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?

Don’t shoot me but lots of your toddlers sound rude 😬
I know they’re only young and they’re trying to manage their emotions and they can be irrational. I was with a school friend during the week and witnessed what others call a “spirited” 3 year old. He was really rude to me, my dc and his younger (baby) siblings.
There’s cute toddler behaviour and then there are toddlers getting away with being brats. Some of what has been posted here I wouldn’t be laughing at..

My daughter once sobbed for 10 minutes because we put her nappy on her. Then Daddy put one on his head to make her laugh, so she cried for 10 minutes because she was angry at being tricked into laughing.

My son had a screaming, snot bubbles, wild eye nostril flaring tantrum because "the moon is chasing us!" When we drove home one night. Poor kid was just terrified the whole way, and his big sister tried to comfort him by shaking her finger and yelling "bad moon!" At it.

Oh, and middle son used to call all fruit and vegetables 'apple' until he learned their names So one day he asked for an apple and was given one. Screaming tantrum that took 10 minutes for us to understand as he managed to gasp between sobs "not...that...apple...different...apple...the...orange...one!"

My DD threw a massive strop because I wouldn't take off my boobs and give them to her to wear!

Expecting my first (wide awake with pregnancy insomnia) and crying with laughter at these. Thanks for cheering up a boring night’s non-sleep. Looking forward to all this in a couple of years’ time...

@OkPedro
Do you actually have kids!!l??
I wouldn't bother if I were you if you can't tell the difference between being rude and having a tantrum over something that to a toddler is the most important thing in the their world (and that we find funny)

@OkPedro you don’t meet many small children, do you? Toddlers’ brains are still developing. The part of the brain which deals
with emotion and impulse control is one of the last ones to fully mature, so it’s not remotely rude - this behaviour is a completely normal stage of human physiological development. Coming onto a parenting thread where lots of people are discussing their children and being unpleasant, on the other hand.... well, some might call THAT rude.

Abusive? There's a website where people post pictures entitled, "my kid's crying because..."

@Whatsername7

Best comment ever!! ROFL

The triggers for tantrums seem totally ridiculous to us but they are very important things for a 2/3 year old. It’s very mean to laugh at them, however funny they might seem.

DD is 3 and hates EVERYTHING.

She hates having water but also not having water.

She hates her nap but also not having a nap.

She ‘doesn’t like daddy’ but also cries when he leaves for work.

And has spent all this week alternately telling me or DH that we are her best friend and she doesn’t like the other one.

Send 🍷

There are some bizarre po faced posts on here but yes I do laugh at my toddler’s tantrums- otherwise you’d cry. Mine has had some epic ones over the years. Generally now, she’ll only kick off if she’s tired and I’ve ruined one of her imaginary games in some way. But, at 3, it’s not the tantrums that are making me laugh- it’s the very adult expressions combined with 3 year old brain. In the last few days:

*child: Mummy. Sit down. I’ve got something very important to tell you.

• me (slightly freaking out) ok darling what is it.

• child: I’m going to sing head, shoulders knees and toes tomorrow....

I also get regularly floored by slightly out there questions. The other night in the bath she asked me who was going to die next.

Don’t shoot me but lots of your toddlers sound rude 😬
I know they’re only young and they’re trying to manage their emotions and they can be irrational. I was with a school friend during the week and witnessed what others call a “spirited” 3 year old. He was really rude to me, my dc and his younger (baby) siblings.
There’s cute toddler behaviour and then there are toddlers getting away with being brats. Some of what has been posted here I wouldn’t be laughing at

Another vote for you not having children. I used to be like you. A 2/3 years old doesn’t understand these things - they’re still learning! I would agree with you if it was a much older child...

Toddlers are ridiculous x

Yeah, the more po-faced comments on here remind me why I'd never seek serious child-rearing advice on Mumsnet. In the same thread, you're likely to be told that:

• You're a child-abuser for seeing in the humour in your toddler's demand to be simultaneously in and out of the bath, or for mummy not to have feet; and
• You're a bad parent for not seeing those kind of pronouncements as a serious disciplinary offence.

(Personally, I think brisk sympathy and a sense of humour is a pretty good way of dealing with most toddler tantrums. In my experience, parents who validate their toddler's belief that, yes darling, this minor thing is a terrible catastrophe are the parents who end up with exhausting drama queen preschoolers who fall on the ground shrieking every time they're asked to share a toy or the cafe doesn't have the snack they want).

