My 4 y/o son started bawling yesterday because he doesn't have breasts and will never grow them. I tried to console him with the awesome fact that he can stand to pee and his sister and I cannot. He then proceed to sob harder and told my husband over facetime that he was crying because he doesn't sit on the poop seat on the potty to go pee (apparently because he lifts up the seat to pee he considers it to be a poop seat).

I think I scored serious parenting bonus points for not even cracking a smile as this was going on but man I was laughing on the inside.

Yesterday my 2yo had a crying fit because I went to the bathroom. Then, when I came out she demanded that I go back in and pee again.

Anonymous wrote:DS cried and cried one day in the fall when he was 3 because I wouldn't put all the leaves back on the trees.

HAHA. Cute.

Anonymous wrote:My 2 year old suddenly won't let me wipe her when changing her diaper. She will scream out "No wipe PUSS! No wipe PUSS! Diaper on pwease!" while sobbing and squirming.

Told DH this and he blames me for the "puss" language. Which is probably true.

I'm laughing my butt off on most of these, but this one made me cringe. Are you trying to raise a trashy daughter?

Anonymous wrote:My young son melted down in the shoe store (right before Thanksgiving, REALLY needed to buy dress shoes fast). In the shoe store we were opening a shoe box of Hush Puppy brand shoes - large picture of a dog on the box. Son went screaming around the store, "no puppy shoes!" He was inconsolable.

Did he think the shoes were made out of puppies? Did he think he'd turn into a puppy?

lol!

DS cried and cried one day in the fall when he was 3 because I wouldn't put all the leaves back on the trees.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:2yo DS had a meltdown because grandma gave him his cup, instead of me. She had to go put it back in the kitchen, and then I had to go into the kitchen and get it and bring it back to him.

He also started screaming in the car because his Spiderman sandals were not velcro-ed evenly.

5yo DD cries because my 10yo DS looks or smiles at her.

You HAD to go through that charade for a toddler? Wow, we know who's in charge in your house....

You've never gone through a charade to fool a toddler to avoid a meltdown? Never pretended to hand them a new cheerio when it's the same old cheerio? Never dirtied an extra dish because they wanted the frog one or the puppy one? You are a better parent then I am, I guess. Of course, my hearing and nerves are still intact as I don't have to listen to a 2 year old scream all the time.

My young son melted down in the shoe store (right before Thanksgiving, REALLY needed to buy dress shoes fast). In the shoe store we were opening a shoe box of Hush Puppy brand shoes - large picture of a dog on the box. Son went screaming around the store, "no puppy shoes!" He was inconsolable.

Did he think the shoes were made out of puppies? Did he think he'd turn into a puppy?

2 y.o.
I asked if he wanted the monkey bowl or the frog bowl.
He wanted the monkey bowl.
He cried when I gave him the monkey bowl and said he wanted the frog bowl.

My two year old threw his bunny on the floor, then sobbed because bunny was on the floor. Oh gravity.

My cousin's son told his two year old sister that her name was Indian for "fart". Yep, massive meltdown ensued

Anonymous wrote:2yo DS had a meltdown because grandma gave him his cup, instead of me. She had to go put it back in the kitchen, and then I had to go into the kitchen and get it and bring it back to him.

He also started screaming in the car because his Spiderman sandals were not velcro-ed evenly.

5yo DD cries because my 10yo DS looks or smiles at her.

You HAD to go through that charade for a toddler? Wow, we know who's in charge in your house....

Anonymous wrote:My DD once had a meltdown on our way out of daycare. She wanted a sticker from the daycare office but there was a private conference being held and she couldn't go in there. She lay down on the ground in front of the door to the building, screaming hysterically, and would not move. For 20 minutes. Even though all the parents and children had to STEP OVER HER.

Why didn't you pick her up and take her azz home? Seriously.

2.5 yo twins:

- Recent trip to DisneyWorld, we went to Hollywood Studios. Due to a pouring rainstorm, we miss naptime. About 2 hours late, we finally get to the car and Twin A has fallen asleep in the stroller. One car seat in the row by the door, other in the third row of the minivan. Twin B insists on sitting in seat by the door, but I won't let him because I want to put Twin A there without A waking up. Twin B is put into the back carseat and due to an accident on the road, it takes us over an hour to make the 10 minute trip back to the hotel. Twin B spends 45 minutes screaming "No, THAT seat" before falling asleep. He sleeps 30 minutes and we arrive at hotel and Twin B wakes up when I get him out of the car seat (unfortunately!) and immediately launches back into "No THAT seat", so I put him in THAT seat while I move his brother to the stroller (still asleep), move bags to the stroller pouch, etc. He never stops screaming. I put him involuntarily into the stroller and we go to the hotel room. We take off his shoes, he never stops screaming "THAT seat" until we take off his shoes and then it changes to "No SHOES...Park" he thinks that if he puts on his shoes and gets back into the car seat, we're going to go back to the park. He finally fell asleep around 4:30 (normal naptime is 12:30).

- This morning Twin A insisted he wanted a "big banana" meaning he wanted the whole thing and not a piece. He proceeds to break the banana into 6 pieces and then complains that he doesn't have a big banana.

- A couple of weeks ago, Twin A was tantruming at dinner because we wouldn't let him get out of the high chair. My wife took the iPad out and videotaped him screaming for 15 seconds. She played it back and he stopped screaming fascinated by himself screaming on the video. My wife goes to drink water and the video stops. He looks at her and full voice yells at her "AGAIN!!!" and starts to cry. She snorted her water all over her face.

- We have many duplicate toys to try to stem off (futilely) some of the fights. We have had times that there will be two identical toys sitting next to each other and they will have a tug of war and wrestling match screaming "MINE!" and crying while the second of the identical items sits next to it. We had one instance where they tore one of two identical books before we could get there and then rather than either one playing with the whole item on the floor, they both cried about the ripped book yelling "Not nice!" at each other.

Anonymous wrote:This reminds me of the story (maybe I read it here on DCUM, but I forget where) of the toddler who threw a tantrum, the parent was carrying them outside for their tantrum and on the seemingly LONG trip to the door, the child screams "Stop treating me like a CHILD"

Ha. I have the flip side of that. When I was in kindergarten I remember my mom shouting at me, "Stop being so childish!"