Toddler AIBU

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What would your toddler ask? Here’s what’s going through 14-month-old DS’s mind today:

I didn’t have my milk the second I was awake.
My mum won’t let me climb the stairs unsupervised.
My mum won’t let me climb into the tumble dryer.
I knocked two plants over and was moved away from them.
I didn’t have a sandwich.
I was given a sandwich.
My rainmaker toy (which I usually love) made the noise it usually does.
I handed my mum a teddy bear and she cuddled it.
I wanted my dummy.
I threw my dummy on the floor.
AIBU or is my mum?

Mummy is def BU!!!

I watched a child no older than 3 lose their mind because mum wouldn’t let them run into the middle of a busy a road Yesterday

Your mum is obviously being unreasonable. It’s a question of disciplining your mum to your ways and teaching her to anticipate your every demand as they pop in to your head.

We’d recommend throwing as much around the place as you can manage, a nice long crying fit lasting a good couple of hours at least (or for as long as you can manage, bonus points if you can get to the point of not breathing multiple times) and spend the rest of the day whimpering and sulking. As you’re rather young still, have a brief nap to recharge your batteries, but make sure it’s a restless one so your mum doesn’t have a chance to relax and prepare for the battle to come that is bedtime. Come bedtime, repeat the above steps.

Sure, it won’t teach her how to respond to your needs, but it’ll get her thinking of ways to do so and avoid getting in to this sort of situation again.

You got this boy.

With love,

Muchtootired’s DTs, age 3.5.

Watched my DGC yesterday trying to climb into the washing machine.

Toddler is definitely being unreasonable, but it is in the job description, after all!

Mine was distraught because there wasn't a goat. Not that I was expecting one to be in the living room but clearly DS was.

@MuchTooTired

Your mum is obviously being unreasonable. It’s a question of disciplining your mum to your ways and teaching her to anticipate your every demand as they pop in to your head.

We’d recommend throwing as much around the place as you can manage, a nice long crying fit lasting a good couple of hours at least (or for as long as you can manage, bonus points if you can get to the point of not breathing multiple times) and spend the rest of the day whimpering and sulking. As you’re rather young still, have a brief nap to recharge your batteries, but make sure it’s a restless one so your mum doesn’t have a chance to relax and prepare for the battle to come that is bedtime. Come bedtime, repeat the above steps.

Sure, it won’t teach her how to respond to your needs, but it’ll get her thinking of ways to do so and avoid getting in to this sort of situation again.

You got this boy.

With love,

Muchtootired’s DTs, age 3.5.

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Haha these comments have definitely cheered me up. Time to admit I was clearly BU and DS was WNBU all along.