JFF: What Fits Have Your Kids Thrown Lately

Nope you are not. My 3 yr old daughter had a fit yesterday cause we did her nails and she messed them up. I fixed it twice and she still messed it up. I told her that we had to wait till grandma came home cause she has nail polish remover and we would fix it. She screamed and cried and slamed doors and threw her toys and told me that she doesn't like me anymore. I keep trying to get her to learn patience. But it is not working. I am afraid that when the baby comes it will only get worse. I try to explain to her that when I am taking care of her brother that she will have to wait until I am finished. She says ok now but what will it be like when reality comes? Drives me nuts, epecially now that I am 7 months pregnant and this heat is really getting to me.

Oh yes my daughter is nearly three. She is great most days, but every once in a while she has, what I have decided to call it, toddler PMS. Yes, that's right three to five days of irrational behavior. It started yesterday:

Melt down because she told me to go away...and I did.
Melt down because we found out her bath mat had grown some mold, so my husband took it out and drained her water. Well she wasn't ready to get out, so she screamed and threw a fit, shivering and bare assed in the tub, yet still refusing to get out.
Melt down to put on her Molluscum medication

Today:
Melt down to get dressed.
Melt down because she broke my glasses and I lost my temper and yelled.
This is my favorite :
I just put her down for a nap. After about 15 minutes, I hear her yelling, "No MINE." What? She's in there by herself?!? So I go in and check to see what is going on...My little darling has crawled under the bed and has her leg stuck between the bed leg and the wall. So to solve the problem she is yelling at the bed to give back her leg.

Chocolate works for me during PMS, you think it might work for her?

The car seat...we have one pink one, and one black one. They fight over the pink one and so I make them take turns.

Sometimes it is who get a shower first, if one kid pipes up, XX goes first, then they just volunteered...that works great!!!

***update***Im reading these and laughing hysterically!!!! im so glad im not alone!!!! I like the broken graham cracker!

my god these are fun....

my son will be three in Aug. He had a melt down this morning because his graham cracker broke..
Had one the other day because I didn't cut his sandwich into triangles like daddy does...(damn you daddy! lol)
Has had a fit because I had to pee before I went in the kitchen to grab him some milk.
I swear...lol
Oh and get this, My daughter is just about 11months old...she throws fits too...

She got soo mad the other day because she wanted to eat what my son was eating. So she threw her body to the ground, started "crying" and rolling around on the floor.
I tried my hardest to not burst into laughter.

My overly tired/overly hungry 3 y/o had a complete melt down last night while I was making dinner b/c he was snacking on a piece of cheese and I broke off a piece and gave a bite to his older brother. You would have thought the world was coming to an end!! Goodness, being 3 is tough! :)
He also had a fit when it was time to brush his teeth b/c his brother wouldn't let him use his toothbrush!!! I had to agree with my oldest and tell him he couldn't use it so he says to me, "Mama, be nice and share!"

I cut my three year olds waffles with a fork... not a knife. LOL He had a huge meltdown sunday morning!

OH MY GOD! I WAS THINKING OF POSTING THIS VERY SAME QUESTION LAST NIGHT...

As my six year old was scareming about how he refused to lay on his bed because there was a tiny bit of glitter on his sheets. I kept thinking to myself...''Really, he is screaming over glitter''...This went on for almost and hour and half.

My middle guy is having a issue with sharing things lately. so, he can be outside playing with something/someone..come in and see that his lil' brother is playing with something and start freaking out that he had it and it is his...When in all reality...It is not his, he has not had it and wont be getting it that way.....This can turn into a knock down drag out fight with him sometimes.

My kids are having the naughty whip cracked down on them. This summer it is like the water is tainted with crazy medicine.

I found my first I hate mom note...My six year old had gotten in trouble for sneaking out of his window to play outside while he was in time out.....So, needless to say...I lost it when I found him playing out back. When he was in his room he wrote this note...''I haet Libby....I think she is so stoopid mom is''...When I found it...I was hurt but then thought about it...He wants to hurt me and I would rather have him getting his feelings out in a safe and sane way...Rather then blowing up....So, I will take the good with the bad on this one....I did tell him that he needed to work on his spelling and grammar though...

Our everyday battle is who sits in what carseat/booster..and when. To the point I take them out to the car one at a time....So, they cant fight!

My 11month old twins had the mother of all meltdowns last night for reasons unknown to me. My daughter started it and my son decided to join in.
And you have got to be kidding me that shredded cheese is not an accepatable in the car snack! Who knew :) thanks for making me laugh I needed something to brighten up my day

LOL @ SHREDDED CHEESE!! ;)

My 19 month old is in a permenent temper tantrum state. The question for him would be 'what DOESN'T entice a tantrum?' Answer: Blues Clues and cheese balls.

It's gotta get better one day, right? ;)

I don't know how old your kiddo is, but mine doesn't talk, so we share the frustration of him trying to communicate, me trying to decipher grunts and growls. Hello speech therapy! Maybe try to explain emotions (or find a good kids book that does) for your little one, so he can get a better handle on his moods :)

ha we're done meltdowns and and at 4 moved into pout downs...lol....and the simplist thing can cause it, I call her cousin pretty and not her the exact same instant (pout fest) i tell her to sit down in a firm voice (pout fest)she wants to be spoken to in a soft loving voice even when shes ignoring M....this kid tries M....lol.......3rd time in a row "emmy get your shoes on": if said nicely the 3rd time she has the nerve to tell M., "since you kept a sweet calm voice mommy I'll do it" which then sets M. off into no emmy I am calm BUT you will listen to whichever tone I use, dare i get a authoritative tone then she goes into full on pout on how i hurt her feelings, and how come shes not allowed to talk like that....grrrrrrrr lol

I have to explain what are appropriate in car snacks to, yogurt is not one of them.
The other morning my 2 yo had a fit because I made homemade pancakes and not the frozen ones.
he threw a fit when the dog wouldn't give him her toy back- he kept telling her to share.LOL
He had a massive meltdown because he didn't want to get out of his car seat.
I can relate to the glitter on the sheet only in our case it was stuffing from the dog toy.
@ Stephanie H, mine tells me to be nice too when I am trying to get him to go to time out. He says "You be nice.!!!"

M.,
The grace in all this is how you handle them - if you have to put your foot down or can you find something that will handle the situation - not placate per se, but making sure you are not being arbitrary about things (MY parents didn't allow that so YOU don't get it either! No fun for anyone!)

Grace in parenting is extremely hard to find but it is out there.

Scott Noelle has a lot of free ideas - and in fact has a free tip each day that can be mailed to your inbox. Of course he has stuff you can pay for, and if I had funds I'd be reading a lot more of his stuff!

Good luck finding grace!
M.

PS: Daily, my dear, Daily. Sometimes I'm graceful, sometimes not. One of these days I'll just start journaling all of it online.

Yep, meltdowns over stupid things here too. And tons of bickering. Maybe it is partly the heat lately? I wish I knew why my 5 year old is more prone to the meltdowns than my 2 year old.

Oh you are soooo not alone! My son threw a fit yesterday at Target because they didn't have the type of cart he wanted--a screaming, crying, yelling, thrashing fit. My daughter threw a fit today because she didn't want ice cream in her milkshake?! There have been so many ridiculous ones lately, it's hard to keep track! I find though that they get like this when they're tired. I always say I won't push or skip my daughter's nap, but sometimes I do it anyway. Why, oh why?! As for my son, he won't nap, refuses to, but still really needs to at least every now and then.