Illogical reasons for tantrums in toddlers. Share with me please.

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Out for a walk today. My ds threw an absolute wobbler because the flock of seagulls on the seafront had the sheer audacity to fly off when he chased them.

He then proceeded to fill the front of his sandals with sand, looked up at me as if I was responsible for this horrendous crime screaming at the top of his voice "Mummygetitout'! Mummygetitout!"

was not sure wether to piss myself with laughter or be embarrased.

DS2 has just gone into major meltdown because we won't let him sit on the kitchen worktop and play with knives. I am sooo sooo mean!

DD not given to tantrums thank god, so I do usually laugh when they happen.

One that sticks in mind was when dp was sitting in the wrong chair!

I am v. lucky as we only have the occasional screaming session, not the full 45 mins that some of them manage, although lunch got noisy last week with full snot leakage because ds's bread had broken in half! It wasn't me as I do now know not to slice things without permission!

Today I wouldn't let DS eat butter straight out of the packet with his hands. I am a Bad Mother and he let me know it.

Because i wouldn't give him my hiccups!

platesmasher

Ds is only just grasping that he can't have things that he sees in a book or magazine or that we can't magically go to the beach on the television (if only).

He couldn't be fobbed off with any 'let's imagine' crap either!

DD (2.3) had one today:

DD - I have grey eyes
Me - Yes, lovely grey eyes
DD - No, not lovely. GREY.
Me - Eyes can be lovely and grey at the same time
DD - NO THEY CAAAAAAAAAAN'T! ARE GREEEEYYYYY! NOT LOVELYYYYYYYYYY! JUST GREEEYYYYY!

ds2 23m:

DS2: Fissy (fish)
Me: no darling its a horse
DS2: no woo woof
me: No it really is a horse
DS2: Nanna fissy yeah nanna fissy nanna fissyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

I just left him believing it was a fissy

I read the first five pages of this while trying to block out 2yo DS's tantrum.

I can't remember (frankly they're blurring into one ghastly cycle of endless recrimination at the moment) if it was the one which started because I was carrying his toy trains to the living room (after he'd HANDED THEM TO ME not one minute before) or the one where he'd got frustrated and thrown a couple of them (the iron clad rule being that if he does, I Take Them Away for a bit. He knows this. He tells me it'll happen as he throws them).

Cue ten mins screaming and sobbing, which ended when he got a book out of his book basket and exclaimed cheerfully 'Oooh, Charlie Lola'.

I am a limp rag. Pass the gin.

I had to laugh at all of these - when mine were 5, 3 and 18mnths they ganged up on me in the back of the car weeping and wailing because I wouldn't let them have a reindeer for Christmas (they had seen a "playdays" where somebody had reindeer in their back garden, but their back garden was a park in the wilds of Scotland) this went on for a whole 30 mins, and was very wearing.

This week DD has stropped because

There wasn't any bananas left for DS's breakfast. Not her breakfast, the baby's.

Because I picked up the dog shit out of the garden 'where dog poo mama? where's it gone? dog poo, wheeeerrree arrrrre yoooouuu?'

Because we had to come home from playgroup

Because I fastened her carseat straps before the baby's.

Best strop of the week -
DD, (2.4)-AArgh, (wailing, crying)

I've given it (her ice cream cone) to Bertie(our dog), arrggh she's eaten it!.

Yes.

Yesterday my 4 year old started to weep. The reason? In case I decided to use all her pocket money to buy an enormous drill so we could prospect for oil.

Funnily enough it wasn't something I had considered.

herbie.... oh no, she'll regret telling you when you realise its a good idea!

When playing computer games and 2 yr old DS asks for help:

if I click the mouse to help he throws a wobbly.

He also throws a wobbly when I don't help

... help !

taking a mouthful of food from my plate(not his) , that he thinks he may like.

DD has only just started having major tanrums (3.3yr), but now she has them alot.

These are the most recent ones;
because I put milk on her weetabix
because I wouldn't buy her a lime green dustpan and brush
Because she I wouldn't give her DH razor ans shaving foam so she could have a shave in the bath.

I am sure I have more to add once they come back to me!!

Illogical reasons for tantrums from a 4.8, hmmm

because I said the number first when we played bingo........I was the bingo caller

because little boy at yesterdays party bounced higher than ds did on the bouncy castle

because the ballon 'alien' the magician made at the party 7wks ago has now deflated and looks like a popular - but unused - form of contraception

because he can........

Roll on September and full time education - good luck Mrs Reception Teacher - he's all yours then

DH made beans on toast for DS yesterday. Unfortunately I was out or I would have warned him not to put the beans on the toast. Screaming may have occurred .

Standing at the toilet for a pee at friend's house, desparate to get back to train toys before another child gets them:

DS (3.4) - Stop pee
Me: eh?
DS: STOP PEEEEEE
Me: eh.....?
DS: STOP PEE STOP PEE
Me: Eh, darling DS, only you can finish your pee, not me....sorry. Shouting at me to stop peeing doesn't work
DS: Make work in my body
Me: er, ok.....

Meanwhile, pee still flows out as I hold his winkle over the bowl....

DH and I just had an idyllic overnight stay in a romantic hotel paid for by my in-laws for my 40th birthday-sheer bliss!!

Missed dd (3.10) so scoured quaint gift shops and bought an adorable pretty, traditional rag dolly dressed in customary twee flowery dress with pigtails and ribbons and cute rosy cheeks - utterly adorable.

Gave said dolly to dd on our return home - dd duly smitten with dolly and happily took her to bed...............however, they must have fell out overnight as i was awoken next morning with screams and howls and the instruction to "take this dolly back to the shop and get me a Barbie"!!! Said tantrum escalated beyond belief when I refused and set about trying to teach dd the values of being grateful for what we recieve!

Blimey - is this the age for being a 'total Madam'? God help me!!!!

Dear boyfriend's little son had a tantrum today because boyfriend couldn't stop the wind at the beach.

These are hilarious, must send dp the link. When he gets cross, our two year old DS1 says "Need to go to (CM's name)" and says "Daddy needs to go to work now" - usually at teatime/bedtime/weekends - thankfully dp normally works very reasonable hours at the moment - I don't know how I'll manage if he has to return to shiftwork, as our crazy toddler has a baby brother.

mmep monkey smoothies my 3 year old is addicted too

Excellent thread!

DS (2.3) this morning:

Sitting in trolley in supermarket, objected to putting the shopping on the conveyor belt. Then sat in trolley muttering 'Boy want to hit lady' again and again while the lady on the checkout pretended not to notice. When I told him that subsequent duck feeding trip was dependent on being a good boy, he changed tack: 'Boy want to stroke lady. Boy want to kiss lady. Boy want to kiss lady AGAIN.'

ha ha - these are great.

DD, 20 months, tears her bib off whenever she sits at the table. Then refuses to eat until it's back on. Then off, then on, then off

Result: meltdown and struggling to get out of chair, followed by meltdown at the prospect of no dinner when taken out of chair

followed by bib meltdown

Where, please, is the logic?