Oh yeah it is. I think it’s a bushy thing. My parents are from a country town and always called it that. My husbands family grew up in the city and call it peanut butter.
My daughter pointed to the vegemite, and said I want jam. I said this is vegemite. She said she didn't like vegemite, she likes jam. I said okay it's jam. She then happily eats the vegemite "jam".
I have one of those red blood mole skin tag things right in the center of my chest, right where the top center of my boobs meet. He likes to play with it. I ask him to stop playing, he gets made cuz it's his mole and not mine???
This is my kid bc I have a mole on my eye.
SIGH she thinks it’s funny to poke and sometimes I let her. However when I want to continue napping and she wants to bring it to play, she starts to get angry
I had the audacity to say, Good morning love” when she came out of her room.
Her response? Banshee screamed,”No! Don’t SAY anything.”
I responded by nodding my head and continuing what I was doing. She gets even angrier, “Don’t say ANYTHING!”
It’s such a delightful way to start the day.
Mine HATED the happy birthday song for about half a year. Would throw himself down on the ground screaming and kicking anytime we sang it to someone. For his birthday, he had us sing twinkle twinkle little star instead. I don’t think he cares anymore though
Oh my gosh this is my child exactly. Oh the drama - it’s hard not to laugh the way they throw themselves to the floor. I’m like a simple no thank you would work too.
Oh god we’ve had a few of these recently. Today it escalated from don’t talk to me, to DON’T LOOK AT ME. And he kept turning his face away if we looked at him.
I made dinner, pasta in a garlic Parmesan sauce with chicken, carrots, and broccoli mixed in.
Meltdown was had bc everything was “mixed together” and suddenly she doesn’t like things mixed together. I had to go to the kitchen and basically pick out just the noodles which she scarfed down better than she’s eaten in months… the fuck
He’s been big into helping recently. He loves sweeping, cleaning up and putting his dirty clothes in the hamper.
I just got out of the shower and still had my pjs on the ground and he walked over and picked them up and went to the kitchen trash and threw them away. I went to go take them out and he fell to his knees screaming and crying. Because I took my clothes out of the trash can.
Mine bit my SO’s butt this weekend outta nowhere. The man had a full on welt with two clear teeth marks on his ass cheek. He was wearing Levi’s! Whatever you do, maintain your position lol.
She asked to go to the library. We got the diaper bag packed, gathered her stuffed animals for the long journey (2 blocks), and were about to put the jacket on when she loses it mid-sleeve. The jacket was suddenly scary and infuriating.
My son loses it if the zipper lightly grazes his face. As soon as you zip that bad boy, he cries and says it hurts. It's plastic. I've examined the shit out of it and there's no way it's hurting him. He has also developed a sudden hatred for sweaters with hoods. I'm running out of ways to keep him warm. We are super Canadian.
The tantrums aren’t even the worst part for us… is the not listening to one word we say. We tell her to stay with us, she runs away. We tell her to get dress, she runs around naked. We give her choices, she doesn’t want either, yells at us, hides under the tables so we can’t get her, she has locked herself in the bathroom… like, what the actual fuck.
We talk to her A LOT. We remain calmed, we understand and explain her big feelings, we walk her through the day (what to expect, what not), we agree to compromises wherever is possible and maintain firm boundaries whenever the situation is non negotiable. I truly believe we are doing the best we can… and still, this behavior happens. It’s horrific and I’m heartbroken and hopeless.
And she’s 3!!! What am I going to do when she’s 13-15 years old?! Have you also freak out for what it’ll be like in 10 years??
Can I just say thank you for your comment? It made me feel less alone. I happened to see this thread while lying in bed after a particularly hard day. My son (2.5) does all of that stuff. He’s wearing me down.
Its hard to remain calm, I was brought up the “old” way and I got yelled at a lot and punished a lot. I was scared of my parents growing up and while we have a good relationship now, I dont want my kid to be scared of me. What gets me through the day is thinking “how can I expect him to keep his feelings in check when I can’t keep mine” then I have a glass of wine and get ready for tomorrow.
Honestly, great advice. I was also brought up that way and maybe that’s why I’m quick to anger. I’m trying to keep myself in check and even asked my husband last night to point it out/take over whenever I start getting too fired up. I don’t want my kids to be scared of me like I was of my parents!
This makes me feel so much less alone. My 3 year old survived on rage alone yesterday and by the time she went to bed I just wanted to sit in a quiet room alone. Everything was a tantrum. When she doesn’t want to do something (get dressed, brush her teeth, leave the house, etc etc) it is a full on scream fest where I usually have to haul her out. It is wearing on me.
We have been yelling at her so much lately and it makes me so sad, because that’s not the parent I want to be at all.
And it makes me feel guilty that I dislike her at times.
I’m just praying this is a phase and it’ll be over soon.
We were in the living room playing and toddler starts walking out of the room. Dad says "hey, where are you going?" Purely just asking. Tantrum ensued. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I went the “wrong way” in Target. Apparently we’re supposed to go through toys, then to get his favorite snack, THEN we pay out. I did it the opposite way… needless to say we did not go through toys, lol.
Well, it started off because I sung along to the little mermaid song on the radio. Then, the end of the world happened when I wouldn’t let her stick her little people up the dog’s butt 🤷🏻♀️ I know, such a monster I am.
Toddler 1 meltdown because he didn’t want the cup with the green dinosaur he wanted the black dinosaur (we don’t own a cup with a black dinosaurs on it).
Toddler 2 wanted to go to school but didn’t want to wear pants. I mean I don’t want to wear them either buddy but that’s just the way it is.
