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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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to think this is quite possibly the most First-world problem ever in the history of MN?

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Heartbrokenmum73 · 04/12/2013 21:14

We went to the local cake shop on the way home from school earlier. I had coconut cake (yet to eat it so no verdict to deliver, before anyone asks). DS2 had some chocolate crunch. DS1 however, opted for bread and butter pudding because 'he's had it at school and he loves it'. I was a bit but went with it.

He had one bite about an hour ago and declared it to be nothing like the one at school. Could he have something else? So I directed him to the packet of snack Oreo biscuits or the mini packet of Chocolate Animals. Could he have both? No, he had to choose.

Thus ensued a tantrum about how he couldn't choose! Seriously. He got in a temper because he didn't know which one he wanted most.

AIBU to think this is the silliest reason for a tantrum ever? Having a choice of two yummy snacks? Enlighten me with the silliest thing/s your child (or even you!) have ever stropped about.

Disclaimer: I know the tantrum was really because he couldn't have both. He had the Oreo's in the end.

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realblueprint · 04/12/2013 21:42

I'm not wise, I just don't have money to burn on cakes that don't get eaten.

pianodoodle · 04/12/2013 21:44

DD (Nearly 2 and a half) went bonkers at me because I couldn't cram myself into the washing basket to play boats with her.

I'm 8 months pregnant!

"Noooooo! You want to get in the baaaasket!"

Ummm...no I really don't. I'll never get out again

Tilly333 · 04/12/2013 21:45

DD had a tantrum cause she said she wanted to marry her dad (she was 3.5 at the time) I (stupidly) said she couldn't as he was already married to me. Bless!
Cue tears and screams for the next 20 minutes! - all the way to nursery and for the first 5 minutes when we got there.
Of course I got it wrong!!!
I do remind her of this every now and again (she is nearly 14 now) and she obviously denies it ever happened!

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Heartbrokenmum73 · 04/12/2013 21:45

Real - can I interest you in a half-chewed bread and butter pudding

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puntasticusername · 04/12/2013 21:47

Oh yeah, can't fault the dear little lad's keenness, bless him

He also...er...forgive me...blows hot and cold on the subject of hand driers. Some days he loves them, other days they are his mortal enemies. Heavens help you if you get that one wrong.

Actual lol at sock on the wrong foot!

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Heartbrokenmum73 · 04/12/2013 21:47

Tilly - I had something similar from DS1 (him again!) when he was about 5. He wanted to marry me and I said he couldn't because I was his Mummy. Cue tears and upset - on the bus. I said of course he could marry me - when he grows up. He doesn't want to anymore.

Probably the best offer I'm likely to get...

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OutragedFromLeeds · 04/12/2013 21:49

2 year old DC4 had an almighty tantrum tonight because I put his snack in the wrong bowl. He did that 'so upset they can't breathe' thing for about 45 seconds (he was going purple) and then wet himself.

puntasticusername · 04/12/2013 21:51

Oh, the wanting to marry the parent of the opposite sex - that's a Thing, I remember reading it in a Claire Rayner book years ago. Apparently this is how children start to figure out adult relationships and they find it genuinely very upsetting to realise that things just can't work that way.

Er. In fact. Am I just talking about good old-fashioned Oedipal issues? Possibly I am.

beginnings · 04/12/2013 22:03

For those of you who haven't already, you should read this thread. Some great first world problems on this one.

tshirtsuntan · 04/12/2013 22:03

My 4 year old son had a big, teary weeping fit tonight in case any guests come round and eat the chocolates (we haven't got yet) off the Christmas tree (we also haven't got yet)

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Heartbrokenmum73 · 04/12/2013 22:05

Ooooh, thanks beginnings

I'm off to drink coffee and eat my coconut cake now, whilst watching something funny on the tv (yet to decide on the programme).

I hope to come back to more of these 'problems' tomorrow - they are really making me

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Twit · 04/12/2013 22:06

You all laugh now, wait until they are 15 and tantrumming. Yup. Even the toddler was all

silverten · 04/12/2013 22:17

As a purely hypothetical question, if one had a four year old who had literally never had a tantrum over trivia like the dog looking in the wrong direction or the clouds being the wrong shape, what fresh hell could one expect as a replacement problem instead?

volestair · 04/12/2013 22:42

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ScarletLady02 · 04/12/2013 22:52

My DD (nearly 3) has a favourite one.....asking me to take her shoes off and then having a huge meltdown because I dared to take her shoes off....she gets me EVERY TIME!

MrsMook · 04/12/2013 22:59

A regular we have is the broken biscuit/ bruised banana tantrum. Woe betide you give a slightly imperfect biscuit or banana or the face will crumple, a little voice will wail "brogan" and then the offending snack will be pulverised. Then the full tantrum starts at realising that the food has been destroyed.

We had countless months of the random breakfast tantrum which meant it was impossible to leave the house before 11am as the meltdown lasted so long. The cure was found by accident... He wanted self-service from the cereal cupboard. All those months of suffering (straddling late pregnancy and newborn phases so really wasn't up for a fight)

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 04/12/2013 23:06

Not a tantrum, but ds3 once thumped ds2 "because he was looking grumpy"!! Apparently it didn't help - who'd a thunk it?!

puntasticusername · 04/12/2013 23:37

"I'll give him something to look grumpy about...".

thebody · 05/12/2013 00:40

ds1 had a strop because we were sharing a bottle of wine and he had come in from the pub with the ' beery grin' so dh wouldn't share it.

kreecherlivesupstairs · 05/12/2013 05:49

DD had a major tantrum once when I picked her up in front of the mirror on the wall.
She decided, in her own two year old mind, that I loved the other little girl more.
It was her reflection.

momentofmadness0 · 05/12/2013 06:53

DD age 3 woke me up at 5.30 this morning screaming because the new Minnie Mouse pyjamas I bought her yesterday aren't pink. She was fine with them last night when she put them on.

AKAK81 · 05/12/2013 07:20

I suspect that it was in fact bread pudding - very different from bread and butter pudding.

talkingnonsense · 05/12/2013 07:56

Akak81 has it- bread pudding is yucky with a wierd texture and damp, sold in bakers shops as a cake; bread and butter pudding is hot and yummy and sold as pudding in supermarkets (or made at home!)

absentmindeddooooodles · 05/12/2013 08:02

Ds 2.9 had a beauty this morning.

" mummy I want toast for breakfast."
( put toast in the grill)
" nooooooooo mummy noooooooo. Dont COOK the toast"
" but I have to ds or itll just be bread."
" nooooo mummy. You ruined my toast. My sad. You naughty girl mummy"
( give him bread on a plate)
" noooo I want TOAST!!!!! NOT BREAD. TOAST!!!"
Cue tantrum for 45 mins.

I give up.
( so I give him bread)

absentmindeddooooodles · 05/12/2013 08:04

I have no idea where the last ( so I give him bread) came from. Hes currently eating cereal.

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