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.

My eldest daughter only ever had 1 tantrum when she was little, in Tesco when we wouldn't let her eat a packet of biscuits while she was sitting in the trolley, we just ignored her and eventually she shut up, and that was it! Seriously the only tantrum she has ever had. She is now nearly 9 and making up for it big time by being a sulky little madam most of the time!
My little baby who is 1 is definitely going to be a right little madam, she has tantrums already when she can't get her own way. She screamed the other day because I wouldn't give her a knife to play with!

I was minding my BF DD who decided to have the mamoth of all meltdowns in the supermarket.

I said to her 'what on earth are you doing?' pretending i didnt have a clue what was going on

she said 'i'm having a tantrum' this while spreadeagled on the floor kicking and screaming.

So i said ' oh ok, when you have finished i'll be over there'

she soon stopped

I've had a break through

Bedtime again and we have gone from perfect bedtime routines to yells of "I'm never going to bed ever again"

Tonight she was too hot, too cold, sleeping the wrong end of the bed etc etc and I got fed up and told her that was it, I wasn't dealing with naughty night times ever again.

I finished with "I will not speak to you again until you do good girl nigh nights"

I left the room and she went to sleep

WTAF happened there?

Do you think I actually one a battle for once?

I think my DS wins the award for today - he had a massive tantrum as DH put on his brown trainers to go out and play football with him.

He was inconsolable and kept sobbing 'I don't like it when daddy wears his brown trainers!'.

RIDICULOUS!!!!

I( thought at the age of three the reason for tantrums was being three

DS1 once had an awesome one because DH wouldn't go swimming.

There was fucking ice on the pool and DS didn't want to go swimming with him or anything, he just wanted to watch DH swim.

I love their passion, they are just so sure we are being unreasonable, its hysterical.

We once watched a little girl have a fantastic tantrum at the tills in Tesco's before I even was pregnant with ds. She lay on the floor screaming:"Illbegood, Illbegood, Illbegood" for about 10 minutes, begging for sweets. Her parents did not give in, and we were able to congratulate them about 3 years later, when we were talking to new friends about our new son and their second daughter, and figured out that had been their first daughter. They could not believe we remembered, but I will probably never forget - it was fascinating!

Mine had a tantrum because her name only has six letters in it.
I don't think it helped that I couldn't stop laughing while she screamed "More letters! more letters!"

I can't stop laughing at spider's replumbing toddler either because it is the sort of logic my dh shows glimmers of! < eyes Ds warily>

spamm - I think it's nice you did that because so often good parenting doesn't get acknowledged. I was once with my DD in my local Costco, and there was a boy of about five flying into an absolute hysterical rage because his mum wouldn't let him have a particular sweet. She kept saying very calmly that they had some at home, and he couldn't have one. I think anyone else would have either given in to shut him up or screamed back at him, because it was v stressful - there were loads of people around watching. At one point she picked him up and set him on the counter to stop him picking up the sweets - he immediately threw himself off. She kept calm the whole time. I really wanted to go up and congratulate her.

Daftest tamtrum award has to go to MIL. She tod me that my DD3 had been on antibiotics for too long, as he had had them for over a week. I pointed out that he hadn't as I picked them up on Tuesday and it was now Sunday. She was adamant that he had had them on teh previous Sunday. I pointed out that she had babysat on Thursday and had maybe got muddled up She stormed out of the house and I heard nothing from her for 3 weeks!