To think that my daughter aged 3 had the most pointless tantrum in the world

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DD is angry because I flushed away her poo. She wanted Daddy to flush the poo away. I am not having her poo stinking out our bathroom for the next two hours. She has been potty trained since christmas and should be growing out of this poo fasination.

Does she get the mumsnet vote for the daftest tantrum of the day.

You are very unreasonable !!!

YAclearlyBU - what sort of terrible parent flushes poo away!!

no she does not, that sadly does to my NON PRESCHOOLER

we were walking down the road and he said, the swimming pool is shut. I said no it isnt, its still open. no he said its shut. isaid no its open but it dousnt matter as we are going to x.

he sat down in the street and starting bawling and screaming (proper melt down)

He didnt even want to go there.

i give up, there are somethings i just cant make right.

oh yes. She does.

My son once screamed for an hour because I had not separated his cheese string into the required number of 'hairs'

My DD had a meltdown a few weeks ago when it was time to get in the car and go home.

Fair enough, you may think, but the tantrum was because I wouldn't let her drive!

DS has had a tantrum because I waited for him on the wrong stair

DD had a meltdown this morning because I had a banana and she wanted it, I gave it to her and then she continued the meltdown because she didnt want it. I took it away she screamed because she wanted it, i gave it back and she screamed that she didnt want it. Repeat until I bang head on dining table. It went on for an hour.

DD tantrumed once because she fell off the table and I gave her a cuddle and a kiss and asked her if she was ok.

Mine used to have a meltdown every time a bread stick broke (back when bread sticks were fashionable)

My DM tells me my DB had a poo fascination. They used to have to examine and discuss every turd. Famously, he once produced "Mrs Swan and her little babies" in poo form

YANBU.

I don't know what my neighbours think but so far today we have had a tantrum because;

I give DS a biscuit

I couldn't make a cup of tea in the garden

His dinner was exactly what he asked for

He was put on the wrong step for a time out - He didn't even care about the time out, it was literally because it wasn't the step that Daddy put him on last week when he went on there last time!

There was too much chocolate on his pudding

It has been a very, very, very long day

My 3 year old couldn't find her stuffed toy today. I told her where it was (in a corner in her bedroom) and she refused to go and look, then had a full-blown tantrum because she didn't want it to be there, she wanted to find it somewhere else.

I once took a picture of my ds's poo so he could show granny before to avert a similar tantrum! Needless to say by the time my dm arrived he'd forgotten and I didn't remind him.

And deleted the photo obviously.

DD, 3 in 18 days time, had a tantrum today as daddy cutted her food up, not chopped it up. I have no idea what the difference is!

for everyone :)

3 year old LO had a full on tantrum the other day because I wouldn't look in the mirror when she wanted me to

at photographing poo

Dd told me that she didn't want to live with me anymore last week because I put the wrong cheese in her sandwich. I dread the teenage years, she's just so dramatic!

My DD had small screaming session today as she wanted help to get dressed but didnt want me in the same room!? Don't ya just love toddlers

DD2 (2 yrs) had a meltdown this afternoon as I cut up her rather large piece of banana cake (same as I did for her sister and myself)

DD1 (5yrs) had a meltdown because "Bubble Guppies" had already started when she switched the tv on

I had a meltdown as there was no beer or wine left in the house (eyes the Baileys leftover from Christmas with distaste but desperation)

Ds, 3, melted down. Screaming blue murder, kicking, head on floor etc etc. what was wrong? 'i want to cry mummy but I cant'.

Well, I suppose DS (aged 3) did have a point as we had woken him up, but one feels that twenty minutes was excessive. espcially since we only did it to take him and ourselves for lunch. He wished to be left in the car which would have been fine by me if it was not for those pesky child protection laws

I would love to know what's happening to make these children behave like this.
Mine are now all in their 20s and to varying degrees ALL had tantrums exactly like all your descriptions, they are all civilised human beings now by the way if that helps.
But, I am certain that if you spoke to mothers who were bringing up children in the 50s or earlier these stories would be unheard of.
We aren't all indulgent wimps, most of us have standards about respect and behaviour that we want from our children. What has happened?

My Ds3 would think a poo tantrum not unreasonable at all. We are not allowed to flush his poo away until he has seen and described it.
We often have ice cream poo, the other day it was flake-in-a-ice-cream poo. We have also had frogs,cars, branches and pasta poo

What has happened? Those mothers who were raising their children in the 50s are forgetful and living with rose coloured glasses. Of course their children did this.

My favourite small boy tantrum was when I closed the closet door wrong. He stood, for about an hour, sobbing against the closed door.

all round! My DS has had the most enormous tantrum because I sat on the wrong chair at tea time. It pretty much lasted for 2 hours. He has fallen asleep in 2 seconds flat which tells you a lot about his reasons for throwing such an enormous wobbly!!

We get one of those on a daily basis. The other day it was because I made his cereal too quickly. He had wanted to sit on the stool in the kitchen for a chat first.