What’s the funniest reason your toddler has had a tantrum?

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I’m on holiday with DP at the moment and so far we’ve witnessed a few toddler tantrums. We have had absolute sympathies for the parents (especially on the plane) but couldn’t help but giggle at some of the reasons behind the utter fury of these mini tyrants.

So far we’ve witnessed utter anguish and tears over the following things:

A little girl on the plane was furious she couldn’t fly herself and had to be on a plane to reach her destination, it took her parents a while to realise that the reason she was crying “I wanted to fly there” when they were reassuring her that that we were about to take off and fly, was because she wanted to fly without the aid of the plane.

A little boy sobbing his ice cream was “too cold and too brown” he wanted chocolate ice cream but for it to be pink like the strawberry.

Another little girl who had a toy in her right hand but wanted it in her other hand. Her dad kept trying to get her to swap and put it in her other hand but she was just getting more angry 😂.

What’s the funniest reason your toddler has completely lost the plot over something unreasonable?

Last year when mine were two and four years old they had the biggest argument about which one of them was three. I ended up stopping to their level and saying "neither of you are three but I am!!" I thought this would make them laugh but oh no . Massive screaming fits after that 😂

We went to a toddler disco, and DD was treated to a fruit shoot, a great treat indeed. She proceeded to lie on the dancefloor screaming 'But I wanted a Gin and Tonic' for quite a long time while sobbing

A few that spring to mind:

The water was too wet
The birds wouldn't stop singing when she shushed them
Daddy didn't come through the front door the right way

😂😂😂 I can't imagine the faces of you and those around you!

When my DSD was 3 she had a tantrum because I painted her nails the colour she asked me to paint them. Her tantrum then escalated because my DH put a baseball cap on himself.

Many years ago dd 18 was hysterical because she didn't want to be a human being!! No alternative preference given..

Not quite a meltdown, but my 4 year old was absolutely beside herself because I've got a few grey hairs. She was crying saying she didn't want me to go grey 🙈

She wanted a raspberry yoghurt so I gave her a raspberry yoghurt but the yoghurt she wanted was actually a raspberry yoghurt so obviously what I did was extremely thoughtless and hurtful.

My are grown now but there were a few corkers.

I would not give her "cock porn" in the supermarket. I had no idea what she was on about (popcorn) and just fled before arrest.

Screamed because we would not strip her down and put her in the large dolphin tank at an aquarium.

We once had a 3 hour standoff during lunch when my then 2 year old told me at the end he wanted triangle not square sandwiches , cut them all in half to make triangle and he ate them happy as Larry haha

DD had ab hour long tantrum because CBeebies had changed its schedule and Octonauts wasn't on. (Before the days of tvs having Iplayer)

She also once climbed the shelves in tesco and staged a sit in. I'm not sure about what, but her father and grandfather still seem slightly traumatised by the memory.

She was generally a well behaved placid little thing, but she did things in style when she did act up! Teenager now... hope that doesn't go the same way

Because we drove past a swing set in someone’s garden. She decided it was hers and that it was unacceptable that we were leaving it behind. That was a very long hour and a half…

My two eldest had a massive barny at ages three and two with snot and screaming and fighting each other. I finally got to the bottom of it. The eldest had eaten the last imaginary cake....

My DD & my DNephew were having a full on screaming fit / stand up row about cheesey pasta - DD loved it, but DN hated it & they were completely inconsolable about it. It was hilarious 😂

She was wearing socks, and she wanted to put on another sock. But she didn't want to take either of her existing socks off, or put the new sock over the top.

Essentially a tantrum over the fact she only had two feet, not three.

Mine was angry at the moon for still being out on his journey to school.

And once because I took my very expensive coveted Chanel lipstick from him after he'd done at least 5 rounds of his lips and nose with it. That was on the journey to school too.

So many.

Wouldn't let him buy a whisk in Ikea. This was a lay-on-the-floor tantrum in the kitchen department.

DS2 was going into the garden to play but put his shoes on the wrong feet. When I told him he screamed blue murder because he didn’t have any other feet to put them on. He wouldn’t let me swap them over either.

He’s a 27yo dad now, and we still laugh about it.

Not a toddler but me!!!

Some wretched newspaper said I looked like a lettuce. An iceberg lettuce at that!

I do wear green sometimes, but not often.
Anyway it really annoyed me and I have to admit that in a fury I threw a bottle of Hellman's Mayonnaise at Hugh. I missed and consequently felt a bit of a crouton.

I had a similar thing. DS had a complete fit because I picked up a different wine to my usually one. Screaming he wanted the 'one with the funny face' (19 Crimes). I was so embarrassed I gave in and got the wine he wanted !

Freshly potty trained

Had a tantrum because she found out she'd have to use the toliet every single day for the rest of her life

I'd ruined her life apparently

I just recalled that my cousin and I had tantrums because her name started with R and mine started with S and she said that because her name was before mine in the alphabet it meant she was better than me.

I think we were about 9 though, not toddlers.

It was about the same period of time that we also had a hair pulling, teeth biting fight over who would be Agnetha and who would be Frida.

I allegedly had a massive tantrum at someone's birthday party, aged four or five. Why? Because someone blindfolded me when I was about to pin the tail on the donkey, and I couldn't see! 😭😭

I remember having "life realisations" like that. One I had was that the fun of every single school trip would be ruined by having to write about it.

Today?

Her older brother was playing with a little toy car. DC2 wanted it.

There were around 20 toy cars, of which DC2 already had 19 in her pile. She took grave exception to her brother wanting to retain one lonely car to play with.

She thought the car would be happier if it joined her pack.