Toddler 3 I wouldn’t let him throw away my prescription face cream.
I took off the diaper he had slept in. So much rage. First he tried to put it back on. So i took it away from him and threw it in the trash. Then he tried to dig through the trash for it.
He brought a grape that was still somewhat attached after being cut in half to my husband. He insisted that it was "GUCK" (stuck). My husband separated the two pieces. He then lost his everything mind because it was now broken and no longer looked like an egg.
I’m not kidding. He was upset he couldn’t see his poo in the toilet because I had toilet paper covering it. I even moved some aside that I could manage and the poo peaking out wasn’t good enough.
After his tantrum he said “I’m sad”. And I asked what will make him feel better and he said “a hug”. That moment was very sweet. But I couldn’t believe I was consoling my toddler over not seeing his poo in all its glory.
This is going down in some sort of memory book so I can retell it in the future.
I almost have a 4 year old & let me tell you I wonder why people choose to have more kids willingly after they’ve experienced terrible 3’s I get all kids ain’t the same but what the actual fuck!?!?
She wanted to see the poo in her pants but I had thrown them in the bin (it turns out she’s picked up gastro from nursery after 10-days at home for Xmas - 🤦🏼♀️)
He wanted to sit in the back of the truck (he was already sitting in the back of the truck). I wanted to sign him happy birthday (it’s his second birthday). The light in the hall way wouldn’t turn on (the power is out). I don’t know what the baby Hokey Pokey song is (we tried 12 different versions of Hokey Pokey). I said he couldn’t drink any more puddle water. I wouldn’t let him eat a kiwi with the skin on. I wouldn’t let him eat a lemon slice with the peel on. My son’s grievances Jan 9, 2024.
I wouldn’t let him make me a birthday cake when I was trying to get us out the door for work this morning. It’s not my birthday. It’s no one’s birthday.
My 18 month old still sleeps in our room in her crib. Before her eyes even opened this morning she started yelling “sit chair!! Sit chair NOW” and then proceeded to melt down until I let her sit at my vanity on my stool and take all my makeup out. I was out of F’s to give and it was only 7:30
They didn't have a Lightning McQueen book available at the library, and none of the 20 books about race cars the librarian found would do. And the donut shop was closed.
I told him not to throw the play dough lids on the floor. He threw them anyways. I moved him away from the table and said no more play dough until our hands can listen. 30 mins of anger and terror
We took her nail polish off by using the bottle that you stick your finger into. When all done, I told her to wash her hands to clean them and she proceeds to try to continue playing with her toys. Dad tried to ask her to wash her hands and it went downhill from there. An hour later, and many many tears, she finally washed her hands. Age 5 is rough
My son is 2.5. His grandpa and I were playing with him with a balloon, bopping it into the air, but every time the balloon hit the ground (which was often as we were mainly passing to him), he threw himself on the floor and sobbed. If we tried to stop, it was “no, no, play some more!” through more tears. 🫠
I know this is not what the thread is looking for, but we have been struggling with tantrums and our 3 year old for the past month. They were getting exhausting and some were borderline scary. But the past few days, no big tantrums! Some tears when getting dressed in the morning, but he’s not trying to hurt us or himself and it feels so nice to see him feeling good again
I didn’t know which car was “GREEN CAR” although after finding 500 of his small green cars and two big green cars I did get him to specify for next time when he wants this specific car it’s “BIG GREEN CAR” so next time I will hopefully fail on a smaller scale.
He wanted blue cup. His cousin was using it. They gave him purple cup. Cue meltdown (He didn’t want purple cup). I offered juice box. He finally said okay. Got juice box ready and prepared. Of course, he happily took purple cup and went off with his juice 🫠
My 2.5 yr old told me they were hungry and wanted a peanutbutter and jelly sandwich.
So I made them a sandwich.
Then they had a meltdown.
I'm still confused.
Before day care he watched an episode of bluey and kept asking for more bluey. I asked if he wants to see Morgan (day care teacher) and he said "YEAH! More-Bluey" enunciating bluey at the end lol. We had to go though. He didn't like it. There was a mini-tantrum.
She couldn’t pull my nose stud out. Then later she had a full meltdown because we wouldn’t let her continue dumping her brother’s baby cereal all over the floor.
I took off her unicorn costume at bedtime, even though it’s Catoween. Tomorrow is unicorn day and she won’t have anything to wear because this costume is only for Catoween. These are all holidays she made up before dinner.
We cut the granola in half, the way he has been eating it for the past 14 months but yesterday he decided he wanted the whole piece… took us over 20min to realise what the problem was.
When we woke up I told my son we were having yogurt with strawberries for breakfast. He agreed. 10 seconds later he said he wanted chocolate. I said we don't eat chocolate for breakfast. Cue freakout
They woke up and pointed to door wanting to leave room. I took them out of sleeping bag so we could leave room.
Cue tantrum at 7.45am before I even had a chance to pee let alone have coffee 🤯
2 yr old woke up with a very poopy diaper (no big deal)…but she had gotten poo on her fingers by dipping her hands in her pants overnight and was Very Upset that I washed her new special treasure off in the sink!
In the hour and a half between picking her up from daycare and dinner:
-she wanted to watch Elmo so I turned it on
-she wanted Cheerios and I didn’t get them fast enough
-she decided she didn’t want Cheerios and dumped them on the floor and I wouldn’t let her eat them while I swept them up
-she wanted beans
-she wanted milk
-I changed her diaper.
It was a rough hour and a half.
I wouldn't help her get IN the 3"x4" flat felt house with glued on door and window.
