For cutting toast into the wrong shape

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I cut DD (aged 3)'s toast into triangles instead of squares by accident. She's refusing to eat it because it's "not the same". I know I'm probably BU but I was on autopilot and thought she'd find the change a welcome novelty.

No, it's the right shape for today!

Yanbu - my 4 year old likes to dictate what shape his toast is cut into and how it is buttered too. He is surprisingly easy going about everything else, perhaps toast is the one way that preschoolers feel they can assert their authority!!!

You cut triangles? You monster!

In my house, DS1 has triangles and DS2 has squares.

That poor child. Report yourself to social services straight away.

DS was leaving home on Boxing Day last year because I wouldn't let him have shandy with his breakfast. He only stayed because his iPod wasn't charged.

You fool. You must NEVER cut a 3 year old's toast without asking them what shape first. Rookie error

Just wait till squares and triangles increases to strips/lots of tiny squares/one big bit like Daddy/big triangles/do you want to cut it?....

Take my advice and invest in children's crockery/cutlery all of the same type and colour so you don't have to go through the list of those as well!! And forget about offering her a broken biscuit too

Or a bruised banana, my 3 year old would have left home the other day over that

I'm so glad MN is anonymous so nobody can report me to SS!

My son used to throw a tantrum if his toast was 'cooked', it was not allowed to have so much as the slightest hint of brown to it it had to be white.

It was more like stale, warm bread really.

many years ago before I became a Mummy my Goddaughter who was 5 came to stay with me. I cut her toast into triangles , she had a complete hissy fit / tantrum because I had given her toast pointy bits ! I was at this and asked her if she wanted it to which she said no so I threw it away - cue shocked goddaughter who said Mummy always makes me more, I replied I'm not Mummy. She made no complaints the following days although I did learn to ask whether she wanted squares, etc

Triangles are better, though.

But toast should always be in triangles?! It tastes so much better!
Your DD is BVU!

My kids dont eat crusts. So has to be triangles here

It's a universal fact that triangles taste better than squares!

My just turned 4 year old had a melt down the other day because I dared to peel her banana completely. Children are so unreasonable!

Triangles are dangerous. You could have someone's eye out.

My sister & BIL offered to babysit my then 2 & 4 year olds & found the most traumatic thing having to switch plates about 4 times. I hadn't realised how I put certain things on a certain type of plate, or that they each got allocated the monkey or giraffe one every time. The monkey & giraffe are long gone but they still find it surprising if they get a ff sandwich on a plate that I'd only normally put biscuits on. The now 15 & 17 yrs olds that is, not my sister & BIL. Or the monkey or the giraffe.

God yes to "the wrong plate". My life isn't worth living if I give DD2 the wrong plate. All hell breaks loose if I give her Winnie The Pooh instead of Peppa Pig!

Is anybody else's 3 or 4 year old really fussy about clothes? DD2 wants to get changed constantly and she's really fussy about her hair. She starts the day wanting a French plait, which I do for her, then she changes her mind mid morning and demands a pony tail. Then after lunch she'll decide she wants it plaited again.

It's like living with Mariah Carey.

I had several years of cutting 1 rectangle into squares and triangles I had to have the child who had yo have it all, didn't I? (And no if there were 2 pieces if toast I could not do I squares and 1 triangles, they both had to be massacred squares and triangles)

Watch out for when what they say isn't actually what they mean

OP, if you haven't already read it, look in Classics for the 'Cutted up pear' AIBU - it made me cry with laughter when I first read it, and I somehow feel that it may resonate with you today...

I'd advice your DD to call 101 instantly. You're clearly neglecting her emotional needs.

By the way, if you've broken her banana too, I'm going to suggest giving 101 a miss and just calling 999 instantly!

my 4 year old insists on both triangles and squares, but luckily it is the same every day, cut toast in to quarters, then one quarter in half so he has 3 squares and 2 triangles. Woe betide anyone else who makes his breakfast, as he doesn't specify it, but expects it anyway!

DD (4.7) likes hers in 4 squares, unless she's particularly hungry, in which case she likes 6 rectangles (because more pieces will make her fuller - the fact that it's all just from one slice either way is irrelevant).

DS (3.1) likes his whatever shape he can get it. But you never put peanut butter on his, because if you do, he'll eat the peanut butter off and leave the toast. If it's normal butter, he'll eat it all. And if he's left a bit abandoned on his plate for half an hour and clearly isn't eating it, for god's sake WAIT TILL HE'S NOT LOOKING before removing his plate or things will get nasty.

froggyjump
I never thought of that. I cut the toast in half, top half into 2 squares (or what ever squashed shape the lumpy top makes), then cut the bottom half in half diagonally for two isosceles triangles.

I Feel your pain, I have one who has two squares and the other half in strips.

The other DD has a 'house' - corners off the top to make the roof and make a lawn out of and a door cut out to make a chimney, then a window cut out to make a gate.

NEVER start the house! I am doomed along with any parents of play date children to our house.

If only this stage foretold lucrative mathematical careers in Euclidean geometry, but sadly it does not!
My (now) 21 year old son was the most obsessive child re toast shapes & it looks like he is destined to be a (probably skint) musician. His maths skill are pretty good, though.