Come and share your toddler's most unreasonable demands

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My dd is an expert at it.

Whilst at the zoo yesterday " Mummy I want to feed the tigers" followed by a mild tantrun when I told her she couldn't "But I want to!"

Most demands are made when I'm in the midlle of something such as cooking dinner, washing up etc. Without fail she asks to go to the loo when there is something that needs to come out of the oven.

DS: "Mummy - sing this song": DS demonstrates.

I sing.

DS: "No mummy, you can't sing it properly unless your me!"

DS: "Mummy, Sing this song!"

AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGG

While wlaking down the high street:
DD: Make it rain Mummy
Me: The sun is shining. I don't think there will be any rain.
DD: I want to use my umbrella. MAKE IT RAIN NOW

Very strange looks from passers by as DD continued to wail that she wanted rain.

My DD had the screaming ab dabs the other day when we arrived back at the house and she wanted to go inside but did not want me to put the key in the lock. Not many ways around that one...

"I want to go in the sea, but I don't want there to be any waves"

Pick dd2 up from nursery. She has a full on tantrum as I put her in her carseat. Drive home while she screams " not in my seat" .
I pull ito the drive and go to get her out
dd2 "No get out" and she fights to stay in her seat.

Saw the thread and thought straight away of broken banana's - glad I'm not the only one who has to deal with this

• for ds2's favourite meal as I get his normal plate out... 'not that plate. I want anuffer plate. Biggest plate in whole wide world. (complete with arms being flung around as big as possible to indicate the size of the plate he wanted).

"Mummy put baby Jessica back in your tummy"

Oh god broken bananas. Bending time and space are popular here - "Make it Thursday NOOOOOOOOOOW!" etc

Sure I'll think of more but my personal favourites off the top of my head are:

• on the motorway, in the middle lane, demanding that we hide from the other cars

• about 4 pm one afternoon, demanding that we'd had lunch somewhere other than where we'd actually had lunch (that one was very easy to deal with, I just agreed to everything she said )

She also gets upset if I don't have a proper answer to what bees are made of, why are whales, why is Tom the crocodile a crocodile, etc

We have struggles over writing. As soon as I write anything anywhere, 19 mo DD points to it and says 'picture!"
Me - You want to draw a picture?
DD - yeah! Picture!
Me - (duly producing paper and pencil) There you are then.
DD - Nonononono. (points to contract or other important/ work-related document I have the temerity to write on) THAT picture!
Me (pointing to paper and pencil) You can draw a picture on here, I'm writing just now. Why don't you draw me a spider?
DD - Not this picture. THAT picture!
Me - this isn't a picture, this is something I'm writing for work.
DD - THAT picture!
Etc, until tantrum is thrown when I put the document in my briefcase/ a file.
Sigh...

Stupidly I showed ds2 advent calendar last night. Make it December Noooowwwwwwww! Ds1 gave ds2 a banana and broke it for him this morning = all hell broke loose

'Want to reach the sky'

'No darling, the sky's too high'

'A ladder. A LADDER!!!! WANT TO REACH THE SKY!!!!!!!!'

"we never climb on the window ledge. You might fall out through the window and really really hurt yourself or even die" (we live in a flat!)

"but mummy I want play dying!"

Ds1 aged 4 wrote his letter to santa today. One of the things he would like is 'some butterflies' so he can run around the room with a net tring to catch them... Hmmmm.

In the supermarket today..

DD2 - what's this, mummy? what's this mummy?

Me - it's a cake for Christmas, please don't poke it, people will be buying them

DD2 - what's this lumps?

Me (exasperated, it was a particularly trying supermarket visit this morning) - they are nuts, I'm going to have to buy this now because you've stuck your finger in it...

DD2 - Fine!! I don't like Christmas, I don't want it - pack it up and take it away...

Me - Okaaaay

"Mummy when we go to Aunty Jo's wedding, I don't want to be in your tummy like last time"

That I can do!

Aha, fab idea smalltownshame!!! I didn't know that existed, thanks!

DD1 (at age 3) "I want to meet Baby Jesus"

DD2 age 3 when asked what she wants (after tugging at my leg and whining incoherently) - 'I want everything that I want' - a handy catchall really - I am almost sorry that she can't 'have it all'

DS age 2 pointing at my feet 'Mummy - slippers on now'

Me: ok DS i will put my slippers on

DS: 'daddy - slippers on now'

DH: ok DS i will put my slippers on

Me and DH: DS you put your slippers on please

DS: No

oh ok

ilikeyoursleeves - buy him the Elefun game!!

DD (2) has started shouting when DH or I try to change her nappy/get her dressed/bath her: "That's my leg! Leave my body ALONE!"

Ds had the biggest tantrum he has ever had because his action man had one purple and one green arm. He was apoplectic with rage.

Dd (14m) regularly has tantrums because she wants to feed herself BUT she is also a greedy bugger and she can never quite manage to get enough in to satisfy her appetite so she has a scream and a growl and bangs her fists and then eventually deigns to let us help her.