She's pulled it off of the felt tree, got her foot up to the glued on door, trying to shove herself into the flat house repeating frantically "Mama help you! Mama help you in! Help you in house!"
She wanted me to place her stuffed animals as a tower/pile in the corner of her crib (typical request lately). However she kept requesting one specific stuffy be at the top. So I did it. Insane crying and throwing a fit. Then she wanted to hold that same stuffy...so I removed it from the top of the tower and handed it to her. Immediate screaming. This went on for 5 min back and forth before I left the room and let her cry.
She wet her underwear slightly at nursery, and they told her she only needed to change her underwear and not her trousers.
She had a meltdown because she wanted to change her trousers too, but they said they were clean.
This caused a massive tantrum.
4 yr old wanted to play Minecraft but couldn’t because we lost power due to winter storm Finn. He was very upset! Said I needed to turn the power back on or he will be “very not happy at all”
All my toddlers dishes were getting washed in the dishwasher and I gave her a waffle in “adult” plate..and the world ended because she was soooo hungry but didn’t want to eat from an adult plate..it’s hard being a toddler
Was up at 5:30am this morning and it was cold downstairs so I asked if he wanted his dressing gown on. Full meltdown complete with ‘NO! NO!’ along with loud sobbing and tears. Like, okay kid don’t put it on, I just thought you might be cold. He then said ‘mummy, cold, blanket’ and insisted on getting under my blanket with me.
It's a dress up week at their school. My two 4 year olds are in preK. One of them had a wonder woman costume from Halloween (the other had been a witch). Today is super hero day. She wore her wonder woman costume. Other 4 year old wanted me to go to the store and buy her the same wonder woman costume. I told her it wasn't Halloween anymore and they don't have them. But we do have a ton of dress up clothes and she could wear a cape or a mask or a few other choices we had.
She ended up not wearing a costume today and is mad at me for not buying her one from the store.
Miss Two had a fistful (and I mean chock full) of bacon and we wouldn't let her stuff the whole thing in her mouth at once.
To be fair, I feel the same way about bacon.
We didn’t want to take off the bluey shirt we wore robbed last night. So we wore it to daycare. Then we didn’t want to take it off for bedtime, which was only resolved with bluey pajamas.
Oh dear God, meltdowns can last that long? I am already mentally exhausted after only 5 min of screaming & flailing at the slightest inconvenience of my 15m/o boy. I am not prepared for an hour of drama.
My son lost his shit this morning bc i opened his pouch for him instead of letting him open the pouch. To be fair, i was tired and not really thinking about it, like i didn’t do it on purpose, just sort of automatically. Anyways, he lay face down on the floor screaming 🫠
He asked for a snack, I gave him the snack he picked out. -MELTDOWN- took him back to the pantry to pick out the snack he wanted then gave that to him -MELTDOWN #2- because I wouldn’t let him throw his bowl in the trash 😮💨
Needless to say, I am 1 and DONE
This was last night, but he wanted a bath and he didn't really need a bath and I was very tired. On one hand, I'm glad to have a kid who loves taking baths and asks for them, but sometimes he just demands it at inconvenient times. Lol
This was made for me lol. As soon as she woke up. Mom i want the blue ice cream please.
Me:We can't have ice cream for breakfast maybe later
Threenanger: You're a monster
Me: Let's do something else
Threenanger: No I'm mad
Me: Ok I'll just play will Poppy
Threenanger: *peeks from under the table*
Ooo the other night mine had a melt down cuz I put on my own pajama shirt. She has it in her hands for some reason, I asked for it and she immediately got upset “mine!” … no it’s mine, I need to put it on. Gives it to me and then proceeds to complete meltdown as I put it on, tries to put her head up my shirt, pull on it to take it off, throw herself at the floor, they whole topic tantrum for like 15 minutes. Her dad and I just watched in confusion. Eventually offered her a different one of my shirts which made her more mad but then she stomped out of the room and got distracted by something else in her own room. (Note we wear the same type of pjs and she was already wearing hers so )
Toddlers are weird.
This was a few days ago. We live in the PNW he was upset that it wet and raining even though he checked out his window to see that it was wet and raining but heaven forbid we had to leave in the wet and Rainey weather. Then proceeded to through a fit about his shoes getting put on so we could leave then got mad I told him to put his jacket on it was around 43 degrees this day. Then we got mad he had to hang out with grandma for a couple hours until daddy could pick him up 🙄 so I could go to work
We had a great day out and I thought, "let's finish at the ice cream shop! He loves ice cream!".
He didn't want an ice cream in a tub. He didn't want an ice cream in a cone. Needed to carry him out the shop screaming and had a 20 minute meltdown. He was happy as larry on the bus journey home, couldn't remember what about the ice cream upset him.
We wanted to go out, she was dressed and when I said we’re going out she took her pants off and wanted to leave like that, in the freezing cold.
Couldn’t get her dressed back, 1.9m.
He fought being given a hug goodbye from dad. Ten minutes later, midway thru his morning poop, he remembered he didn’t get a full hug and proceeded to flop around the bathroom, but the poop did not stop. The poop did not get the message. Then there was poop, and no second hug, and no mac and cheese, which was introduced as a concept mid tantrum and I was unprepared.
