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 son got angry and tearfull because his crackers kept breaking when he was eating them. They were thin crackers and there was nothing I could do to stop them crumbling. It is funny to think about it now but I felt sorry for him but then. Tantrums were a very rare occurrence for him luckly

Tuckit Twin souls then. Even same age

Remember when me twins were 2 I was trying to get the double buggy through a dreadful double door entrance, I always got them out and let them into the safety of the soft play area, whilst I did the difficult manouevere with the buggy. One had a tantrum as they decided they didn't want to go in and tried to get back in the buggy, which blocked me from getting through, as he tried to climb back in, had no choice but to let him, then tried to manoeuvre back out. Strapped him in (still sobbing) whilst tried to get back through to get his brother, who then also (more logically) had a tantrum about leaving again. Had to get him back to buggy and still tantruming first twin. Strapped him now screaming and kicking in the buggy, had looks of irritation, amusement and sympathy from other parents, having obstructed the entrance?!! They just screamed for I don't know how long, incredibly stressful!!

I have a very sensitive 4yr old DS who is very creative with his crying - my personal fave was when he was screaming his head off in bed and when I ran up and asked what was wrong I got told “The walls are TOO HIGH! Bring them down here this instant!” - his big brother is on the spectrum so his tantrums were especially epic and seemingly illogical. His best is when he turned to his dad, who was trying to get him to finish his brekkie, and said with absolute venom in every word “I will NEVER eat this delicious breakfast!”

This thread has given me the best laugh of the week.
My grandaughter is 2 so I guess it is my turn soon ( again DS is 33 )

I needed this thread this week!
Some of this weekends epic tantrums include-

• because I wouldn’t chop his hand off to give him a hook

• because his chicken was too hot, because I got my breath on it when I blowed it to cool it down (he insisted I blow on it for him) and finally because he didn’t like roast chicken

-because I couldn’t turn a postcard into a sword

-Because I wouldn’t let him do the little pigs jigsaw (we don’t have a little pigs jigsaw)

• because his brother said he wasn’t 6.

Give me strength!!

My toddler wanted her nails painted pink with glitter (its peel off nail varnish) once I had painted them she had a fit screaming I dont want this on my nails...peeled them all off and then continued to scream at me that now her nails aren't painted?! 🤷🏼‍♀️

Lyralalala: 'My 4 year is currently sobbing in her bed because she wants to be 3 again.

DH made it worse by saying she wouldn’t be 4 forever, she’ll be 5 on her next birthday. She doesn’t want to be 5 either.'

That could have been me at that age - or any later one, really! I never liked the 'oh now you're age X!' atmosphere on birthdays (a sort of combination, I think, of 'today you're going to be almost literally transformed into a different person!' and 'from now on, people will be less tolerant of your weaknesses because you're older!') I liked getting presents, but not the age aspects of birthdays, and stopped celebrating my birthdays when I became an adult.

Interesting that I'm not the only one who was anti-age-change.

Toddlers are ridiculous, all of them. It's just how they are, at that age.
They grow out of it, FWIW.

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.

Gave up reading when I saw this. I accept „emotional health“ ( I assume what used to be called saving your sanity) is very important having had severe pnd. Given that what the examples I read show very clearly is that our dc have forgotten the whole issue/episode 10 minutes later, I doubt that they will be scarred by a few minutes laughter at their expense. Certainly not to the same extent as their mums who are living with the emotional equivalent of unstable TNT 24/7 for the toddler years.
When dealing with that, any chance of a laugh is very valuable for the mum‘s wellbeing imho
My lasting memory is of our ds on his second birthday. Definitely overtired after his party, he refused to go to bed without his best present, a toy lawnmower nearly as big as himself. Screaming because he wanted it in bed with him at the same time as screaming because he was uncomfortable......because there was a lawnmower in his bed

My youngest once cried for nearly three hours because there was no ice cream, he stopped crying because he had forgotten why he was crying, his helpful elder sister then reminded him so he started crying again....they laugh about it every time they have ice cream, it was more than a decade ago.

@ddl1 That could have been me at that age - or any later one, really! I never liked the 'oh now you're age X!' atmosphere on birthdays (a sort of combination, I think, of 'today you're going to be almost literally transformed into a different person!' and 'from now on, people will be less tolerant of your weaknesses because you're older!') I liked getting presents, but not the age aspects of birthdays, and stopped celebrating my birthdays when I became an adult.

