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In my toddlers standards I was unacceptable today.

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BrokeTheToddlersHeart · 12/08/2023 18:30

Tonight, I was getting my DD1 to sleep and I was absolutely unacceptable in her standards.

I didn't let her poke me in the eye! She had already stolen my glasses off my face so I removed them. She went into absolute melt down. Oh the audacity of wanting to keep my eyes.

Anybody else been utterly unacceptable by their toddlers standards today?

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WhatAboutMyIcecream · 12/08/2023 21:20

Furious, angry, red faced tears from my 15 month old today because I wouldn’t let her drink the bubble mix from her bubble wand.

YesitsBess · 12/08/2023 21:22

My 14 and 23 year old spent a large portion of last night being scathing about the fact that they can't both fit on my lap any more.

Apparently this is unacceptable and I must fix it.

Luckily they consoled themselves by doing some kind of circus skills boot camp which involved dangerous amounts of balancing on each others knees.

QuestionableMouse · 12/08/2023 21:24

I made my nephews ham sandwiches. The five year old cried because it was the wrong kind of ham and he hated it.... It's the same ham we always get 🙈

He was tired and a but under the weather though.

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ChristmasCrumpet · 12/08/2023 21:24

Boy Twin had popcorn chicken. About 12 on his plate. Halfway through, picks one up:

"Mummy...aaaahhhhh...open mouth....you eat it Mummy, for you, yum yum, now eat"

3 seconds later when I've swallowed it.

"Nooooooo!!! Out the mouth!! Give it baaaaack!"

FFS. Rookie error by me to be fair.

Bumblebee112 · 12/08/2023 21:28

These are making me feel better today 😅 I have had a DAY of it with my 2.5 year old 😳

  • he asked for a plum, I gave him the plum, he bit the plum. But really he wanted an orange. Meltdown.
  • I couldn’t “unbite” the plum 🥲 meltdown.
  • the rain stopped. Meltdown.
  • I put his cup off to the wrong side of his dinner plate 😳 meltdown.
Newuser75 · 12/08/2023 21:31

honeyrain · 12/08/2023 19:06

Mine had a tantrum because we took a golf umbrella (that he was using from the backseat to poke my DH in the head with whilst he was driving) off him in the car.

😂. I had the same thing with mine the other day but that was a Harry Potter wand 🙈.

Mollyisacat · 12/08/2023 21:34

I put a t shirt on my 17 month old…. I might as well have tortured him judging from the melt down

kitty1993 · 12/08/2023 21:37

Mine screams at me because I won't let her bite me, pinch me or pick holes in my skin 🙄

Mummy08m · 12/08/2023 21:42

My dd has the ordinary tantrums about wanting to chop all the vegetables or put her shoes on by herself.

But the other day she cried because she isn't going to grow more toes, in the way that kids grow more teeth. (You're not born with teeth, you grow them as you go along, but you're born with all your toes, I'd explained.)

But I WANT more toes!!! Aaaaaaargh

I tried everything, carefully counted out my own toes, Daddy's toes, told her that all her teachers have ten toes (most probably) etc, told her that her existing toes would grow bigger and longer...just not good enough, she wanted more toes

SirLottie · 12/08/2023 21:42

I was a terrible mummy today, I held my 3 year olds hand whilst on the escalators so she didn’t fall down them (despite much wriggling and her trying to pull herself free).

I also insisted that she finished her wee in the toilet and not in the middle of the floor, then I cleaned the wee off the floor so she wasn’t able to splash in the puddle.

LittleOwl153 · 12/08/2023 21:43

Sorry it doesn't get any better... or any less funny!

Ds 9 "you 4 need to stop shouting at me"

(There were 4 of us in the car total - and he was the only one who has shouted or even spoken for a while!)

Cattenberg · 12/08/2023 21:43

A few of DD’s toddler tantrums:

I told her she looked pretty. Unfortunately, this reminded her that she was wearing a dress, and she’d recently decided that she hated dresses.

DD brought me a book and told me to read it. But she wanted me to read a different story than the one printed in it (no idea which one).

I wouldn’t let her toboggan down the stairs on her changing mat.

After her first swimming lesson, (aged three), I insisted on taking her back to the changing rooms. She escaped and ran back towards the swimming pool, naked. I caught her and stopped her and she was incandescent with rage.

She asked for malt loaf, so I gave her a slice. This was utterly unacceptable - she wanted to take bites out of the whole malt loaf.

whoneedsakey · 12/08/2023 21:44

My two year old had a tantrum because he didn't want the library books to come home with us 🤯

MrsMarzetti · 12/08/2023 21:44

Seemingly giving a child a shut (whole) biscuit when they want an open(broken) one is a major crime

Echobelly · 12/08/2023 21:45

When DS was 3 he was most upset that his dad most unreasonably wouldn't let him climb over the side of a boat when we were on the River Douro in Portugal.

blahblahx · 12/08/2023 21:52

I wouldn't let my toddler take a pan out of the cupboard.

Oh the trauma!

Brandyb · 12/08/2023 21:53

Fromage · 12/08/2023 19:27

You and I might be suffering from Post Toddler Stress Denial.

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JustdontknoW2do · 12/08/2023 21:54

Well ds 3 said I brought the wrong eggs apparently I gave him box eggs not chicken eggs he only eats chicken eggs
20 minutes explaining and a YouTube video explaining, apparently the delivery man should take me back because I'm a substitute 😂(his words) que 20 minute tantrum and still wouldn't eat the eggs his has everyday

This was breakfast rest of the day much the same and dd9 don't get me started 😂

caringcarer · 12/08/2023 21:56

honeyrain · 12/08/2023 19:06

Mine had a tantrum because we took a golf umbrella (that he was using from the backseat to poke my DH in the head with whilst he was driving) off him in the car.

😂😂

HTruffle · 12/08/2023 22:07

Mine are a bit older now but I don’t think I’ll ever forget my DS’ meltdown at the age of two, on the side of a fairly busy road having picked up his sister from school, because I, very unreasonably, wouldn’t let him drive home.

TimeIhadaNameChange · 12/08/2023 22:08

The most recent one was trying to wipe of the remains of the facepaint. She had cleaned her face earlier so I didn't need to

I read a line in a book that she wanted to say. Me not knowing she wanted to say it was no excuse.

Despite agreeing that 'little pasta' (orzo) with bacon and peas looked good on the screen she declared dinner to be 'yucky' and wanted pesto pasta. Pasta on, I turned to see her tucking into her orzo, which she then declared 'delicious' and wanted seconds.

Kirova · 12/08/2023 22:11

Not a toddler, but my 4 year old burst into inconsolable tears when I gave her some fruit as a snack. The grapes were the WRONG COLOUR!

Ohhmydays · 12/08/2023 22:11

My 15month had a roll around the grass tantrum because bad mum here wouldn’t let him open the garden gate to get out in the road

Ohhmydays · 12/08/2023 22:14

Kirova · 12/08/2023 22:11

Not a toddler, but my 4 year old burst into inconsolable tears when I gave her some fruit as a snack. The grapes were the WRONG COLOUR!

This was my 4yr old a few days ago because he wanted a purple banana 😂

Kirova · 12/08/2023 22:17

Ohhmydays · 12/08/2023 22:14

This was my 4yr old a few days ago because he wanted a purple banana 😂

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When I asked her which grapes were the "right" colour, she said she wanted the "spotty ones". Still have no idea what these could be!

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