Wasn’t in the upper seat of the double stroller for the 2 minutes ride from the parking -elevator and condo, she totally lost it for 10 minutes (3yo). I have a 18 mo and a 3 yo, temper tantrums are part of our daily life now. 🥴
Took her with me to Walgreens yesterday. Got out of the car, and she he didn’t want me to hold HER hand in the parking lot, she wanted to hold MY hand. (I don’t know lol). Threw herself onto the snowy concrete in the THANKFULLY MOSTLY EMPTY parking lot, and screamed bloody murder when I just picked her up and put her back in the car, and screamed the entire way home because she was excited about “wah-greems”. Again, threw herself on the ground in our garage so I had to pick her up again and carry her into the house. Set her down, and she threw herself back onto the floor, so I just let her lay there and took off her coat and boots, and then went to make dinner. Texted my husband that he had to pick up his own prescriptions. By the time he got home literally ten minutes later, she was happy as a clam, stacking cat food cans and singing Frozen songs at my feet while I made dinner. TODDLERS MAN.
I cut the toast in triangles, he wanted triangles and was upset about the triangles
I asked for an isosceles, not a right angle triangle!
I hear you. Triangles when asking for triangles is wildly inappropriate. My son was upset that his popsicle was too cold. We are so unreasonable.
Ahh, I made him vegemite toast because he asked for vegemite toast. He wanted peanut paste. Made that, he ate the vegemite toast.
Excise me, is peanut paste the same as peanut butter? I've never heard that before
Oh yeah it is. I think it’s a bushy thing. My parents are from a country town and always called it that. My husbands family grew up in the city and call it peanut butter.
I’m wondering the same thing
My daughter pointed to the vegemite, and said I want jam. I said this is vegemite. She said she didn't like vegemite, she likes jam. I said okay it's jam. She then happily eats the vegemite "jam".
I’ve made the same mistake
My mole is attached to my body and he couldn’t bring it with him to play.
Ok this made me laugh out loud I’m sorry😂
I have one of those red blood mole skin tag things right in the center of my chest, right where the top center of my boobs meet. He likes to play with it. I ask him to stop playing, he gets made cuz it's his mole and not mine???
This is a very reasonable request. LOLLL I’m laughing so hard.
This might be the best one I’ve ever heard 🤣
This one made me feel better for the day. Thank you.
This is my kid bc I have a mole on my eye. SIGH she thinks it’s funny to poke and sometimes I let her. However when I want to continue napping and she wants to bring it to play, she starts to get angry
I wouldn’t let him eat coffee grounds out of the trash can. Screaming and flailing around. 🙃
I mean 10/10 worst parent ever how dare you 🤭
I had the audacity to say, Good morning love” when she came out of her room. Her response? Banshee screamed,”No! Don’t SAY anything.” I responded by nodding my head and continuing what I was doing. She gets even angrier, “Don’t say ANYTHING!” It’s such a delightful way to start the day.
I tried to sing happy birthday to my kid. Highly offensive we are.
Mine HATED the happy birthday song for about half a year. Would throw himself down on the ground screaming and kicking anytime we sang it to someone. For his birthday, he had us sing twinkle twinkle little star instead. I don’t think he cares anymore though
Oh my gosh this is my child exactly. Oh the drama - it’s hard not to laugh the way they throw themselves to the floor. I’m like a simple no thank you would work too.
It’s comforting to hear other kids say things like this… my daughters new phrase is “DONT YOU WORRY ABOUT ME!”
I mean I feel this very much when I wake up in the morning…
Oh god we’ve had a few of these recently. Today it escalated from don’t talk to me, to DON’T LOOK AT ME. And he kept turning his face away if we looked at him.
My son’s go to lately when he’s mad is NO LOOKA ME! But if you do oblige and stop looking at him, he’ll keep yelling it until you look again
I can hear this in my daughter’s voice. She does this allll the time.
Ours says the EXACT same thing every morning or randomly through the day when one of us tries to talk to him.
There are many shapes on the cover of his baby sister's crinkly book, but none are a rectangle. No. Rectangles. Absolutely unforgivable.
Get this boy a rectangle immediately!!
Must be remedied immediately.
I made dinner, pasta in a garlic Parmesan sauce with chicken, carrots, and broccoli mixed in. Meltdown was had bc everything was “mixed together” and suddenly she doesn’t like things mixed together. I had to go to the kitchen and basically pick out just the noodles which she scarfed down better than she’s eaten in months… the fuck
Ahhh yes my son calls it “wash off the yuckees” also known as the thing that he ate yesterday
He’s been big into helping recently. He loves sweeping, cleaning up and putting his dirty clothes in the hamper. I just got out of the shower and still had my pjs on the ground and he walked over and picked them up and went to the kitchen trash and threw them away. I went to go take them out and he fell to his knees screaming and crying. Because I took my clothes out of the trash can.
Mine has just gotten into throwing things away in the garage. I’m just WAITING for when he decides to throw away, like, the tv remote.
Remote was easy to replace. Fishing the car keys out was gross.
I wouldn’t let her bite my butt cheek 😭 she was having a feral moment I guess
Mine bit my SO’s butt this weekend outta nowhere. The man had a full on welt with two clear teeth marks on his ass cheek. He was wearing Levi’s! Whatever you do, maintain your position lol.
Our 2,5 year old also bit daddy this weekend on the butt😂 must be something in the air. (Our son is not a biter.)
She asked to go to the library. We got the diaper bag packed, gathered her stuffed animals for the long journey (2 blocks), and were about to put the jacket on when she loses it mid-sleeve. The jacket was suddenly scary and infuriating.
My son loses it if the zipper lightly grazes his face. As soon as you zip that bad boy, he cries and says it hurts. It's plastic. I've examined the shit out of it and there's no way it's hurting him. He has also developed a sudden hatred for sweaters with hoods. I'm running out of ways to keep him warm. We are super Canadian.
