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?

Haha love these, make a note of them because they will be even funnier in the future :)

My 2 year old didn’t want to walk or be carried through the changing village at the swimming pool today so I walked on and left her to sort herself out and watched what she did from a distance. She crawled! Which attracted several worried older ladies who had to be reassured that she wasn’t injured and can walk. I don’t think they believed me until she jumped up and ran for the last bit!

My 17m old had a tantrum today because she dropped her crisps on the carpet .. I helped her pick them up and put them in the bag which made her get really irritated and full on meltdown and wanted to tip them back out. I went to the loo. Came back she had tipped them out was sat in the floor facing the wall / furniture eating them.. Doing ' choochoo yum goo'girl.
I did have a giggle but more of how can you go from Being the devil child to so sweet an innocent pmsl

I think @onlyone..... needs to change their name to 'alwaysone' 🤦‍♀️

My 2 year old is t too bad.
5 year old however has had some epic tantrums in her time. She wanted lunch, so I gave her lunch. That was a mistake. She wanted her sandwich cut into squares, then changed her mind so I cut the squares into triangles, then she wanted squares again. We changed her bed sheets, she wanted the old one back but they were in the wash. That was a long bed time. There were more, but they’re the ones that stick in my mind.

we were just discussing with my 18 year old about her most famous tantrum of all, the one which still breaks him out in a cold sweat.

We were on our first holiday together, DP and I had been together about a couple of years and my DD was around 3 1/2.
We were (luckily) the only people in a restaurant and we had finished out main course, and we about to order desert. The choice was listed on the menu and my daughter decided she would like some lemon meringue pie.
But there was none.
This caused the biggest meltdown I think anyone had ever seen. She was just howling 'I want lemon meringue pie', and no other option was to her liking. This was also completely out of character because, absolutely honestly, she had NEVER had a tantrum before. It was as if she had saved them all up for this moment.
My partner had to go to the bar in the other room because he just couldnt cope with it.
In the end I got the waitress to simply pretend that they had found some, and took advantage of the fact that she had no idea what lemon meringue pie was. I think they gave her a lemon sorbet instead.
That was 15 years ago.
It still fills me with horror and is referred to as the Lemon Meringue Pie incident.
Im not sure any of us were laughing at her, so no abuse happening

My 2 year old had painted a jar made of pottery and wanted to take it to show her grandparents. She was so proud but she was angry when I suggested putting it in a bag for the journey. She didn’t want it to break. She was so angry at my suggestion that she threw the jar and broke it anyway.

We've had 2 ridiculous ones recently:

1. because he couldn't have crocodile and chips for dinner
2. because he couldn't hold the moon

Sorry late replies because little ragey pants woke up. The replies I've read have been golden and I will reply tomorrow once I've hopefully slept (the gin should help) x

My DC (now out of toddlerhood) once had a hissy fit because I offered spaghetti for lunch.
"What do you want? Spaghetti?"
"Yes"
"Okay, with sauce?"
"No."
"No sauce?"
"No s'getti."
I then suggested a sandwich and that caused even more of a ruckus because apparently saying "I don't want spaghetti" didn't actually mean "I don't want spaghetti."

He wanted to take his whole playroom to his nan’s house....

Today's highlight was DD refusing to nap, then shouting "Bed! Bed!" as soon as I'd taken her out. Then screaming again when I put her back down.

My favourite was when I took her and her buddy out in a double pram, and gave each of them a rice cake. She gobbled hers down in seconds then looked at his, then stared up at me with hate for giving him a snack and not her. That was a fun walk.

DS had a full meltdown because I couldn't make the cow in the field go baa.

Another time he was distraught because he wanted to walk to the car but didn't want his foot to touch the floor. If I tried to pick him up that made it worse because he wanted to walk

They're absolutely mad toddlers, but when he smiles at me all is right in the world

Threads like this make me feel normal!

I was driving DD to her Surestart group one morning when she was 3. A song came on the radio which was very popular when I was a fresher at uni. Cue loads of lovely memories of being young, carefree and full of pineapple Bacardi breezers, dancing around in my favourite club with my mates.....brought very quickly back down to earth by DD sobbing in the back of the car because the rain was making her window wet 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

Also @onlyoneoftheregimentinstep you'd hate to be in our house if you think laughing at a toddlers tantrum is abusive. Go get a glass of wine and chill

Every morning my son wakes up and wants jooooooosh, his dad brings his cup up before work and every single day he goes ballistic, throws the cup then proceeds to drink it.

This morning my 2 year old had a tantrum because I told her she couldn't have her own iPhone - because she is 2!!!! 🤦‍♀️

Ah god!
when we were on holiday and the “tide keeps covering the sand! Make it stop it!”

He’s now adamant we cannot go on holiday again, unless I can “stop the tide doing the covering”

Not a tantrum as such, but tonight DD 4yo remarked solemnly, "last night I did get up many times."

Me: yes. I remember. Sigh.

DD: I do not know if I will get up this night. Maybe I will sleep all night. Or maybe I will get up four times. We'll find out, won't we, Mummy?

I guess we will.

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

Actually he often does laugh at me because I lose my shit once a month and he is right to do so. It makes me laugh cause then I recognise hormones for what they are. Its not abusive.

DD asks me to tell her stories of when she was a baby/toddler. I relate these tales of how she had tantrums and why and she laughs her head off. No harm done. Only last year age 7 she cried because her father told her a story about her and her fav character. She burst into tears because in the story they climbed a rainbow. Shes afraid of heights. Now she laughs at it.

I'm actually crying at all of these. A mix of gin, tiredness,how mental toddlers are and sheer realisation that we're all in the same boat (well most of us) x

I can honestly say it’s taken me years to laugh about them. At the time they were not really all that funny!

My toddler cries because he is crying, then he cries louder because he can't stop!! It's a problem.

@JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff laughed at that

My eldest once cried the whole way home from preschool, because the fog that had been there in the morning was gone, and I wouldn't put it back