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.

Bewitched - I doubt that. There is a reason why so many mothers in the 50's took valium.

my DS had exactly the same tantrum today OP. But he is only 2.7, so clearly very advanced at tantrums :o

We also had the 'no cutted up apple!' tantrum last week, when I cruelly cut a mouldy bit off his apple. He lay down on the floor writhing around and screaming, occasionally standing up and touching the cutted up apple, before disintegrating again.

And this afternoon we got the meltdown because I wouldn't let him hold the car keys. Whilst I was driving. Then another one because daddy was working from home, and should apparently have been in London.

Bewitchd according to my mother, none of her kids ever had a tantrum - we vary in age from 22 up to 30. According to my father, my mother has some significant memory loss from about 28-19 years ago :o

CleanHankie, what is this (sounds it out) l-ef-t-o-ver-bai-l-ey-s of which you speak? I've heard of Bailey's, which has to be finished within 3 days once opened or it goes off (my dad told me this so it must be true), is it similar?

YABU - DD had a tanrtum because my mum said she (mum) flushed the loo (she had) DD was having none of it, she swore blind she had done it and had the screaming ab-dabs

oh i am so relieved i'm not alone! my DD (2.7) threw a massive wobbler today because she remembered that i wouldn't have a "5 minute chat" (her words) with her last night at 3am when she woke up. she has also thrown another two wobblers today about equally ridiculous things.

i thought they started growing out of it by aged 3? i was clearly wrong judging by this thread! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, WHEN WILL IT END??!

This thread is such good contraception

Today 3yo DD had a tantrum because she wanted to eat her egg.

The egg she just finished eating.

DD 2.5 this afternoon announced she wanted milk and a cuddle. I said OK. She then melted down and lay on the floor screaming crying and flailing for 15 minutes. My being agreeable and amenable to her needs and desires was all a bit too much

TeWi that reminds me of Tuesdays funfest when my son had a tantrum because he didn't want an egg for lunch...he wanted an egg. Not an egg mind you, an egg!!!!

Nope - most pointless tantrum was my son. Broken banana.

Say no more.

My son has just had a tantrum shouting 'no mum, panda! Yes I will'

He wanted to run into the door head on and climb up on the table to jump off. All because he saw Kung Fu Panda and thought it looked fun. He is 2 and a half

We have had more poo-flushing dramas than I care to remember, and once a meltdown of Biblical proportions because I threw a pooey nappy in the bin and then the bin lorry came and took it before he'd said goodbye. The winner here, though, has to be the chocolate he didn't like, spat into the loo and then wouldn't flush away because he'd miss it so, so much for ever, mummy. In between bouts of screaming, he offered suggestions that we build a new toilet downstairs to use so we never had to flush the upstairs one, ask Val next door if we could use her toilet from now on or move to a new house but keep this house as well. By the time he'd finished the chocolate had dissolved.

Hmm. I do wonder about the food related fussiness whether it's to do with the mindset of the parents. In the early 50s there was still rationing so literally what you were given was all there was. I can imagine that that would affect one's attitude when putting food in front of children, and maybe that mindset would be picked up by the children?

bewitched are you trying to stir? It is supposed to be a light hearted thread!

Dh turned up in my car to pick dd up from nursery- she had a total meltdown! She is 4 next week

Just had another meltdown. He has to have eye drops as he's got conjunctivitis but apparently I did the wrong eye first and now he's crying and.screaming. I offered to do it again but I was told no. So he's in bed with his hands on his eyes

ellan no I'm not trying to stir at all, I promise. I'm reading these stories and, although you are all presenting them in a humorous light, I can remember the agony of living through some of those episodes. I just wanted to curl up and hide, or run away. I thought it might be interesting to analyse why it happens.

Sorry, I really don't mean to piss anyone off.
I'll revert to lurkdom. x

illigitamate
Non of my DSs would eat broken bananas. Just as well I like them too.

JingleMum someone told you they grow out of tantrums at 3!?! Noooooo, they just get better at them. My younger DD didn't have them very often, but they were spectacular. Until she was about 8. Sorry.

DS had one yesterday because he had spilled some milk from his beaker on the floor, and the mess offended him. I had to clean up the mess and give him a different beaker before he would even consider calming down.

My two (3 and 4) lost the plot today because one or other of them had pretend cut up the imaginary cake when it wasn't their turn. There was no consoling them or suggesting that there could be as many imaginary cakes as necessary.

Bedtime was brought forward an hour and they were both fast asleep within five minutes.

it was a deliberate spill btw.

The biggest tantrum my dd ever had when she was about 3 was because I very unreasonably refused to walk the wrong way back to the car

She screamed for hours

She had a tantrum tonight (now aged 6yo) because I dared to reprimand her for letting herself out the front door and running across the road!!!

Primrose god help me then!

spiderlight-that is the best reason for a tantrum I've ever heard. To not be willing to build a new toilet so your son can keep his chocolate, the poor boy will be scarred for life.