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?

Just turned 3 yr old Ds had toilet accident couple of weeks ago after we thought he had the training down pat. Queue furious tantrum with dd7 who he insists is guilty of soiling his pants (while they were on him, and she was upstairs nowhere near him).

2 year old just had huge melt down because he wanted the juicy book. We don't have a juicy book.... He pointed to his juice and said juice story! So I made up a story about a blackcurrant 🙈 he then screamed when story finished.

Jelly was "TOO WIB-BEL-LEY"
cucumber finger was "TOO GREEN"
His head was "TOO HAIRY"
The worst was at a pizza hut following the construction of his own ice cream creation, he howled between each spoonful because it was "TOO NOMMY".

@worlybear thanks for this. I'm drink no tea and nearly choked

Many years ago I was in Mothercare with DS aged 2.
He decided to have an epic tantrum and flung himself on the floor screaming loudly.
Conscious of disapproving looks I cheerfully told him to get up when he was ready and walked away fully expecting him to follow.
I reached the entrance and turned round to see how far behind he was only to spot him where I had left him flapping like a stranded fish.
He was wearing a paddington bear duffle coat and it was so heavy he couldn't get up!😨.

I think some of the naysayers on here have missed the point, that in most cases, these tantrums weren't funny at the time, and parents weren't laughing.
They're hilarious NOW, of course.

• @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!)

@JaneEB * not sure if you meant to tag me in this or if you did can you explain why?? I don't feel i have made any comment to suggest I disagree with this thread.. the total opposite in fact as only comment i made was ridiculing a post of a snowflake who disagreed with it.

YANBU- my nephew had a tantrum because he couldn’t put his hands in his pockets like all the men in our family were doing- stood around in their suits with their hands in their pockets. it was at my nanas funeral. It was hilarious

@Northie my 16mo has been doing exactly the same thing for the last few months!

"OMG DOOR! Must shut it! Omg the door shut 😭 ".

Hahahaaaa. Love this!
My DS had a meltdown on the beach because he couldn’t hold the donkeys lead-rope and take it for a walk.
I had a major tantrum as a kid cos I couldn’t keep the squirrel monkey I had held to have my photo taken with.
The hardest was when I was on holiday with a friend, and her little girl was in full on wailing meltdown because she had lost her imaginary friend 🙈 and it was all my fault because I sat in her seat!!! That one went on for ageeeees. Lots of concerned people thought we were looking for an actual child!!

These are hilarious.
My favourites are when my DD who was about 2 and half at the time had a tantrum on a sunny day when her shadow wouldn't get off her. We walked home in all the shady patches we could find and she cried every time we had to walk in the sun as it still hadn't let go.
Another time she had an epic tantrum when she was inheriting her big sisters toddler bed and we eventually realised it's because she didn't like the decorative gold swirls on the side.
She slept on a mattress on the floor for 2 weeks until it occurred to us to put Minnie Mouse stickers over the swirls and then it was fine (you could still see the swirls).
Toddlers are bonkers.

@GinSpinster calm down. Accusing people of being bad parents for being human - I’ve never read such a ludicrous statement.

I’m sure all of the lovely PP who have shared their fantastic stories are more than capable parents and many have even explained they had acknowledged their DC’s feelings, tried to reason with them to help them calm down etc.

There is no ‘one shoe fits all’ approach to parenting. Just because you happen to disagree on this particular issue doesn’t give you the right to pass judgment.

I was raised by my Grandparents from birth and they were both wind up merchants throughout my entire childhood and adolescence - I’m sure they had a good laugh at my unreasonable tantrums too when I was a toddler. I’m a quite well rounded adult with lovely children of my own now and sometimes I can’t help but smile at some of their toddler tantrums.

So I believe that a bit of laughter at a ludicrous situation (and let’s face it a lot of toddler tantrums are ludicrous) will not mentally damage or emotionally stunt a child who is loved and cared for.

Mine wanted me to take the car to the playpark instead of the bike, I helped him through it and we took the bike.

When we were hit by a massive thunderstorm and got soaking wet he reminded me we should have taken the car.

Oh just remembered the most epic tantrum my son had in the middle of Asda - because I refused to buy frozen broccoli!!!!! I had fresh broccoli in the trolley!!! The whole supermarket was howling at this, when they realised he wasn’t screaming and wailing for sweets/toys etc.

So to add to the twin toddler tantrums.

DD will get extremely cross when DS has ANY toy - she stockpiles them around herself and even if he chooses a toy that is not in her pile she feels it must be promptly added to it. I then take the toy back and explain her DB is playing with that one, she has the others to play with - cue massive meltdown.

DS is a much faster eater and often gives me silent evils when he notices his sister still has food in front of her. Gets angry when I won’t let him steal food from her and then - yep - big loud, bottom lip quivering snot bubbles crying. I often have a bit of their meal/snack in reserve for these occurrences but DS isn’t hungry anymore - he just wants DD’s...

