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?

We'd taken him to Blackpool for the day, he wanted a poo but would only do it 'on his own toilet', I said you're going to have to use this one, because I don't have a magic carpet. Forgot about poo and wanted to travel home on the magic carpet.

When DS was little we took him to an event that had stormtroopers, darth vader and darth maul.

When we tried to leave he sobbed and threw himself on the floor. Turned out that he thought he'd leave on the Deathstar and have his dinner with vader.

DC asked for cake for breakfast, to which I said no. They then asked DH, who said yes. Rather than taking advantage of this lapse in parental unity, DC lay down and sobbed "But Mummy say No!", and refused to eat any cake.

Granddaughter threw herself on the floor of the supermarket and screamed because they had run out of.......sea bass!

She was wearing the "wrong colour black". Apparently the "right colour black" was, in fact, green. It's been over 20 years since that particular tantrum but green is still, sometimes referred to as the right black in this house. 😁

ETA...she had picked out the black item of clothing herself, which was right next to the green one.

My oldest daughter’s biggest tantrum was because she didn’t want to go out.

We weren’t going out, I’d told her that several times already, but no, a 2 hour tantrum ensued. I thought I was going to lose my mind that day.

My 3 y o once had a total meltdown because his sister had eaten the last chip at supper...which would have been understandable except that we were on the morning school run with his siblings 2 months after the event! He had wanted me to rustle up chips for breakfast so HE could eat the last one, and I was unreasonable to have refused ...!!

I wouldn't let DD2 play with my fingernail clippings. I had to stand guard over the kitchen bin for half an hour while she screamed and tried to pull me out of the way.

My DS was about 3 years old and all he wanted me to do was to make him a paper aeroplane… out of a wet wipe.

This morning she wanted to wear black leggings, no, pink, no, black and proceeded to put one leg inside the black pair of leggings whilst I folded the pink again. Cue meltdown because she wanted to wear the black pair on one leg and the pink one one the other and I wouldn't let her.

Also, she wanted some of my yoghurt. But it had to be from the middle. So I gave her a bit of the middle. It was the wrong part of the middle, so I ate it. She took great offense to that and insisted that I take the yoghurt I had just eaten out of my mouth, put it back on the spoon, adding more of the correct middle and give it to her. Just to add that the middle is sometimes the edge, so I can never win.

My son once had a meltdown because his sister coughed when he had a cough, and it was HIS cough, not hers!

We had a massive meltdown in Yo Sushi because she gave me a piece of her chicken, so I ate it. She completely lost it- wanted it back to the point she was trying to get her hand in my mouth to get it.

One of mine threw a tantrum because my sister in law and I wouldn't play 'the willy willy song'

Took us ages to work out he meant 'the ketchup song' by Las ketchup

She wanted to do a wee but she couldn't as she'd been a few minutes before.

Every time I reversed the car my middle DC would start screaming. I ended up trying to plan routes and parking with no reversing.

New shoes also caused issues.

My 17 month old was outraged yesterday at my attempt to load his spoon with spag bol. He usually eats by himself but doesn't like the touch of the spaghetti. He gave me the spoon to help but when I did, he threw back his head and had a very angry episode until he realised he was still hungry and took the spoon

I once threw away a bogey my toddler DS handed me. Apparently I was meant to keep it

DS2 was hysterical when I asked him to put his shoes on. Screaming etc because he wanted me to do it for him, which I did. This made him scream louder and cry harder. When I asked him why he was still crying he told me it's because I didn't let him put his own shoes on!!!

this had me in hysterics 😂😂

Did you ever find out what the mysterious fruit was? I’m very curious now?!

Wrong colour butterfly.

Daily, because she wants to be a cat / called a cat / dressed like a cat / carrying a cat / taking the neighbour’s cat with us wherever we go.

Ugh. Toddler twins. My twins would fight constantly through long car journeys. A favourite was ‘She is looking out of MY window’. 😭

I put a spoonful of sugar on the patio and told them to watch the ants find it and carry away the grains. Ten minutes later ‘He’s watching MY ANT’ 😭

They’re adults now and lovely. ☺️

My daughter (2) is like this with my parents dog! 😂 she is convinced she is a dog. She doesn't go to see her grandparents she goes to see 'woo woo', I'm sure she is convinced it's the dogs house and my parents are just allowed to live there

My favourite hysterical meltdown was my niece’s when German telly cancelled her ‘Prinzessin Lilifee’ programme due to another programme overrunning (quite usual there). She stood at the bottom of the stairs and howled for about 15 minutes.

What topped it was when her dad changed the channel to watch the equivalent of ‘Final score/Sports report’ and she ran in and stood in front of the telly and screamed ‘If I can’t watch what I want to watch, you can’t watch what you want to watch!’. The fact we found this hysterically funny made it 10 times worse.