To think my toddler is ridiculous

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What is with these tantrums?! Why do they loose their mind over placing a pillow down the wrong way? Please tell me I'm not alone! Let's share our silliest toddler tantrums. Ps am I being unreasonable to laugh in his face?

My toddler had a tantrum today because I wouldn’t make him a cup of squash, so he shouted ‘I want SQUASSHHH’ but as he shouted squash he stomped his feet and farted along with the squash shout 😂 it was such perfect timing I was in fits, he had an absolute melt down because I was laughing at him but i just couldn’t stop

Oh and he had a tantrum last night because he didn’t want cheese on his pasta. After he’d eaten it.

My 2 year old sobbed the other day because he wanted to hold a toy car in each hand but also wanted to eat his lunch. He didn’t want me to help feed him. He didn’t want to put down the cars and just got more and more angry and sad at not being able to pick up his food. There’s no reasoning with that sort of lunacy.

2yo DS cried at bedtime because he didn't want a pillow but didn't want to sleep without a pillow. Cried harder when l suggested that he was tired.

Second week of potty training and 2 year old threw a fit because I flushed away her 'yellow wee' that she was very proud of and she wanted to save to show her dad! It was 10am and he wasn't due home till 7pm!

My 2yo DD offered my DH some of her snack, he said no thank you. She proceeded to try and force said snack to him, he persisted with his no thank you's. She had a meltdown. He eventually ate the snack, she had a meltdown Cos he ate the snack. The same snack she was trying to force down his throat. DH knew this is how it was going to play out before it did!

My toddler cried today for ten minutes because he didn’t want to go upstairs.
We weren’t going upstairs.
He literally just cried for ten minutes about absolutely nothing.

3yr old once had an hour long tantrum because I wouldn’t let him sleep in the wardrobe

My toddler lost her shit this morning because I couldn't do her hair w Carly like her dolls (her doll has a neon pink spiral perm).

I assume this is meant to be funny but what a horrible thread. Toddlers are learning to manage their emotions - their triggers may seem ridiculous to adults but they're all consuming at the time. As for laughing at them - imagine you were desperately upset about something and your OH laughed - it's abusive.

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I assume this is meant to be funny but what a horrible thread. Toddlers are learning to manage their emotions - their triggers may seem ridiculous to adults but they're all consuming at the time. As for laughing at them - imagine you were desperately upset about something and your OH laughed - it's abusive.

My toddler had a tantrum because she wanted me to sing twinkle twinkle little star without using the word ‘twinkle’

Good one onlyone 🙄

Anyway, my toddler today had a complete meltdown when I placed a fan in his room for his nap cos it was super warm so i said okay we won’t have it on but he was absolutely inconsolable for about twenty minutes. Also didn’t let him climb upon the table and that was absolutely not on for him. He’s only 23 months, I’ve got so much to come

@onlyoneoftheregimentinstep

Are you insane???
I’m a parent who goes to therapy partly for herself, partly to ensure she’s providing all the emotional support her 3 yo child needs; I actively set aside time for emotional literacy work at home, and have read pretty much every book I can get my hands on about gentle parenting and child development.

And if I didn’t laugh at some of the mad shit that triggers my 3yo, I would be absolutely demented by now.

You’re completely batshit.

Lol it's not abusive. Toddlers are incredibly hard work and if you don't laugh at them, you cry!

Well that escalated quickly...

Oh dear ^^ I think someone's a bit sensitive.

If you can't laugh about it I think any normal person would probably absolutely insane!

Anyway my personal favourites from my little one who turns 3 on Monday are

Tantrum because when he asked for milk in his cereal, so I poured milk in but that wasn't what he wanted.
And because I gave him his half apple the wrong way up, the flat side goes on the plate not the other way.... obviously
And also probably all time favourite, huge meltdown because I wouldn't let him have orange squash mixed in his morning milk!

They are delightful sometimes aren't they!

My 2 yo had a tantrum before bed because I would let him have a dose of the antibiotics I’d just given his sister

And earlier because I wouldn’t let him have another chocolate crepe......whilst he was still chewing the first one.

At a local attraction my toddler wanted to go on the train but didn't want to go on the train, but he did and then didn't. He ended up being carried across the field shouting 'train, no train'.

Toddlers are utterly ridiculous, of course tantrums are their way of dealing with emotion and when my 2 year old has a tantrum for someone inexplicable to us he gets cuddled and comforted but it doesn't make the whole situation any less ridiculous.

Abusive? Please. Nobody here has said they were pointing at their toddler and shouting you idiot! Stop being upset over nothing!
Kids at this age throw tantrums over nothing because they are tired, over excited etc.
Seeing the funny side to keep yourself sane does not make you abusive.

onlyone ODFOD

*something not someone

He wanted his cereal on a plate

@onlyoneoftheregimentinstep 😂😂😂 your house must be a barrel of laughs! Toddlers are funny (and hugely frustrating and infuriating and everything else, but also very funny). How depressing must parenting be for you if you can’t have a laugh about a 3 year old kicking off because his crisp is the wrong shape?!