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.

Ds had a two hr tantrum complete with door slamming and foot stamping. All over the wrong kind of lemonade. It was quite funny in the end watching him screaming in nothing but his underwear.

He's 16.

Ds2 has them on an almost daily basis but they are reasonably tame. He's 3.

Dd has them occasionally and she's 8.

Our most memorable one was when I wouldn't let dd aged 2 or 3 drive home. Today I made pink milk but dd wanted to put in the pink and I did it [I'm so mean] there were at least 2 others today - I asked her to tidy up the toys she got out, when she undressed her brother I made her go and get his clothes for me - she's tired and worrying about school starting in Sept (we got all the information through yesterday). Its hard being a preschooler no?

My brother is 30 and still does a good strop. I've forbidden my mother drawing comparisions between him and my children.

I feel it is my duty to provide the link to the cutted up pear

What a fab thread I am giggling reading these and feeling slightly better about today's tantrum which was because dd2 (2.10) wanted her uncle to be her daddy! Erm? And yesterday's because I was wearing the wrong coloured pants apparently, in the house of frasers changing rooms, at the top of her lungs...

My DS had a tantrum yesterday because I wouldn't let him keep or play with the nit I had just pulled out if his hair.

At age 4 or 5, DS had a tantrum, because I wanted to throw away his plymsoles. They were 3 sizes too small! He didn't wear them any more, but insisted on keeping them. It lasted for 2 hours and resulted in me hurling them out of the back door!
In the end, my mum came over, and promised DS that she would take them home and look after them!

BewitchedBotheredandBewildered - don't you believe that tantrums are new. When my father was a child in the 50s, my grandmother used to handcuff him to the radiators when he threw tantrums.

Excellent thread, by the way. Had me in stitches. All so familiar from my own wonderful daughters.

My Mum does the whole 'you were never this bad!' thing whenever my daughter (5) had a tantrum...
Yet she admitted she once kicked me in the face because I was throwing a tantrum and bit her on the back of the leg, and by reflex (or so I am told :P) she kicked back in shock.
I have also had many accounts by Dad and older sister that I would have tantrums if I had to walk on sand, stones, grass.. basically anything that wasn't concrete or carpet.
So yeah... basically my Mum has blocked it from her memory... who can blame her though lol

This thread's brilliant...it's really made me laugh and brought back some memories

deementedma, I love you, my DD1 still banging out the occasional one - age 25!

I'd love to have tried some of the old fashioned "remedies".

Nightnight. x

I was a 50s child and had a huge meltdown on the central island of a very busy road because we had left my imaginary friend on the pavement. Apparently I was incoherent with angst and we had to go back to get her. My mum wasn't the sort of person who ever put up with such stuff, but even she gave in that time.

pombear what a link!! made me laugh so much. toddlers are so bloody unreasonable.

DD2 had a tantrum for over an hour because I wiped her nose and she wanted her snot back.

DD3 said "I'm going to KILL you" because I pressed the button for 30 deg instead of 40 deg on the washing machine.

I have also taken photos of poo.

Oh and fwiw, I did give her the snot back

Loving the cutted up pear :o

DS had a tantrum today because I held his hand wrong and then had the cheek to suggest cheesy pasta for lunch when it is clearly a dinner dish

He also tantrums because I make him put his wellies on the correct feet, or if I suggest any footwear that isn't wellies

If we go into the incorrect car park

His favourite at the minute is to lose his rag about the fact he can't push the trolley in Tescos while he is sitting in it

I feel so at home on this thread.

DD 2.9 had a very long tantrum at easter because first she didn't want to brush her teeth which morphed into "I don't want to go to bed". So eventually DH and I left her in her room wailing.

She was sitting on the floor wailing and whining when she suddenly sobs: "it's so hard to keep whining. I don't think I can do it any more"!

It was hard to listen to as well.

Bewitched.
You answered your own question : your children are fine now.

Tantrums are expressions of emotions in children who are still too young to understand exactly how they feel, and how to direct their feeling in a less dramatic way (or lack the words to talk about how they feel).

Nothing wrong with emotions, and our job is to guide our DCs in socially- apprpriate ways of expressing them. As long as we don't give in to tantrums that are designed to manipulate us.

I'm not sure about the 1950s' - I wonder if emotions were squashed entirely?

My DD was 4 when she had a tantrum because I wouldn't 'Switch off the sun Mummy'!
We were on a bus from hotel to airport in Spain and moving seats wasn't an option we were sitting in the shade with air con on but the sun was,'looking at her!' There was no escape and she screamed herself hoarse over the 40 minute journey.

I bet that journey felt like 40 hours!

Bewitched, well, I can't speak for anyone else, but my children are autistic. Meltdowns (which is the word for the autistic loss of control that results in behaviour that people may interpret as a 'tantrum' but which is VERY different from a tantrum!) are par for the course and would have been back in the 50s too.

Ah, I've been chuckling over these... I was never a really tantrummy child, but remember having spectacular ones (born out of frustration with DF!) as a teen. And remember my sister's childhood offerings . I'm lucky so far, dd is not really given to them too often or for too long, but I think I may leave the country when ds (14 months) turns 2, as he is brewing up nicely already. Aaaarggghhh!

My DD (3) went berserk because it was light when we were setting off on holiday and she wanted it to be dark like the last time. I do try to accommodate a lot of her requests but 'Mummy make it dark MAKE IT DAAARRRRKKKK!!!!' was frankly beyond me.

My DS2 (then about 2.5) used to get distraught when we ate out if the waiter poored a bit of his apple juice into a glass for him - took us a while to work out what the problem was (he obviously wanted it left in the bottle with a straw)

We soon learnt to intercept the waiter before this happened to avoid the tantrum.

These are great Bringing back some shit great memories...

Once my dd (now 14) had a massive tantrum because she was 3, and her cousin said she was 1...

Loving that some people think these tantrums suddenly stop at a certain age. Mine are 14 & 6 now. They do not.