I recently read "cutted up pear" and realised that there hasn't been a funny thread about unreasonable toddler tantrums for a while.
My ds aged 3 once had an hour long tantrum because the sausage kept falling out of his sandwich but that's pretty mild compared to some of the ones I've read about so please share.
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Foxglovesandsweetpeas · 01/10/2017 17:50
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SleightOfMind ·
03/10/2017 23:10
DT2 used to be incandescent if a stick he found on a walk got broken. He'd demand we fixed it there and then.
He also went through a collecting things phase; sticks, conkers, pebbles etc. He'd rage whenever his receptacle got too full to get more. Then there was the era of trying to get all the earth in the park.
Meanwhile, Teen DS threw an epic strop that the DTs had eaten a Jaffa cake each from his packet - which he'd stolen from his sister.
Happy days 
Toblernone ·
04/10/2017 05:09
DD threw a epic strop one day aged about 2/3 because I wouldn't give her my hair - she didn't want a loose strand (when I tried to give one to her she wailed louder as she tried to throw it at me and surprisingly one strand of hair didn't throw very well!), she wanted me to take my entire hair off like a wig and somehow add it to hers.
DN was sobbing his heart out once because he'd decided Curious George lived at our house and he couldn't find him, asked me & DH very politely a few times where George was (and we established he definitely meant the cartoon animal, not even a soft toy version, which we didn't have one of anyway), looked all round the house then came back lip trembling and melted onto the carpet.
Proudmummytodc2 ·
04/10/2017 06:56
When younger my
My DD had a full scale anger meltdown because her brother looked at her 
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Because her pants were not the right colour.
The carrots in his food were small carrots not big carrots.
His sister was getting to stay up late without him knowing it was unfair .. she was having a bottle she was a baby.
Both at the one time - asked for a treat I said yes got them said treat they asked for and apparently I was a bad mummy because they didn't like that treat they bit had a full scale tantrum and when stopped looked at me and said "more"
I really do wonder how their little brains work lol.
boredofmyoldname ·
04/10/2017 07:22
DD was a head-butter when she was younger if things didn't go her way.
During one particularly fun episode she was throwing a tantrum because I wouldn't let her play on the road beside the bus stop then when the bus came she said she wanted to "head bump" it, I told her no she couldn't head butt the bus which she wailed wasn't fair and proceeded to get down on all fours and slam her head into the pavement instead then cried that it was sore 
She also head butted the TV and smashed the inside tubing which meant no TV (or Twirlywoos) which led to a further meltdown.
Roomba ·
04/10/2017 09:24
DS1 was a very calm, happy toddler who was very easy going (unusually so). Apart from the time he had a 45 minute long screaming, purple faced, head banging tantrum because I wouldn't have a glass of wine with my breakfast
Apparently, 'I has milk, Daddies has coffee and Mummy's have WINE!'
Before you start imagining I am an alcoholic, I didn't even drink alcohol then due to medication I was on, so no clue where he got this 'fact' from!
After 45 mins of screaming and bafflement, I was all set to go to the shop and buy a bloody bottle frankly, it was so bizarre! Then he calmed down and wine was never mentioned again.
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