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?

I am a nursery practitioner so I have many! Recently,
I flushed a poo away
She flushed her hair slide down the toilet and I didn't get it back
I put his shoes on the right feet
There were no pink knickers in her bag
I couldn't make the worms he drowned wriggly again
Etc etc etc........

DC did something well at football class, and the coach said they'd done well. DC then lay down at the side of the pitch and refused to participate in any way for the rest of the class.

We were on a day trip to an island, there was a slight issue with wasps and my niece absolutely freaked out, which was already very funny, but then she started angrily sobbing “I’m going home!” and making to storm off - when, like I said, we were on an island. I made it so much worse by absolutely crying laughing cos how you getting home babes? And she wasn’t even a toddler, she was 11. It’s three years ago now and I still randomly think of it and start laughing, it was just so bloody ridiculous.

It's just come up on my fb timehop that my youngest had a tantrum because 'my teeth are frightened of the colour of the bathroom walls'

The same colour the walls had always been since we moved in and never had any issues with

That was a long day-im not a drinker but I've never wanted to drink myself into a coma so badly in my life (She's now 17)

Not a tantrum, but today we had 'purple' that was actually brown. Brown is now "other purple", apparently.

Slightly off topic but your post just reminded me. I was about 9 at school and 2 of the older girls started explaining about periods. I was completely convinced they were just winding us up and that blood coming out once a month was the most stupid thing I'd ever heard.I stormed off because they kept insisting it was true. Then I found out it was.....

When I told my then young son to ' eat your vegetables, they'll put hair on your chest '
Next thing, my then toddler daughter was full on hiccupy sobbing because ' I don't want a chest like daddy's, I want boobies like you mummy '
Oops 😂

Around 14 years ago, when my dgd was about 3,she and her mum (my DD) were drawing and colouring together. My DD suggested that they draw a robot. 20 minutes later my dgd had the most mega meltdown because her mum's drawing was 'better than hers'. It went on for about 45 minutes. Thank goodness we were at home at the time. Between my daughter and I,it has gone down in history as the worst tantrum dgd ever had.

Mine aren't toddlers, but I heard a little boy in the supermarket today. "I want moo milk...no not that one, that one" "That's not moo milk" "want that moo milk" points. Heavy sigh."but this is milk, that's not milk. It's iced coffee" "I drink ice coffee. Daddy gives it me" mum looks daggers at dad."I don't!" "And Daddy gives me beer...don't want milk.want beeeeer"

A friend’s dd (still under 2) in my kitchen, screaming for Pudding! Pudding! Pudding! Getting in such an anguished state! We tried her with everything we could think of - yogurt, ice cream, you name it.

Turned out she meant cornflakes!
Talk about phew!!

My DS just had a huge meltdown this morning because I needed a poo 😑 he was screaming "noooo mammy" and trying to pull me off the toilet haha

His donut had a hole in it

DS1 was incandescent with rage on the walk to nursery once because I wouldn't invent time travel so that he could become older than his cousin. I had suggested that he invent it as it was the only way he was ever going to be older than her. I've never regretted a joke more.

My DS, aged 2, was given a chocolate bunny at Easter. He loved it and wanted to cuddle it. Unfortunately he had also just eaten it 😭