Irrational toddler tantrums

[gollygoodnessgraciousme]

Aibu to ask for your stories of completely irrational toddler/young child tantrums?

Pretty sure I could write a book but this morning dd2 was playing her plastic flute thing and threw a massive strop because "the flute is annoying meeeeeeeeee. I don't like it when it makes a noise!!!! Waaaahhhhhhhh".

DS had a meltdown in the car when we drove past the hairdressers and the hairdressers was shut.

We were just driving past - no plans for a hair cut or anything 🤷‍♀️

All toddler tantrums are irrational.

My DD 3 was in an inconsolable state of despair that she couldn't bend over whilst sitting down to smell her own feet. There was nothing I could say or do & it was 630am, so I didn't.

Haha Rogue that's cute and funny!

Yes, very true end.

DS2 got very upset because he didn't like tears on his face.
Didn't know why he was crying.
Became enraged when I wiped the tears away because he did want them there after all.
That was an interesting morning.

My dd had one because she was trying 4o wear my shoes and it fell off.. She's only 17m.. Got in a huge meltdown.

My nearly two year old will suddenly decide the toy he’s playing with is awful and get so angry with it. Instead of going and playing with something else he’ll just keep throwing said toy whilst sobbing at it. Toddlers are nutters 🤷‍♀️

DC1 threw a tantrum because they wanted me to sit in the back seat of the car with them...I was driving.

When DD was about 2.5 we were at a toddler group. I was helping prepare food and chopped up all the bananas to share around. DD then decided she wanted a 'mended' banana and had such a strop I ended up threatening her that we would leave if she didn't stop.
We did end up leaving early and she got no banana at all! This brought on more stropping in the car until she eventually fell asleep a minute before we got home.

yeah. the good thing about massive tantrums is it sends them to sleep.

My toddler finds something irrational every day to tantrum about.

Bananas and food in general cause a great deal of them.

Took mine to a public toilet cos he needed to poo. He finished but refused to get off the toilet because he wanted to do 10 poos (I’ve no idea how many he thought he had done but apparently it was under 10). Cue massive screaming tantrum about mummy not letting him poo...

Where do I start! DD2 is very spirited.

Because there was a hole in her baby sister’s onesie (this happened twice). I’ve since got rid of the onesie.
There is a tear in her book (that she’s caused): fix it! Fix it!
There is a spill on the floor (that she’s caused): wipe it! Wipe it!
She wants to wear the same dirty clothes over and over and will fish them out of the dirty laundry basket.

Food is the biggest issue for her but it isn’t that irrational because I can understand that she really likes specific things

Today's food related incident is, he has just finished eating his vitamin 'sweet' and he is upset that it's gone in his tummy as he wanted to save it for later. He is very cross he swallowed it

Hahaha I can so relate to most of these! They are funny little people aren't they!?

Because some of the breadcrumbs fell off the chicken, crust came off the bread etc. Mainly "broken" food causing strops and tears. Trivial to me but apparently the end of the world.

I just bought an hour silence from my 5 year old by buying him one of those expensive Peppa pig magazines with the crappy plastic toys! Told him he can get whatever he wanted in aldi as long as he was quiet for an hour 🙄
The six week old baby had a really bad night last night and I really needed the quiet time so it was worth it!

My toddler got upset that the wise old elf (Ben and Holly) had "underpants" and she didn't she only had big girls pants and she wanted underpants. She did not believe me when I said they were the same thing.

I wouldn't breastfeed the lamp

DS got a huge hollow chocolate bunny at Easter that he made friends with and carried around. It was his love of chocolate vs his love for bunny. Every time he took a bite out of it would burst into hysterical tears crying 'bunnyyyyyy!'. But kept doing it! 😂

Also a few weeks ago he got his first splinter. Cried when I was taking it out then cried after because he wanted it back in

DS is nearly three and loves dinosaurs (bloody Andy and his magic clock). DH made him turkey dinosaurs for dinner one night and he howled because he didn’t want to eat the dinosaur. I cut the tail off to try and persuade him to try it and he went absolutely mental, trying to stick the tail back on, tears and snot everywhere. Same carry on with some chicken things shaped like teddy bears another night. We cut the bloody things up in the kitchen now.

Yesterday the 3 year old asked to make grandpa a lemon birthday cake and then had a meltdown when she put lemon in it. The night before the 1 year old was having a tantrum because he threw his toy pushchair over the baby gate and out the open French doors and the 3 year old joined in because her brother looked angry!

My oldest used to have a love/hate relationship with the spin cycle on the washing machine. He'd stand there, utterly transfixed by it, then suddenly decide it was all too much and burst into tears, but not move away so he'd keep looking at it and crying, then looking at us as though we had anything to do with it!

My 3 year old had a huge tantrum over Katie Morag kicking her teddy bear into the sea (his is a TV show if anyone doesn’t know). She had a huge meltdown and asked me to play it again for her, which is also a bit strange! She cried on the second viewing too, then promptly fell asleep.