Today DD laid in wait (meaning happily playing in her own little world) whilst DS tried to build his block tower (his hand eye coordination is a bit behind so it takes a lot of concentration) when he proudly managed to stack four blocks for the first time she promptly shuffled across the room at a speed I haven’t seen from her before and knocked the block tower over. Inconsolable crying from both of them 😳

Then there’s the ‘game’ of who cries loudest/longest - before I’m accused of being an awful Mum. It most definitely is a competition because they will stop shouting, crack an eye open to look at me and then at each other and then it begins anew. No tears until they’ve worked themselves up to the point of actual crying. They’re competing for my attention all the time and it must be frustrating for them, but one parent and two tantrumming toddlers makes for a very difficult dilemma (because this never happens when DH is at home, even if he’s solo parenting whilst I’m out for a bit, the competitive crying seems to be exclusively for me 😂😩).

DD decided yesterday that it wasn’t fair DS got his nappy changed first in the morning (he’d had a poo and she had a wet nappy) so she took her nappy off in her cot whilst I was sorting DS and dropped it out of the cot aiming for DS’s head... that one I couldn’t help but laugh about (in private because I don’t want her to think it’s okay to drop her soiled nappies on her brothers face!!).

They turn 2 this October and I’m hoping that the terrible twos is a myth! (Please don’t break my naive bubble haha).

Daddy wouldn"t lick his fingers... sorry to the couple at the table next to us!

You are lucky your twins didn't try to change each others nappies. Books and toys had to be destroyed

My now 5yo has some epic tantrums and weird little adventures, that we used to have quite a popular Snapchat feed. Some of the things he did were beyond ridiculous, including a massive hissy fit because I wouldn’t let him have a wash IN THE WASHING MACHINE, instead of in the bath.
The best one was fairly recently actually. He wanted the crisps, they were spicy ones, I told him this, he cried. Then, despite my insistence that he wouldn’t like them, he screamed because they were too spicy. I just saw him bolt into the kitchen, yelling WAAAAAAAATERRRRRRRRRRRR at my father in law

CaptainmyCaptain - Oh God! I hadn’t even considered that possibility! They’re not climbing out of their cots yet but when they do I get the feeling I’m going to be extremely busy!

My 2yo cried because she didn't want nipples anymore because they were "too silly"

@Littlemissamy that’s so funny I remember trying some of my uncles extremely spicy curry when I was 6 and I had insisted I’d be fine - I cried after two spoonfuls and was then informed he’d given me Korma 😳

Is it wrong I read the last bit of your post in the voice of Happy from Hey Duggee??

Oh, Oliver went through a stage of becoming very attached to really random objects. The fridge sticks out very clearly in my mind - I had an under counter fridge, but bought a fridge/freezer, so the original fridge had to go. Well, if I’ve ever seen a paddy like it, I certainly don’t remember. My god, this bloke came to pick up the fridge, and Oliver must’ve overheard me at the door because he grabbed as many toys as he could carry, climbed inside the fridge with them, and tried to lock himself in it. He was maybe 2 at the time, and all we could see were his little hands holding the door shut, and all we could hear was him screaming NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I had to drag him out, and shut him in the living room while I got the fridge out of the kitchen, but he was making such a fuss that in the end I had to leave this random bloke in my kitchen to remove it himself while I tried to stop Oliver from choking on his own rage induced vomit. It was mental. The man was visibly shocked and uncomfortable, and even offered to leave it. Hell no, rage the fridge, just get it out ASAP. It took weeks for oliver to get over it. He got over it by stealing my oven glove and refusing to go to bed/the car/another room/in the bath without it. Pure lunacy.

And yes, I laughed at him a lot. He’s a well rounded kid now with a great sense of humour.

Who is this person???

We had Terrific Twos, however, when we were in Clarks as DD was outgrowing her first shoes, she screamed the place down as she didn't want the assistant to take her shoes away.

Staff in the adult section asked me if everything was ok when we left.

I didnt dare go back for 2 years, and when we did return, the sales assistant remembered us and the incident!

We got an old sofa removed and gave it to charity. DD had such a massive meltdown. Screaming NOOO, that’s my sofa and tried to climb in top of it while the men were trying to take it out of the house. It took ages to persuade her to let it go. She was very suspicious of the new sofa when it arrived.

DS is almost 10, he was a great toddler, very, very rare tantrums. But since he went to school - OMG he has had a few.
Most recent was because his dad left him at g.aunts caravan and he didn’t get to say an extra goodbye cos DH had already left,
He’s been going to g.aunts caravan for 5 years for 1week in summer hols. DH said goodbye, then we both got texts saying we had to pick him up right now and he was never coming again 😵
I managed to finally speak to him about an hour after text and he was totally fine. Just had a melt down, talked it over with g.aunt and decided he was ok.
He also woke up about 2am crying because he had forgotten to miss me while he was at caravan 🤷🏻‍♀️
I fear this will not end any time soon and the teenage years may be hell.