Interesting that I'm not the only one who was anti-age-change.

It wasn't her birthday. I could understand it if it was as my DS2 hates the fuss of birthdays. DD, however, has been 4 since March without any issue. I still have no idea why it was such a terrible thing!

Mine used to tantrum I'm the shop because i wasn't allowed to place my hands on the trolley yet was still expected to push it.

@sashh My "strop" as you put it was about arseholes who decide to pontificate about a post they clearly haven't read.

The irony in you responding to that post and thinking it was about not RTFT is strong.

Me at 14.45 in afternoon to nephew age 3: Do you want some chocolate?

Nephew : no tank you.

Me : sure ?

Nephew: ess !!!. (Agitated now)

Bedtime, 19.00. Meltdown “ I didn’t have choclit !!!!” Meltdown over at 22.15 when nephew finally falls asleep. 🙈🙈🙈🙈🙄

Predicted it, and there it was, on the first page of comments!
It's abusive to laugh at the funny things toddlers do.
Sheesh!

I don't really remember many (if any) of my DC's toddler tantrums, but the one that does stand out vividly was the one thrown by my DH (age thirty-eight and three quarters) when he dropped the ice cream off his cone one day after leaving the ice cream van at the beach. Full-on stampy feet, windmill arms, and a complete refusal to go and get another one. "I wanted THAT one" "It's not fair" I was like this . As were the DC (aged 15 months and three years). All of us in a line watching Daddy lose his shit. I thought he was joking, but honest to God, he was deadly serious. The DC are now in their twenties and they still remember that day. I don't think anything they did ever topped that one.

I love these!

Mine involves my middle dd (now 16). When she was about 2 and her older sister 4, I bought them some seeds for planting in pots in the garden. Dd2 soon got bored with this activity and wandered off and I carried on with dd1. Dd2 regretted this afterwards and kept saying 'I wanted to do the gardening'. Eventually she calmed down and I thought that was the end of it.

However - middle of the night and dd2 wakes up crying. I went into her - 'I wanted to do the gardening' over and over. The only child who carries on the tantrum hours and hours later

My eldest is now 24 and we still laugh about the tantrum he had about wanting pink milk. I gave him strawberry milk but that wasnt what he wanted. He wanted pink milk that tasted of milk boy strawberries . My 2nd DS had a tantrum because I cut his sandwich into squares and not triangles. My 3rd DS wanted the toy aisle in Tesco to be closer to the door because he didn't want to walk that far.

@onlyoneoftheregimentinstep
If you don't laugh you will crack up. It's not abusive

@DullPortraits Do you even have kids? Believe me, we know why they have tantrums, but you have to laugh at them because that is the only way to get through, especially when they throw themselves down on the floor in the supermarket because they can't have a bottle of gin to drink (yes, one of mine spotted a pretty bottle with "water" in it and wanted me to take it off the shelf and let him drink it, 29 years ago!)

My toddler regularly asks to go to bed and asks me to close the door. I pop her into bed and close the door. Huge tantrum ensues.
This can go on for quite some time!

Any advice on this welcome!

I haven’t read them all...but doesn’t anyone else have a ten year old that has massive tantrums still? Mine does! He doesn’t have any learning difficulties or other problems...just one hell of a temper. Though, he wouldn’t have one out anywhere. He knows better than that.

Woken up last week at 6am by sobbing coming from DDs room. Go to investigate, she’s sobbing because the corner of her alphabet poster has come loose from the wall. Fix it for her.

She has flatly refused to look at her alphabet poster since then as she is no longer friends with her alphabet poster, alphabet poster is messy. She doesn’t like messy. I’ve explained that it’s now fixed but she’s not having it.

She is a bit of a neat freak (strange but true) and often tidies up after people.

@CastleCrasher to be fair even as a adult I have hunted around the house for stuff ( usually my phone ) when I have it in my hand so a toddler has every right to not notice what he has in his hand !

What an awesome funny supportive thread,
Been having panic attacks lately as I’m pregnant penniless and terrified of doing it all over again and my main fear is the toddler crazy years I’m scared of ... I could literally cry with gratitude at all your hilarious sharing, it so fucking important 😘👏