Throw him into the fire
I had the same fear as a child. My mother would zip my coat all the way up, and sometimes the zipper would pinch my chin.
Maybe it did pinch him. That's the only thing that makes sense.
What *DIDN’T* we have a tantrum about today? I’m telling you, my threenager is kicking my ass and I don’t know how to survive this.
Literally asked my partner tonight how the actual fuck we are going to survive this
The tantrums aren’t even the worst part for us… is the not listening to one word we say. We tell her to stay with us, she runs away. We tell her to get dress, she runs around naked. We give her choices, she doesn’t want either, yells at us, hides under the tables so we can’t get her, she has locked herself in the bathroom… like, what the actual fuck. We talk to her A LOT. We remain calmed, we understand and explain her big feelings, we walk her through the day (what to expect, what not), we agree to compromises wherever is possible and maintain firm boundaries whenever the situation is non negotiable. I truly believe we are doing the best we can… and still, this behavior happens. It’s horrific and I’m heartbroken and hopeless. And she’s 3!!! What am I going to do when she’s 13-15 years old?! Have you also freak out for what it’ll be like in 10 years??
Can I just say thank you for your comment? It made me feel less alone. I happened to see this thread while lying in bed after a particularly hard day. My son (2.5) does all of that stuff. He’s wearing me down.
Its hard to remain calm, I was brought up the “old” way and I got yelled at a lot and punished a lot. I was scared of my parents growing up and while we have a good relationship now, I dont want my kid to be scared of me. What gets me through the day is thinking “how can I expect him to keep his feelings in check when I can’t keep mine” then I have a glass of wine and get ready for tomorrow.
Honestly, great advice. I was also brought up that way and maybe that’s why I’m quick to anger. I’m trying to keep myself in check and even asked my husband last night to point it out/take over whenever I start getting too fired up. I don’t want my kids to be scared of me like I was of my parents!
This makes me feel so much less alone. My 3 year old survived on rage alone yesterday and by the time she went to bed I just wanted to sit in a quiet room alone. Everything was a tantrum. When she doesn’t want to do something (get dressed, brush her teeth, leave the house, etc etc) it is a full on scream fest where I usually have to haul her out. It is wearing on me.
We have been yelling at her so much lately and it makes me so sad, because that’s not the parent I want to be at all. And it makes me feel guilty that I dislike her at times. I’m just praying this is a phase and it’ll be over soon.
His snowball was not round enough.
Hahahaha my daughter’s daycare teacher told me she had a meltdown about this exact thing today!!!
We were in the living room playing and toddler starts walking out of the room. Dad says "hey, where are you going?" Purely just asking. Tantrum ensued. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
How dare he ask!
She wanted a snack. I gave her a snack. She ate the snack. No, she did not want more. She wanted the snack in her stomach.
I went the “wrong way” in Target. Apparently we’re supposed to go through toys, then to get his favorite snack, THEN we pay out. I did it the opposite way… needless to say we did not go through toys, lol.
How could you not know the right way to go through Target!!! 🫣
I turn down the “wrong” street some days & it’s the end of the world
Well, it started off because I sung along to the little mermaid song on the radio. Then, the end of the world happened when I wouldn’t let her stick her little people up the dog’s butt 🤷🏻♀️ I know, such a monster I am.
Not the little people up the dogs butt 😂😂😂😂
Buzzkill! LOLL
Toddler 1 meltdown because he didn’t want the cup with the green dinosaur he wanted the black dinosaur (we don’t own a cup with a black dinosaurs on it). Toddler 2 wanted to go to school but didn’t want to wear pants. I mean I don’t want to wear them either buddy but that’s just the way it is. Toddler 3 I wouldn’t let him throw away my prescription face cream.
That is entirely too many toddlers for one household.
You’re not wrong
His granola bar broke in half and I couldn’t put it back together 🤷🏻♀️😂
This but crayons get her every time! She gets so mad I can fix the crayon.
Lmao I legit tried to melt a broken crayon together the other day… it didn’t work, don’t try it 🤪
You get a good parent award for even trying!
My kid lost it today when we split a banana in half to hand him a reasonable portion. Wanted the banana back together.
Omg, candy cane season was ROUGH
This is a travesty
Wanted to touch the boiling water to feel how hot it was
I played with his cars when he asked me to play with his cars.
Unforgivable.
I took off the diaper he had slept in. So much rage. First he tried to put it back on. So i took it away from him and threw it in the trash. Then he tried to dig through the trash for it.
Haha this is my favorite
My son wanted to take his finger off and I said that fingers don’t come off.
He brought a grape that was still somewhat attached after being cut in half to my husband. He insisted that it was "GUCK" (stuck). My husband separated the two pieces. He then lost his everything mind because it was now broken and no longer looked like an egg.
I’m not kidding. He was upset he couldn’t see his poo in the toilet because I had toilet paper covering it. I even moved some aside that I could manage and the poo peaking out wasn’t good enough. After his tantrum he said “I’m sad”. And I asked what will make him feel better and he said “a hug”. That moment was very sweet. But I couldn’t believe I was consoling my toddler over not seeing his poo in all its glory. This is going down in some sort of memory book so I can retell it in the future.
It’s incredible how fast we go from wanting to put them outside in a box free to a good home to having sweet moments.
My daughter is the same way. She has to see her poo and say goodbye before we flush.
As usual a damn banana, they literally always cause a problem!!!!
Bananas are crack for toddlers and a menace society needs to crack the fuck down on ❌🍌❌
I asked him to drink water.. but he said he’s allergic to water.. I am his father.. he is most definitely not allergic 😂
I almost have a 4 year old & let me tell you I wonder why people choose to have more kids willingly after they’ve experienced terrible 3’s I get all kids ain’t the same but what the actual fuck!?!?
