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?

The last few days tantrums have been.

I wouldn’t let him pick his wee wee up in his hands out of the toilet.
He wanted an apple, he had a apple in each hand at the tIme
He didn’t want to touch the floor, but wouldn’t get up or let me pick him up off the floor that he was lying on.

@Minai

My 2 year old sobbed the other day because he wanted to hold a toy car in each hand but also wanted to eat his lunch. He didn’t want me to help feed him. He didn’t want to put down the cars and just got more and more angry and sad at not being able to pick up his food. There’s no reasoning with that sort of lunacy

This is lovely. It's an existential problem. Resolve this

I want to hold a car in each hand.
I want to eat my lunch.
I do not want to be fed by another.

Face in the trough like a piglet is the answer I think.

These threads always remind me of the marvellous Cutted Up Pear incident which makes me laugh. This will cheer you OP if you haven't read it before - more of the same but from an AIBU toddler perspective

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/1301196-If-my-3yo-had-access-to-AIBU

Some of these are hilarious.

But reading this thread has actually made me quite sad. Wish my dd would actually have a funny tantrum like this. She non verbal got gdd and suspected asd so her tantrums just involve her getting upset and us trying to figure out what’s wrong.

She has recently however been having a tantrum recently and trying to drag us out the house goes and stands next to the car because she wants to sit in it 🙄

Oh and he had a tantrum last night because he didn’t want cheese on his pasta. After he’d eaten it.

I can't stop laughing that that ^^

Please ignore onlyone's attention seeking. It'd be a shame to let the thread become all about them.

Lowlight for me was not-yet-verbal toddler having an enormous tantrum because she both wanted her dressing gown on but at the same time didn’t want it on. She was screaming, crying, inconsolable. For 45 minutes. At 5am. Our poor, poor neighbours.

Have also had the want to go to bed / actually my bed is akin to molten lava and I must not touch it tantrum.

Love reading everybody’s stories! Toddlers are bizarre and wonderful

i Love these threads,
as a parent to 2 twenty somethings. make a note of all these "exploits" your kids will love to hear about them when they are adults.

Milly, that is quite hilarious really.

The thought of you all sitting in the car (if she had her way) and thinking "Errr ok...what now?"

@PookieDo I love how dramatic that is 😂😂😂😂😂

Millymollymandybestie i had that problem (dd has severe sn) so I made silly stories up.

Not a toddler, but my 10yo DD had a massive tantrum last week because I wouldn't tell her which side of the duvet was the top and which the bottom. No matter how I explained to her that it doesn't matter which way you put it in the cover - both sides of the actual duvet are the same. Absolute meltdown and refusal to ever ever ever use the duvet again as it doesn't have a top side or bottom side. Sigh. In her defense, she does have ASD, but is an extremely intelligent child when she chooses to be.

Personally I think JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff wins the thread, haha.

My 2 year old got into my bed at 2.30am last night but wanted to have my pillow sideways in the middle to lay on it. Trying to avoid an argument, I grabbed his pillow from next door for me. He went insane, got out of bed bringing the pillow with him, teaefully screaming WHAT YOU DOIN MUMMY and STOP IT over and over before charging off in the pitch black to put the pillow back. Then he cried on my bedroom floor for 20 minutes before announcing he wanted me to lift him back into my bed as he wanted to go to sleep, which he did immediately

My beautiful child once lost his entire shit because a biscuit was in two halves and not whole. He needed it whole. It was the last one in the packet.

Although Also had strops because daddy couldn't mend our local ruined castle, destroyed in the civil war.. comes a very close second, hahaha!

Have a 6 year old and a 5 year old, so well past toddler stage, and still having many tantrums a day. One this morning as apparently there were too many marshallows in her lucky charms..she fishes out the marshmallows to eat first as she prefers them to the cereal! Had one from DS once as he was upset that he had just noticed the nail on his little toe was small..

Sobbing because it was raining and he couldn’t BE a stew. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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

I'm trying to imagine my DP face, when I proceed to ask him to make me a ham sandwich but take the crust off, tell him I don't like this one because it has no crust. Then throw it on the floor, then cry because I'm hungry for a ham sandwich all while shouting.

Actually you're half right, Toddlers are the abusive ones!

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!😨.
Picked him up and beat a hasty retreat....

Twins having a melt down they set each other off, that is another level of hell.

Twins are a special kind of madness with tantrums. Usually one set the other off, but my favourite was the day they both tantrummed a lot because "She looks the same as me"

Yeah, sorry girls, there's very little I can do to make you look less identical (they already had different hairstyles)

Yeah, sorry girls, there's very little I can do to make you look less identical (they already had different hairstyles)

Haha, I cant imagine having actual twins, but DS and DD look so similar and we get these meltdowns. X looks like me but with short hair, change his face around! and that. People do ask if they are twins a lot, and they are very very close when not tantruming and fighting mind. But a year and a half between them.

Yep! Wanted cake before dinner. Wasn't going to happen. Melt down for 40 minutes. Totes Ridic.

Mine had a tantrum because he couldn’t see my belly button

Toddler dd very proudly peed on the loo today then quickly jumped off to admire it, she then said can I drink it? Erm, no, it's wee, BUT I WANT TO DRINK IT!
Strangest tantrum ever.

the whole in her socks felt wrong on her skin
the sand was wet
the pillow didnt dent behind her head like she wanted.

@Mummabear2212 DS had a full meltdown because I couldn't make the cow in the field go baa. 😄😄