Weirdest reason for a toddler tantrum?

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My dd who's almost 2 has started crying and having a melt down every time I throw her dirty nappy in the bin ..I'm at a loss to understand the weird nappy related attachment she seems to have developed over the last few days?
Anyone else's little ones have an odd reason for a tantrum?

Today:
Because DH was giving me a big cuddle.
Because DH gave him a cuddle
Because he was not allowed to eat the cats' Dreamies
Because the snail shell he picked up had a snail in it
Because the water in his paddling pool was wet
Because he was tired and wanted to go to bed
Because DH took him up to bed and he wanted DH to sleep in his cot too

RE the puppy, baby gate it into one room until trained. Much easier

Today , in Carluccio's for a treat she'd already had a chocolate bug & glass of milk, I had a latte.

"I want a babyccinooooooooooooooooo!'

I had to take her out to talk her down and hide my MC 'heard in Waitrose' my child is utterly spoilt style embaressment...

DS once had a tantrum because I wouldn't make the moon come out.
Lovely to think he thought I had so much power though

Because I named her new shoes for school. She's EIGHT FFS.

Because he wanted to hold the giant housespider that DH and I were terrified of and trying to get into a glass so we could put it outside. It was huuuge!

This is it in the bath. Before it pulled its legs in a bit, we couldn't get a glass over it, it was so big. Eventually, glass over it and large very firm piece of card slid underneath it and I took it outside- followed by DS with his hand out shouting 'meee mummy' and DH standing well back incase it escaped.

It doesn't look that big but it was 4 inches I reckon.

DD1 told DD2 that she (DD2) was deaf.

DD2. obviously & correctly, denied it.

DD1 had a 3 day meltdown; 25 years later, she is a solicitor specialisingin Human Rights. Can't quite identify where the switch occurred...

Today...

23 month old arguing with self in full length mirror, whilst holding two cars and telling his reflection "mine cars".."no mine cars"..."NO MINE CARS". Ended up in tears and the cars being thrown.

Standing infront of 2 children on the swings and roaring like a dinosaur to scare them off the swings. When this didn't work, screaming and shrieking "mine swing".

Seeing a ball on the TV, and screaming "mine ball". I told him that it wasn't his ball as it was on the telly, which provoked more screaming, and him trying to pull the TV over.

There was one because I hadn't held DD2's hand while we walked down the stairs, several because I made the terrible mistake of pulling apart the satsuma I had peeled for her ... oh and the broken crackers, what a drama... and because I couldn't understand which knickers she wanted and gave her the wrong ones... because I wouldn't let her risk her life swimming in a rough sea at age 3 ...
These are funny but I am SO glad my DC are a bit older now!

On the way home from nursery because she wanted to go to the supermarket and "look at the peeeeaaaaaaaasssss". Yes, frozen peas. We didn't go. Mean mummy.

Mine (4 and 2) do excellent joint tantrums in the car, talking about what they can see out of their window. It always start innocently enough..

DD: I can see trees on my side
DS: Houses on my side!
DS: Everything is on my side!
DD: No, nothing is on your side!
DS (tearful): Mama, says there's nothing on my side.
Me: Uh, you both having things on your side
Both: NO! Nothing is on your side, everything is on my side!
Continued for the rest of the journey...

Also DD gets very cross if I park so that she is on the 'pavement side'. She wants to be on the 'street side', as I always get the 'streetside' child out first.

Oh yes that reminds me of a good one. Poor DS was really really upset when my mum bought him a little dolls house bedroom set and he wanted to sit on the tiny chair. Proper howls of outrage! We had to hide it for a few weeks.

My DM & DF (I'm 45) enjoy telling my DC about my tantrum to end all tantrums which occurred on a ferry crossing Hong Kong harbour - apparently they wouldn't let me go under the guard rails (how unreasonable). My DC love hearing this story and have head it many times, how a whole boat full of horrified Chinese people watched a white, very blonde 2 yr old lying on her back screaming with her very young clueless inexperienced parents - behaviour expectations must have been very different in the 70's.

Because she couldn't remove her leg, like Daddy.

To be fair, DH used to remove his prosthetic leg and then nod to the DDs (he did it to both of them at some time or other) to urge them to try themselves. Then they'd pull on their leg and fail to be able to remove it. DD1 thought it perplexing. DD2 cried! Not helped by the fact that he'd then tell them they had 'the wrong type of leg'.

My late Dad (bless him) maintains that he had 3 daughters and that none of us ever had a temper tantrum.

I can only think that he must have worked loooong hours or been absolutely oblivious as there's no way he had three children who never stropped!

Because I opened the banana she asked me to open

Mine once wanted me to cut off his two middle fingers to prevent him from accidentally making a rude hand sign. Literally flipped when I refused.

My son screamed at me for 10 mins today as I told him he couldnt such the end of the hoover and shouldn't trey to lick peoples feet...

And my daughter kicked off because she wanted 'purple coke' and I had no fucking idea what that was. I offered up a variety of drinks which were wrong..and eventually discovered purple coke is water...

He didn't want cooked toast. So bread then? Nope.

It's Friday.
He wants it to be Tuesday.

Sigh.

His banana broke and I couldn't fix it.

Hopefully the final one for the day, he wanted milk in a cup. I presented milk in a cup. Meltdown. By cup he meant 'bottlecup' which also means bottle. I don't understand him at all.