My dd’s worst tantrum was when she was 4. We were on a bus to the airport after a holiday in Ibiza. The rep was trying to give some information about flights. Suddenly dd said quite calmly”
Switch off the sun!
Me: I can’t do that but you are in the shade and we are nearly there.
Switch it off (loudly)
Me: Shhh I can’t hear the lady
SWITCH IT OFF (shrieked)
YOU CAN!!
At which point even other family members moved away and the rep turned up the microphone. I ended up putting my hand over her mouth, she bit it! The shrieking went on till we got to the airport.

DS, 2, gave me his last chocolate button, trying to ram it down my throat, adamant I had to have it. So... I ate it. He then ran, crying to daddy, that I had dared to eat his last chocolate button. You know, after trying to force feed me it.

2nd best one, was when he choose the orange bowl for his breakfast, then kicked off because I had dared to give him his breakfast in an orange bowl. That was a fun morning

They’re lovely, funny and frustrating, often all at the same time.

DD had a meltdown because her banana was broken. It was broken because she had just eaten half of it. She wanted a new one.

Saw this on FB the other day and it made me giggle.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/awesomer/reasons-kids-are-pretty-much-just-tiny-drunk-adults

Hoping @onlyone isn’t going to report me to Social Service’s for laughing at it though!

Another fruit one. DGS asked for a narnie and pointed to the fruit bowl so I gave him a banana. Minor tantrum ensued until it turned out he wanted an apple. He called all fruit narnies for some time after that.

We went through McDonald’s drive thru yesterday morning and got my 2yo a bagel with jam, he ate one half then ate half of the other half and said he’d had enough and gave it to me. I asked him a couple more times if he wanted any more and he said no. We sat in the car a while longer while I finished my coffee then I put all the rubbish in the bag and chucked it in one of the drive past bins. He screamed all the way home for his “toast and jam” 😩

@Whiskeylover45

I’ve had something similar with DNiece and plates.

What colour plate do you want your sandwich on?
Red
But I want the blue plate.
So I picked up the sandwich and put it on the blue plate instead. Still wouldn’t eat it because it had been on the red plate first.

Love these. My DS at age 2 was the master at changing his mind once it was too late eg I want triangle sandwiches, then as soon as they were cut, NO I WANT SQUARES! This applied to pretty much everything he was given a choice of two for, which was a lot as it's supposed to make them feel in control, HA!

At 3 he is more cutting, sassy and sometimes vicious than tantrummy, but he still throws some crackers sometimes. He's all about winning, even though he never wins, and he once threw the most hilarious shit fit at the top of the stairs because I'd beat him in a race upstairs at bedtime (I only won because he refused to go upstairs altogether!). DH and I were CRYING, it did feel a bit mean as that only wound him up more, but it was too funny.

My DD14 had a tantrum recently because she couldn't draw her eyebrows on straight and she couldn't go to school with wonky eyebrows, she also couldn't go with no eyebrows painted on because she looks like a 2 year old. Yes she is 14 🙄

JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff

Sorry.
I know you are the one dealing with tantrumming twins. But the chicken Devil sandwich and the eye hiding did make me grin!

This morning everything was going well until I got her dressed and she undressed herself so I got her dressed again (massive battle, I was sweating!) Struggled to get her in her car seat, screamed all the way into town.
Screaming ‘I don’t want to go to the farm park’.
So I just stopped the car, went to Starbucks, had a lovely coffee and drove back home. She then announces that she would like to go to the farm park (this was the original plan) but I’ve explained that I am not taking her because —she has been an arsehole— of her behaviour this morning.

God it’s so draining sometimes. :(

Sorry forgot to post my contribution which I think I have posted before.

DS1 has an epic tantrum on holiday due to wanting to go out but not.

So he decided to remove his clothes in his car seat, all without taking his harness off. (Quite impressed by that)
We then continued to destination with naked squealing child in car trying to not laugh and giving reassuring smiles to confused fellow drivers whenever we stopped at traffic lights.

There really was no point stopping to try and get him dressed again as he would just do it again, take a swipe and get twice as angry.

As predicted was absolutely fine when we arrived got dressed and went happily skipping off along nature trail looking for bugs.