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?

Because the ‘Tweenies’ show came to an end and they left the stage (Manchester 2001).

DD aged about 18 months had a massive tantrum at the end of toddler group one day because she wanted her cardigan on and off at the same time.

At about 4 years old we had a very long, sad bedtime because she didn’t want her hair to be the colour it was, or the same colour as mine or her dad’s when she grew up. She wanted it to be purple or orange. Once I had worked out the problem through her howling I explained hair dye and she finally went to sleep.

So many:

I told her she looked pretty. Unfortunately, this reminded her that she was wearing a dress and that she sometimes hated dresses. She threw herself on the floor, kicking and screaming.

She brought me a book and asked me to read it to her. But she wanted me to read a different story from the one printed in it.

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

She asked for malt loaf, so I gave her a slice of malt loaf. It turned out that she’d wanted to hold the whole malt loaf and take bites out of it.

We wouldn’t let her take a turn at driving the car.

Shrimping.

My elderly uncle & aunt quite often mooch along the beach with a net at twilight, coming back with a few handfuls of shrimp that they cook up for a light supper.

This was carefully explained to 4yo ds.

I thought he might get upset that the shrimps were destined for the pan.

No.

He was furious that he wasn't allowed to eat them alive, picked out of the net.

Demanding the Yoghurt Song in the car, more and more insistent, me baffled. She's welling up and going quite puce. Me wracking brains "Can you sing a bit?"
Long sigh, little cough to clear the throat...
"Welcome to yoghurt, it's been waiting for you welcome to yoghurt!"
It was Taylor Swift's Welome To New York.

Oh there was a song one as well, @TaraTories has just reminded me.

The Octopus song. The one we had on in the car. No not Octopus's Garden, the other one. There's three of them. Three octopuses. Ladies sing it.

A lot of hard work and tears later:

Love in The First Degree, Bananarama.
(Only you can set me free= Octopus, can you get three.)

I opened my sons Twirl wrapper for him 🙄

I accidentally spoke in cookie monsters voice when it should have been Elmo 🫣

I brought his beaker of water indoors to him when he clearly wanted it left outside in the baking sun apparently

There's so many more but these are from TODAY

Haha my first period aged 11, what every month? 😭 It just seemed so unreasonable.

DD2 is almost 3 and rebelling against always being the easier child by ramping up the tantrums.

Today’s was because her 5 year old sister dared to mention that DD2 was going to preschool later. Apparently DD2 wanted it to be a surprise to me. She then realised that I was the one who had put her preschool t shirt on for her, and her anger at spoiling the surprise was multiplied by ten.

This all happened at 7am. DD1 and I sighed a HUGE sigh of relief when we dropped her off at the ILs half an hour later and carried on to school.

DM used to sing a song when I brushed my teeth, it was something like 'you're a little lady, mmm and that's no maybe'. There was another line but I'd always scream 'don't say nuffing else, don't say nuffing else'. Every time.

This has given me a good giggle!

What happens if you disagree? Or are you too afraid to? 😂

At least it wasn’t hard boiled, it could have lasted weeks before being broken.
Can you imagine attempting to get that egg back whilst still intact? You would have had WW3 on your hands 😂

well I can understand the desire, I feel like screaming that myself at toddler discos…

I think these are the winners!

To be fair I’d quite like to get in a dolphin tank.

Because he had eaten all his noodles and wanted more.

Made him more noodles but that was wrong. He wanted the same exact noodles he had just eaten, back in his bowl so he could eat them again

Cause I told him he had to stop licking things at random. Right at the start of the pandemic he had decided he was a dog hence the licking 🤦‍♀️

There's a great photo of my little brother covered in chocolate and ice-cream, screaming because he'd eaten his choc ice then couldn't work out where it had gone. My mum said he kept looking down the side of his chair for it and couldn't work out why he didn't have it any more. He's 34 now.

We passed a grey car. DC wanted it to be red. The car did not obey the instruction to be red. This was terrible.

Because the dress ( her choice which one to buy ) had a bow on it .

Because I looked at her while she was dancing.

Well at least it seems she won’t be a professional dancer just to be “looked at”

I don’t like being looked at when I’m attempting to dance, my neighbour said she’d seen me dancing through my kitchen window and was considering calling 999 in case I was having a fit 😂.

It's like when you eat maltesers and think you have one left. The outrage. 😂

Dd (3) came in from the garden sobbing because her imaginary friend wouldn’t play with her.
I told her to tell said friend that mummy said he must play with dd.
She went back out quite happily.

We had repeated tantrums over DS wanting fruit.
No problem son we would say, here have some blueberries, or an apple or a banana maybe. But no not that fruit THE fruit. Even in the supermarket he couldn't point out what Fruit actually was. This carried on for several months. And lord please forgive me for cutting toast the wrong way. Now the wrong way we change depending on the day. Some days triangles well the optimum method of cutting choice quite often it was squares there was no pattern and no pre asking ever made it okay.

My daughter became very upset when I told her there was only one moon. She was convinced there were lots of different moons because they didn’t all look the same.