitterdustswirl · 04/02/2022 13:23

I am also horrible because bourbons were not available for breakfast today because 'Daddy gave me bourbons yesterday!'

Daddy did not give child bourbons yesterday. Bourbons have never been offered as a breakfast food!

claireb7rg · 04/02/2022 13:24

Asked him to sit down whilst I first got him a snack and then gave him the snack 😫😫

Then asked if he wanted a yoghurt, he said no so I put the yoghurt back in the fridge and he howled for said yoghurt

CustardGoodJamGoodMeatGood · 04/02/2022 13:38

I wouldn't let 2yo DD get everything out of the bin suprisingly. Her dinner wasn't ready quick enough because it was cooling, bad mummy ruined her day by not wanting her to burn her mouth

stuntbubbles · 04/02/2022 13:38

Offered her lunch and she only wanted gravy, nothing else, so I said “OK, you can just have gravy.” Absolute fucking scenes ensued at my bastardry.

Sleepyquest · 04/02/2022 13:45

Oh these are making me laugh because I can relate! Toddlers are something else Grin

I've only upset mine today by trying to play duplo with her and also asking her to pee on the toilet and not the potty. So I'm doing well I think

ReadySteadyTwins · 04/02/2022 13:46

Girl twin. I gave her the juice she asked for. There was no more eclair, after she ate the whole eclair.

Boy twin. Did not want his toast. Threw his toast on the floor. Replaced toast. Threw that as well. Ate two pancakes instead. Was not then allowed to forage in the bin for floor toast.