PARENTS OF TODDLERS - what have your children been tantrumming about so far this morning?

[theSuburbanDryad]

So far we've had one minor meltdown because I wouldn't let him eat the wipes. One minor meltdown because I wouldn't let him play with my phone (he has his own that he can play with - a replica one, like they have in phone shops - but that wasn't good enough) but today's major meltdown was because I wouldn't let him get into the fridge.

I mean, just, WTF?!?!?!?!

Both of mine had a joint tanty over who was allowed to carry the package the postman had brought up the stairs.

Minor one because I had the audacity to go into her room to say good morning, rather than going directly downstairs to get her milk whilst Daddy got her up (even though she had been shouting, "Muuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmyyyyyyy" at the top of her voice.

Minor one because she wanted me to pick her up, so I did, then she did that toddler melt off my lap whilst crying until she was on the floor. She then repeated several times.

She's now back in bed and asleep.

Idris

my ds3 2 and a half, wanted lemonade on his cereal (he has never even had lemonade - it is only in the fridge as we have had some upset tummies this week!)

he wanted to feed the cat, but dd1 had already done it

he wanted to sit on a booster seat instead of his carseat, and went rigid when I tried to strap him in, then told me he needed a wee...

didn't want dh to go back to work after breakfast (dh is a dairy farmer so pops in for breakfast)

Not wanting his bum wiped (resulting in poo everywhere)
Not wanting to share his favourite dinosaur with DS1 (funnily enough they both love this particular one, despite have millions of others )
Not getting into the car after dropping DS1 off

Actually, it's been a pretty good morning, fairly tantrum free, must be saving it up for a humdinger this pm

And DS, "need a wee Mummy!" ok, come on, up stairs. "NO!!! I want to do a wee on the grass!!!" Ok, fine,lets go outside, and then, mid wee "NO!!! I'm a BIG boy! I do wee toilet!" cue DS grabbing willy in an attempt to stop the flow, and spraying wee everywhere whilst screaming "Big boy! I'm a BIG boy!!!"

Generally speaking, he is not nearly as bad as dd was though, and tends to moan more than tanty. "But I liiiike to mummy, I do liiiike to!" when he doesn't get what he wants.

Springer - I'm going with option 2.

My child is, in fact, Satan. He certainly was last night

YOU were being the satanic mother from hell last night though!

I still don't understand he shouting at a toddler to go to sleep is actually going to help him go to sleep...

Ha! I'm still here!

wants to wear summer dress look out the window - it may be July but that does not make it summer.

Were you going to ask the people on here if they'd heard about Candlejack?

If was pretty weird, everyone who talks about him seems to disa

Feel like a weight has been taken off my shoulders reading this thread! This morning ds woke up in fab mood, really happy, then........ when I suggested taking off his dirty nappy all hell broke loose, full scale throwing himself on floor, etc....

then..........

• didn't want to sit in highchair but on my lap to have breakfast
• wanted to climb on the dog
• not being allowed to open freezer
• wanted to walk and not go in his pushchair when taking dog out

He is now however safely installed at his CM where he is a model child and never cries, sleeps like an angel and eats everything put in front of him without complaint. Sometimes I just want to leave him there permanently!

oh, forgot last night - major wail because it was daddy's turn to read stories and he wanted mummy. Didn't hear either of us saying "that's fine mummy can do it". In the end I said he could read by himself if he wanted to just to distract him. Hands on hips, old fashioned look and "well THAT'S no good to me, is it?"

Kitbit - ds has just started shrugging at us. Tis quite comical in a bit of an annoying way.

"Do you want some banana?"

(offer banana)
(banana snatched and devoured with lightening speed)

I thought 18 months was supposed to be the cute age where they made up for the terrible twos??

at shrugging!

mine refused to have a dirty nappy changed, then wailed as I tried to put a clean t-shirt on him. Compromised by putting on new t shirt then putting old one on top of it. [hmmm]

Mine is also pre-verbal, and the only sign he knows is for milk. So, he woke up and did the milk sign fervently. I gave him some boob. When he'd been on boob the for fifteen minutes, cue tantrum because I had to get up and get into the shower to get ready for work.

Whilst in the shower I could hear a tantrum resulting from my mum trying to get him dressed.

Then he was pounding on the door saying "mama, mama", and she told me that he was making the milk sign when he wasn't pounding.

I open the door, and he has a tantrum because I won't pick him up. Then I pick him up and he tries to get my boob into his mouth by pulling and contorting himself until it's there. Then he has a tantrum because I try to sit down to get more comfortable.

This goes on until I get my damn shirt on. I am going to start keeping one on 24/7.

He's 15mo. Someone please tell me the boob-all-of-the-time phase will end soon.

Please?

Awwww...

Sorry RoRo. I think that's really cute. FWIW my ds has started to lose interest in his milkies, but we're not sure if that's his age or because i'm pg.

You know, it was cute until I started feeling like a failure because he can't have my boobs in his mouth all day long (I do actually have to work). So we settle for just about the entire time I am home in the morning, evening and all night long.

My nipples look like Rudolf's Red Nose. Seriously.

How old is your DS again? If pregnancy is the only solution I think I'm going to run away.

Not really.

Come to think of it...I am on my period, which I've heard some people say makes the milk taste different and puts some babies off. Not mine!

RoRo - my ds is 18 months, and started going off milkies All The Time at about 15 months (i think?)

To be fair - when he was 12-14 months he was extremely ill first with bronchialitis and then with a vomiting bug, and bm was about the only thing he would keep down. And I was so worried about the amount of weight he'd lost i just kept trying to feed him as much as possible. He's fine now though

Have you tried distracting him with water or juice? Or a biscuit? What does he do when you're at work?

Like many other toddlers on this thread, when I am at work he is the picture of "good boy." Completely well-adjusted, playing, chatting, eating normally...when I am at home, he will accept no substitute to boob, more so in the morning I think because he knows I am leaving for work soon and he'll have to go all day without them. He takes bm out of a bottle when he wakes up from his nap, and water from a sippy cup. He doesn't like juice.

Sometimes he'll be okay if I say "milkies are asleep now" at night or in the morning, or "milkies are going to work now". Most of the time, though, he won't take "no" for an answer.

I know what you mean about the saving grace of milkies when the LOs are ill. I am so happy to hear yours is feeling better, what a rough time that must have been!

Sorry for the thread hijack!

The banana had brown bits on it and I wouldn't give him a different one!

RoRo - Do you think that maybe he wants to nurse all the time as a way to reconnect when you're not at work? Do you work full time?

Have you posted on the breastfeeding topic about this? Not because I mind about you hijacking but i think you might get more help.

I work "part-time" as a solicitor, which means M-F, 9-5. I think he is trying to reconnect with me, and I probably should go post on the breastfeeding thread...yes, I think I will.

Thanks!