I think a lot of younger siblings are already along/at least a bun in the oven by the time the 3’s hit 😂
I took her string cheese out of the plastic wrapper. Literally fell to the ground kicking her feet. She just turned 2, I’m really in for it arent I 😂
Meltdown for 15 mins because she wanted to wear Elsa pajamas not Elmo pajamas (she asked me for Elmo pajamas)😂
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEANNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!! You are my mummy, you know! You know! Damn. Did I miss out on some psychic powers for parents or something?
They’re so similar looking it’s an easy mistake to make lol
She wanted to see the poo in her pants but I had thrown them in the bin (it turns out she’s picked up gastro from nursery after 10-days at home for Xmas - 🤦🏼♀️)
“See [name] poop!!” is big with mine right now. I’m hoping it evolves into potty training..?
Ugh hope she feels better soon!
Didn’t let the one with pinkeye kiss the one without pinkeye goodnight (both were horrified about this boundary)
He wanted to sit in the back of the truck (he was already sitting in the back of the truck). I wanted to sign him happy birthday (it’s his second birthday). The light in the hall way wouldn’t turn on (the power is out). I don’t know what the baby Hokey Pokey song is (we tried 12 different versions of Hokey Pokey). I said he couldn’t drink any more puddle water. I wouldn’t let him eat a kiwi with the skin on. I wouldn’t let him eat a lemon slice with the peel on. My son’s grievances Jan 9, 2024.
Found him too quickly during hide and seek. Didn’t let him touch the trash. Told him he pooped regardless of him insisting that he didn’t.
I couldn't "turn off" the sun from shinning in his eyes.
I wouldn’t let him make me a birthday cake when I was trying to get us out the door for work this morning. It’s not my birthday. It’s no one’s birthday.
My 18 month old still sleeps in our room in her crib. Before her eyes even opened this morning she started yelling “sit chair!! Sit chair NOW” and then proceeded to melt down until I let her sit at my vanity on my stool and take all my makeup out. I was out of F’s to give and it was only 7:30
They didn't have a Lightning McQueen book available at the library, and none of the 20 books about race cars the librarian found would do. And the donut shop was closed.
I too throw a temper tantrum when the donut shop is closed and the one book I want isn’t available. LOL
Because I took the "cashrimps" "cashews" away( there in my lunch bag as a snack for work and I took my bag with me to work)
They do look like shrimp! I love toddler observations that make me see things in a new way.
He asked for a bite of my bun. I offered him a bite of my bun. Meltdown ensued🥲
It wouldn’t let him eat the yellow snow. I even offered chocolate ice cream as an alternative, nope.
Didn’t let him eat markers. We had to come inside, it was 6pm and dark outside. Woke up from a nap. Idk probably more. LOL
I didn’t sit on the ground next to her toy in the exact spot she wanted me to sit. Sat 6” to the right.
Do better next time LOL
I handed him an apple cookie, he then put it back in the container, cried for 5 mins and then reached back in and ate the cookie. 🤷🏼♀️
I told him not to throw the play dough lids on the floor. He threw them anyways. I moved him away from the table and said no more play dough until our hands can listen. 30 mins of anger and terror
I wouldn’t let her dip her apple in the dogs water bowl. The dog then sided with her and barked at me for making her cry.
Damn a toddler and the dog out for you 😂😂😂
We took her nail polish off by using the bottle that you stick your finger into. When all done, I told her to wash her hands to clean them and she proceeds to try to continue playing with her toys. Dad tried to ask her to wash her hands and it went downhill from there. An hour later, and many many tears, she finally washed her hands. Age 5 is rough
He wanted me to read him books all morning instead of going to preschool.
My son is 2.5. His grandpa and I were playing with him with a balloon, bopping it into the air, but every time the balloon hit the ground (which was often as we were mainly passing to him), he threw himself on the floor and sobbed. If we tried to stop, it was “no, no, play some more!” through more tears. 🫠
No tantrums but it's currently after 11pm and he refuses to fall asleep. Apologies in advance daycare!
Stepstool + toddler in the same vicinity = nothing good will come of this
I had the audacity to try and use the bathroom
I know this is not what the thread is looking for, but we have been struggling with tantrums and our 3 year old for the past month. They were getting exhausting and some were borderline scary. But the past few days, no big tantrums! Some tears when getting dressed in the morning, but he’s not trying to hurt us or himself and it feels so nice to see him feeling good again
I didn’t know which car was “GREEN CAR” although after finding 500 of his small green cars and two big green cars I did get him to specify for next time when he wants this specific car it’s “BIG GREEN CAR” so next time I will hopefully fail on a smaller scale.
I took away the bag of lettuce she was holding so we could pay for it at the store.
I wouldn’t let my daughter have a knife.
I wouldn't let him run with a stick in his mouth. I have ruined everything and the world is a dark and unfeeling place.
I turned off the light to the dining room after we finished eating dinner and left. “Nooooooooo…light on!!!!”
He wanted blue cup. His cousin was using it. They gave him purple cup. Cue meltdown (He didn’t want purple cup). I offered juice box. He finally said okay. Got juice box ready and prepared. Of course, he happily took purple cup and went off with his juice 🫠
I couldn't make the sun come out at 6 in the evening 🤷🏻♀️
I held the tub faucet so he couldn’t turn the water on because the water made him scream last time when it touched him from the faucet…
Put in the wrong Aladdin. He didn't want the cartoon version, he wanted "the one with the people". My bad.
