To think my toddler is ridiculous

[ginandnappies]

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?

Love this thread! Wish I'd found it 12 hours ago though when I was getting to the end of my tether with my own tantruming toddler!
All the fun sponges sat on their high horses need to get a life though, it's supposed to be a laugh

don't talk about abuse lady, you clearly have NO IDEA

my ds turns 3 next weekend, had full-on melt down because the water he was playing with was too wet. he also said he had a bad tatoe in his tummy ! bless.. so yes, there often IS an underlying reason for their outbursts, but mum's sharing the trials & tribulations of motherhood is hardly abusive, now is it??

They are marvellous (post event) memories of utter craziness often linked to tiredness but brace yourself, it is training camp for the teens - giant hormone filled toddlers ...lovable and frustrating in equal measure!! Sometimes laugher is all that gets you through

Please write every one of these crazy things down!! They are adorable!

You'll soon be in another stage and you'll miss this crazy tyranny.

My dd grabbed her bottom with both hands and wailed "NOOOO MUMMYYYY!!!! Please don't spank me!!!"

WTH???? We were in line at the book store and I never spanked her!! Nobody in our family did. She was about 3yo.

EVERY person looked at me like I was the abuser from hell.

I was paying for the books at the time, I just stared at her in disbelief and confusion.

Then she giggled and sat in her cart happily. I tried to explain to the clerk ....but she just glared at me.

We hurried out of the store and to this day, i have no idea why she did that.

There wasn't abuse....just a cheeky girl.

Apparently DD was in bed and cried, calling for daddy so he goes rushing up..”what’s the matter DD”
“I’m tired” 😂❤️

Oh, but it doesn't stop at toddlers.... My 21 year old dd has just had a massive tantrum because I can't find the moth that woke her up fluttering about her room. I genuinely can't find it. She's currently sitting in the hall refusing to go back in her room. Loving these posts. Fond memories!

Yup. Another one here today because a duck walked in the wrong direction

The audacity!

Anyone else's toddler just started bolting? DD just started this weekend. Thought we'd skipped that stage.

@Ivy40 I remember having a horrible tv unit which I replaced. The new one was delivered late at night and I was so happy with it I set it up straight away. 1yo DS came downstairs the next morning, stared at the new unit, looked at me, looked back at the unit, tutted and sighed before turning to me and saying 'why have you done that? Put it back, now!' It took him quite a while to get used to it and he even refused to watch tv for a few days because he hated the sight of the new unit so much

This is the best! My LO is 20 months and asks "WHY?" to everything. She has tantrums and usually wins a fight with her 5yr old sister. She will cry and if I don't respond to her (physically or verbally) She will stop crying and call me to get my attention and then start crying again!!!!! If I didn't laugh sometimes, I would've been put in the looney bin ages ago.
This thread should be prescribed lol

Even though they are ridiculous it's probably best not to Lough as they learn quickly and 2 years down the line they may be loughing in your face when you are trying to get them to do something in hurry.😉

Well obviously toddlers do throw tantrums over the silliest of things, and yes sometimes we parents can't help but laugh, obviously not in their little faces in a way that belittles or provokes them 😁 as long as they feel loved overall and know that we care about them I see no harm in laughing at their often absurd (to us) behaviour.

Mine is 2.5 and we had 2 epic tantrums this week.

Tantrum 1, i 'dirtied' (their words) the toilet by daring to do a wee AND poo in THEIR toilet. Ended up with me having to demonstrate the toilet cleaning.

Tantrum 2: i chose the wrong knickers. Apparently the right tv show ones but the dirty ones they'd just had an accident in were the ones they wanted.

There was also a tantrum because they wanted cake and the cake was chocolate but didnt look it (in their opinion, it was a double choc muffin!).

Although not quite a toddler anymore, my DS who is 8 collects the LOL Dolls, he knows all they're names, knows which clothes/shoes/accessory each and every one of them wears....One day his cousin had asked could she play with them and went on to change all they're outfits and shoes and my goodness he had the biggest meltdown ever! He was soooo upset that she undressed his LOL dolls and swapped they're outfits/shoes.....Needless to say he never let her play with them again and he still hides them now!

I was always very wary of bananas. You peel it for them and they wanted to do it themselves, one day you cut it into slices as requested but the next you've done the worst thing ever. And the times when you hand them the whole peeled banana and they manage to break it in half.... no amount of explaining that I couldnt magically fix it helped that situation. Even offering to glue it together with nutella didn't pacify the raging toddler.
Thinking back, we had quite a few fruit based toddler melt downs!

@needanappp you need to go to the Natural History Museum where you can indeed hold the moon! (kind of).

@Shesellsseashellsontheseashore Love the offer of trying to glue the banana back together with Nutella 😂 Wish I had come up with that back then!

DGS doesn't really do meltdowns, just angry shouting/whining for a minute or so. The triggers are just as ridiculous: why aren't socks edible, or why can't I wee out of the window, or why won't you get me that dog RIGHT NOW.

it all swings in round abouts. My toddler would melt down over square sammies over triangles, or vise versa (basically wanted the opposite of what ever you made)

Teenager has melt down over wrong snacks.

I have melt down over waking up to find ive used the last of the coffee and today is a big coffee needing day...

I understand their pain.

DD (now 6) had around 6 meltdowns a day for about 3 years, it was exhausting - the only way I could get through it was to regard it with a wry detachment and chuckle about it later!

Being an arsehole, I have, at various times, abused my toddler daughter by:

• giving her the thing she asked for
• not letting her play with the kitchen knives or the glasses
• saying 'ouch' when she headbutted me
• bleeding when she headbutted me another time
• trying to feed her some delicious chips
• not understanding what "The long programme" is (turns out, it's Beauty & The Beast with Emma Watson)
• putting up her umbrella because she couldn't do it but wanted to do it

It gets harder to not laugh the older they get as well.

Yesterday I was so proud of my 16yo DD1 as someone said something cruel about her twin's health conditions and she stood up to them then came home and had a rant to DH and I about how nasty they were and how no-one should be saying such things about anyone, but especially not about her sister...

Less than an hour later she stormed into the living room insisting that we need to rejig the rooms as she needs her own room as DD2 had at some point moved her pillow and now DD wasn't going to be able to sleep for at least a week as it'll take ages to get comfy and to add insult to injury DD2 was already asleep and when she's asleep she looks "smug".

@Shesells the broken banana one is a frequent meltdown in this house 🙈😂

Ds1 now age 21 was about 2 and had the biggest screaming, throw himself on the floor, holding his breath tantrum because we wouldn't let him wash the kitten... In the washing machine. This lasted almost an hour.