My nephew thinks IABU

[Greenandcabbagelooking]

I am looking after my 3 year old nephew and 18 month old niece. I made dinner, pasta and tomato sauce, which SIL assures me he loves. I offer grated cheese on his pasta, which he declines. Niece and I have cheese. Nephew loses his shit because we have cheese and he doesn't. I offer cheese again. Nope. Clearly none of us should be having cheese.

I love them both dearly, but why are small humans so unreasonable?

they are still unreasonable as a teen too.. just more sweary

😂

🤣🤣🤣.. the joy of the three year olds mind.

I would say it gets better. But I'd be lying. 😂

The good thing is that I get to return them to my brother and SIL tomorrow. Best bit about being an auntie!

I came very, very, dangerously close to telling my beloved two year old daughter to fuck off last night over a peach. She wanted a peach, I gave her a peach, she screamed at me in absolute hysterics that she wanted a peach. I explained it was a peach. I gave her the fruit bowl, she chose a peach, the same peach! Then started screaming at me that she wanted a peach.

@bookh

I came very, very, dangerously close to telling my beloved two year old daughter to fuck off last night over a peach. She wanted a peach, I gave her a peach, she screamed at me in absolute hysterics that she wanted a peach. I explained it was a peach. I gave her the fruit bowl, she chose a peach, the same peach! Then started screaming at me that she wanted a peach.

😂😂😂😂😂😂 love this

My son has seperate bowl of cheese for his tea because he doesn't want cheese but then does but doesn't want it on his food......just have it in a bowl and if you don't eat it mommy will (he eats it first do mommy cant eat it) contrary creature

They’re little fuckers.

My childminder and I swap daily tales as he refuses to do stuff for her he does for me and vice versa.

He’s non verbal but Christ he knows everything that’s going on.

It is like living in wonderland isn't it?
My son all day was telling me he's a doctor. "I'm a doctor, mummy. I'm a doctor. I'm a doctor. I'm a doctor mummy." I ask "are you a doctor then?" "nooooooo I'm not a doctor, I'm (his name)" in the tone of voice that I'm being ridiculously silly to think he is a doctor. 🤦‍♀️😂

Another beautiful moment was asking him what he wants to wear black shorts or grey trousers. Black shorts he says. Put black shorts on. Absolutely inconsolable, so upset. "no black shorts, nooooooo, nooooooooo black shorts" Okay we take the black shorts down, he steps out. I expect crying to stop. Nope. "want black shoooooorrrttts, mummy!" Okay, put them back "there that's better, mummy" 🤷‍♀️🥴

One of my nephews was very fussy when he was little so when he came for tea with his siblings, my sister gave me some nuggets and chips for him. He wouldn't eat them because they weren't the same as the ones he had he had at home 😂

My DS at age 2 would agree to eat a banana, would be given a banana and would take one bite out of it, and then would cry and refuse to eat any more banana because the item in his fist was no longer banana-shaped due to having had a bite taken out of it, so was therefore no longer a banana. I had to switch to providing a plate of banana circles instead because they don't change alarmingly when you start eating them.

My dc often used to take the bread off their sandwiches and just eat the ham. One day grandparents were looking after them and they pulled the ham out and just ate the bread. Toddlers are baffling

OP you need to read this thread
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/1852343-Well-That-went-well-didnt-it

I can't wait till DS is doing shit like this 😂

Was sent this video the other day. I think it sums up the stubborn mind of children. vm.tiktok.com/ZMd5gCR2P/

I feel you! Mine had a tantrum earlier because he wanted to wear socks (he was already wearing socks). I also walk around with him wearing two hats because sometimes I just can't face the meltdown 😩

I did DD's hair and she told me off for doing it too tight - fine.

40 mins later I did my laces up and remarked that I'd done them up too tight.

Cue my DD, "Ooh, Mummy, you're an EXPERT at doing things too tight, aren't you?!" With a sarcastic eyebrow...shes 4...

It gets better/worse. After a bath (which was messy), I put them both in PJs. Nephew does not want to wear his PJs. He does want to sleep in his pants. He does not want to sleep naked.

He's asleep in the t-shirt he wore all day. It's a good job my brother is so laid back he's basically horizontal. I text him to check this was ok and bro's response was "Green, if he sleeps, who cares what he wears to do it".

Toddlers eh?!

The worst meltdown I experienced as a nanny was from a 3 year old who liked his sandwiches in squares. He cried one day because he wanted triangles, so I turned the squares into triangles. Then he cried because he didn't want thoooose triangles, they were too small. So I made a second sandwich with 4 triangles instead of 8. Then he wanted squares. He ended up with one sandwich in 8 triangles, one in 4 triangles and one in 4 squares but by that point was so inconsolable that he couldn't eat and all of them had to go into the bin. Then he wailed even louder because I put his sandwiches in the bin. He was an absolute joy 99.9% of the time but there was just no solution that day.

This is so funny. Kids are so contrary! I have my gs over regularly and I've learned to switch off and deep breathe when he's like this. He's now 6 so it's not as bad as used to be.

Yep 3 year olds are absolute nutters.

so he doesn't want to eat? - just take it away and get on with eating yours.

@Greenandcabbagelooking you sound like a lovely auntie

@ThinWomansBrain

so he doesn't want to eat? - just take it away and get on with eating yours.

Who spat in your pasta?