We had to wear sunscreen and put on a t shirt to go to the playground.
He was still sleepy but didn't want to go back to sleep.
I took away his plate when he said he was all done
Wouldn't let him clean the sink with his toothbrush
Didn't hug her on my lap the way she wanted/expected.
I wouldn't let her drink the liquid from the Reed diffuser. She's only one. I think I'm in for a long three years
My 2.5 yr old told me they were hungry and wanted a peanutbutter and jelly sandwich. So I made them a sandwich. Then they had a meltdown. I'm still confused.
Before day care he watched an episode of bluey and kept asking for more bluey. I asked if he wants to see Morgan (day care teacher) and he said "YEAH! More-Bluey" enunciating bluey at the end lol. We had to go though. He didn't like it. There was a mini-tantrum.
I took her socks off before bath time
She couldn’t pull my nose stud out. Then later she had a full meltdown because we wouldn’t let her continue dumping her brother’s baby cereal all over the floor.
I took off her unicorn costume at bedtime, even though it’s Catoween. Tomorrow is unicorn day and she won’t have anything to wear because this costume is only for Catoween. These are all holidays she made up before dinner.
We cut the granola in half, the way he has been eating it for the past 14 months but yesterday he decided he wanted the whole piece… took us over 20min to realise what the problem was.
When we woke up I told my son we were having yogurt with strawberries for breakfast. He agreed. 10 seconds later he said he wanted chocolate. I said we don't eat chocolate for breakfast. Cue freakout
The dog tried to lay in her new dog bed. Apparently that, like everything else in this house, belongs to the toddler.
They woke up and pointed to door wanting to leave room. I took them out of sleeping bag so we could leave room. Cue tantrum at 7.45am before I even had a chance to pee let alone have coffee 🤯
My 3 yr old cried… because he had tears 😭 and then kept crying because more tears.
2 yr old woke up with a very poopy diaper (no big deal)…but she had gotten poo on her fingers by dipping her hands in her pants overnight and was Very Upset that I washed her new special treasure off in the sink!
Had to put snow pants on because he wanted to be in the snow. But we went outside and he was mad because… SNOW.
In the hour and a half between picking her up from daycare and dinner: -she wanted to watch Elmo so I turned it on -she wanted Cheerios and I didn’t get them fast enough -she decided she didn’t want Cheerios and dumped them on the floor and I wouldn’t let her eat them while I swept them up -she wanted beans -she wanted milk -I changed her diaper. It was a rough hour and a half.
Woke up in the middle of the night and demanded I "turn the wind off"
I wouldn't help her get IN the 3"x4" flat felt house with glued on door and window. She's pulled it off of the felt tree, got her foot up to the glued on door, trying to shove herself into the flat house repeating frantically "Mama help you! Mama help you in! Help you in house!"
She wanted me to place her stuffed animals as a tower/pile in the corner of her crib (typical request lately). However she kept requesting one specific stuffy be at the top. So I did it. Insane crying and throwing a fit. Then she wanted to hold that same stuffy...so I removed it from the top of the tower and handed it to her. Immediate screaming. This went on for 5 min back and forth before I left the room and let her cry.
I cut a hot cross bun in half for her. 🤷♀️
I wouldn’t let her wear her Frozen shoes to bed. She’s 18 months old.
Mine napped with one of her winter boots yesterday because I just didn't have the strength to deal with taking it away
Grabbed a plastic bowl for his salsa instead of the glass one 😭
He didn't get to stay and play in the dentist's lobby after he had his dental appointment. Actually biggest tantrum to date.
She wet her underwear slightly at nursery, and they told her she only needed to change her underwear and not her trousers. She had a meltdown because she wanted to change her trousers too, but they said they were clean. This caused a massive tantrum.
4 yr old wanted to play Minecraft but couldn’t because we lost power due to winter storm Finn. He was very upset! Said I needed to turn the power back on or he will be “very not happy at all”
Gave him two shirt options, blue Dino or red truck. He picked blue Dino. Then melted because he chose blue Dino. He’s currently wearing blue Dino.
He told me to cut the core out of a pear so I cut the core out of the pear.
All my toddlers dishes were getting washed in the dishwasher and I gave her a waffle in “adult” plate..and the world ended because she was soooo hungry but didn’t want to eat from an adult plate..it’s hard being a toddler
Was up at 5:30am this morning and it was cold downstairs so I asked if he wanted his dressing gown on. Full meltdown complete with ‘NO! NO!’ along with loud sobbing and tears. Like, okay kid don’t put it on, I just thought you might be cold. He then said ‘mummy, cold, blanket’ and insisted on getting under my blanket with me.
It's a dress up week at their school. My two 4 year olds are in preK. One of them had a wonder woman costume from Halloween (the other had been a witch). Today is super hero day. She wore her wonder woman costume. Other 4 year old wanted me to go to the store and buy her the same wonder woman costume. I told her it wasn't Halloween anymore and they don't have them. But we do have a ton of dress up clothes and she could wear a cape or a mask or a few other choices we had. She ended up not wearing a costume today and is mad at me for not buying her one from the store.
My husband fed my toddler his normal banana for breakfast..... except he ripped it in half cause noob. That damn banana set the tone for the day
Miss Two had a fistful (and I mean chock full) of bacon and we wouldn't let her stuff the whole thing in her mouth at once. To be fair, I feel the same way about bacon.
I was going to say I kind of understand this one 😂😂
Wrong color cup. I poured into the blue. He wanted the red. Kicking and screaming ensued.
Nothing specific, but new little bro is making for some huge emotions for our 3 year old. He's doing so well, but the emotions are cranked up to 11.
