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?

@onlyoneoftheregimentinstep . Can you explain how the mums who’ve shared their stories are being abusive?

Mine held her breath, passed out and ended up in A&E because she dropped her yoghurt on the floor

Yep.. toddlers are trying to manage their emotions and it’s tough but BLOODY HELL I think it’s ok for parents to vent!! My 3 year old has EPIC tantrums which I find incredibly hard. I try everything sometimes, and do occasionally laugh in utter desperation. But these kind of threads make me feel a bit better. I reckon no kids were harmed and all recovered from the trauma of said tantrum! Whether we do is a different matter!

Actually I think @onlyoneoftheregimentinstep wins the thread for most ridiculous tantrum of all...

@onlyoneoftheregimentinstep

Are you a toddler?? Is that why you’re riled by this post??

Anyway, in sympathy with the OP and PPs (because even though it’s not toddlers’ faults that they feel emotions so strongly, it is incredibly exhausting for those around them and laughing about it anonymously with strangers is not going to harm them).... DD 2.5 lost her shit last week because the ice lolly she’d asked for was “too cold” 🤦‍♀️

@Lana1234

Don't despair! I had one little munchkin (nanny) who was impossible from 18 months. I was dreading her hitting 2 but when she did she improved so drastically it was a lovely surprise, so you never know!

I won't tell you what a horror she was at 3, nor what an impossible brat she is at 6...

My 3yo is delightful until bedtime, then suddenly he remembers every grievance he's had over the last 3 years of his life. We get called upstairs because:
I'll never eat chicken again
I want my dinosaur bed back (redecorated about 18 months ago?!)
I didn't eat my tomato/cheese/crusts (that he refused to eat at lunchtime, 3 days ago)
I want all my glow in the dark stars taken away
My blanket is saying things to me

And this week's classic: I'll never learn to speak French (because dd15 was speaking French about 6 weeks ago)

My toddler and my 8 year old had a huge tantrummy day the other day. Melt down at my mums, meltdown whilst food shopping. Arguing non stop, etc. I handled it well. Kept my cool, reprimanded them in a safe, secure, gentle but firm way blah, blah blah. I was shocked and outraged when dh commented that I seemed to have no patience left with my children at the end of the day. I demanded he made his case after my expert parenting of the day and he pointed out that I had literally just responded to his comment about taking the girls out to buy shoes with 'I wouldn't, they are both twats'. I never even realised I'd said it.

DS - wanted his digger toy, which he was holding. I said he was holding it. He yelled for it even louder.

I point to it, saying "there's your digger, it's in your hand". This continues on several more times, me trying different ways of showing him that he already has the digger, and him yelling louder and louder for it.

Then all of a sudden he holds it up and says, in a totally calm and happy voice "there's my digger, I found it! Thank you mummy" batshit, I tell you!

YANBU they're mental

Crying eating a gingerbread man oh no eaten his leg 😭 But still eating it....

@onlyoneoftheregimentinstep You are quite bonkers.

I have had toddlers, many years ago. I spent many years at home with toddlers. I love them to bits. They are the most brilliant inventions, EVER. Mine were, at time, very trying. But they were also hilarious. For sheer joy and randomness and general brilliance, absolutely nothing beats toddlers. They ought to be bottled and sold.

If I could swap lives with anyone, it would be with myself when my children were toddlers. I'm not sure how anyone could regard that as abusive, unless they are living in a parallel universe.

My personal favourite was when his cheese sandwich was too cheesy and too bready...

I regularly abuse my toddler by laughing at him.

The dog wouldn’t give him a kiss goodnight. It was 8:30am and the dog wasn’t even home as she’d already been collected by the dog walker.

@pookiedo 😂😂 i’d be upset if I dropped my yoghurt too!

My 2 year old son's latest tantrum - he didn't want a baby sister, he wanted a frog!

DS has a tantrum this morning because I dared to actually make him breakfast 🤔

@Kungfupanda67 not long after that she threw herself back wards onto my face breaking my nose the day we were leaving for a holiday because I wouldn’t let her watch any more episodes of Noddy

She is 16 now

I don’t have any kids but I once babysat a three-year-old who took off all his clothes, threw himself on the floor and screamed for twenty minutes with snot all over his face because he apparently hadn’t had a chance to say goodbye to the dog-walker when he dropped off the family’s dog a good four hours before I even arrived at the house.

My toddler woke up last week, rolled over, looked at me, narrowed his eyes and said with venom only a 3 yo can muster

IM NOT YOUR FRIEND ANYMORE

Much questioning later, it transpired in his dream I’d thwarted a toddler whim (“you wouldn’t let me do it in my sleeps!!!”) (never found out what “it” was) and he was in a honking great mood for the rest of the day.

If that isn’t funny, I don’t know what is.

@PookieDo wins the thread.

@onlyoneoftheregimentinstep if I was screaming/crying/stamping etc because my partner cut my apple incorrectly/wouldn’t let me sleep in the wardrobe/I didn’t want to eat something I had already eaten and my partner laughed, no one would call him abusive, they would be telling him to leave me!

Parents need to share this stuff (because I find it hilarious) to get through it with their sanity intact I would imagine!

imagine you were desperately upset about something and your OH laughed - it's abusive.

Jesus wept