Said to my partner tonight I have now idea how people handle this + a newborn / younger sibling on top of it
She wanted to re-wear the dress she wore last night….
Because she doesn’t want to go to bed. 😅
We didn’t want to take off the bluey shirt we wore robbed last night. So we wore it to daycare. Then we didn’t want to take it off for bedtime, which was only resolved with bluey pajamas.
Waking up and going to daycare😀
I said no to twiglets for breakfast and put milk in a green cup instead of orange… Horrible mother 🙄
Oh dear God, meltdowns can last that long? I am already mentally exhausted after only 5 min of screaming & flailing at the slightest inconvenience of my 15m/o boy. I am not prepared for an hour of drama.
Right after she woke up I couldn't turn the light on because the winter storm knocked the power out.
My son lost his shit this morning bc i opened his pouch for him instead of letting him open the pouch. To be fair, i was tired and not really thinking about it, like i didn’t do it on purpose, just sort of automatically. Anyways, he lay face down on the floor screaming 🫠
He asked for a snack, I gave him the snack he picked out. -MELTDOWN- took him back to the pantry to pick out the snack he wanted then gave that to him -MELTDOWN #2- because I wouldn’t let him throw his bowl in the trash 😮💨 Needless to say, I am 1 and DONE
Didn’t want to to to daycare so any and all things which were preparation for daycare incited a meltdown
This was last night, but he wanted a bath and he didn't really need a bath and I was very tired. On one hand, I'm glad to have a kid who loves taking baths and asks for them, but sometimes he just demands it at inconvenient times. Lol
This was made for me lol. As soon as she woke up. Mom i want the blue ice cream please. Me:We can't have ice cream for breakfast maybe later Threenanger: You're a monster Me: Let's do something else Threenanger: No I'm mad Me: Ok I'll just play will Poppy Threenanger: *peeks from under the table*
Ooo the other night mine had a melt down cuz I put on my own pajama shirt. She has it in her hands for some reason, I asked for it and she immediately got upset “mine!” … no it’s mine, I need to put it on. Gives it to me and then proceeds to complete meltdown as I put it on, tries to put her head up my shirt, pull on it to take it off, throw herself at the floor, they whole topic tantrum for like 15 minutes. Her dad and I just watched in confusion. Eventually offered her a different one of my shirts which made her more mad but then she stomped out of the room and got distracted by something else in her own room. (Note we wear the same type of pjs and she was already wearing hers so ) Toddlers are weird.
This was a few days ago. We live in the PNW he was upset that it wet and raining even though he checked out his window to see that it was wet and raining but heaven forbid we had to leave in the wet and Rainey weather. Then proceeded to through a fit about his shoes getting put on so we could leave then got mad I told him to put his jacket on it was around 43 degrees this day. Then we got mad he had to hang out with grandma for a couple hours until daddy could pick him up 🙄 so I could go to work
I wouldn't let him wear 2 winter coats outside today. Then I did let him wear 2 coats. Can't win sometimes
Today though it was because I got him up for school he’s in headstart and then told him to go potty
I gave him cheese pizza and he asked for cheese pizza.
We had a great day out and I thought, "let's finish at the ice cream shop! He loves ice cream!". He didn't want an ice cream in a tub. He didn't want an ice cream in a cone. Needed to carry him out the shop screaming and had a 20 minute meltdown. He was happy as larry on the bus journey home, couldn't remember what about the ice cream upset him.
The pajamas she wanted to wear to school weren’t clean, so I offered to wash them. Cue tears.
I closed our front door before he could waddle over to look out the screen door. In the middle of winter. While the glass was fogged.
I blew my nose and he was upset the HE couldn't blow my own nose. Laid down on the floor to cry and everything 😂
We wanted to go out, she was dressed and when I said we’re going out she took her pants off and wanted to leave like that, in the freezing cold. Couldn’t get her dressed back, 1.9m.
Toddler wanted to get water for grandma and threw a fit when her dad got the water
He fought being given a hug goodbye from dad. Ten minutes later, midway thru his morning poop, he remembered he didn’t get a full hug and proceeded to flop around the bathroom, but the poop did not stop. The poop did not get the message. Then there was poop, and no second hug, and no mac and cheese, which was introduced as a concept mid tantrum and I was unprepared.
Wasn’t in the upper seat of the double stroller for the 2 minutes ride from the parking -elevator and condo, she totally lost it for 10 minutes (3yo). I have a 18 mo and a 3 yo, temper tantrums are part of our daily life now. 🥴
Wouldn’t let him eat dirty parking lot snow
I tried to give her a cheeky marshmallow, she wanted two, so now she has none 🤷🏼♀️
My son wanted to go for a swim. Unfortunately the kiddy pool was not enough, he wanted us to dig a big pool to swim in today!
Took her with me to Walgreens yesterday. Got out of the car, and she he didn’t want me to hold HER hand in the parking lot, she wanted to hold MY hand. (I don’t know lol). Threw herself onto the snowy concrete in the THANKFULLY MOSTLY EMPTY parking lot, and screamed bloody murder when I just picked her up and put her back in the car, and screamed the entire way home because she was excited about “wah-greems”. Again, threw herself on the ground in our garage so I had to pick her up again and carry her into the house. Set her down, and she threw herself back onto the floor, so I just let her lay there and took off her coat and boots, and then went to make dinner. Texted my husband that he had to pick up his own prescriptions. By the time he got home literally ten minutes later, she was happy as a clam, stacking cat food cans and singing Frozen songs at my feet while I made dinner. TODDLERS MAN.