‘What’s the oddest thing you’ve seen a child have a tantrum over?’ – 23 impressively irrational kids spotted in the wild

13.

‘Just this morning. Because it wasn’t dark when they’d woken up and they wanted it to be nighttime and not morning. I couldn’t make it nighttime.’
–priiizes9091

14.

‘Not a tantrum, but somewhat related – When my daughter was very little, we were in the shop when her face lit up in amazement and shouted ‘Look mummy! Harpic Power Plus!’ (The advert must have made a big impression on her). It was a quid, we bought it, she was delighted that we now owned Harpic Power Plus.’
–author_dreamweaver

15.

‘The first proper tantrum my daughter had was because she wanted ‘big’ ham. We gave her a piece of ham but apparently that wasn’t correct. We never did figure out what ‘big’ ham was.’
–Sevenoflime

16.

‘My six-year-old niece recently had an extreme tantrum and was very cross with me because ‘you promised every time you see me you will always bring me a surprise’ (I didn’t, we think she may have had a dream that that happened), so I said ‘isn’t it surprising that I didn’t bring you anything?’, which was not the correct move on my part.’
–JennyW93

17.

‘Our then three-year-old cried because she didn’t want to be upstairs. She also didn’t want to come downstairs. And when I say cried, I mean full-on meltdown screaming. That was a fun afternoon.’
–Equal-Butterfly3715

18.

‘Wanting the waves to ‘go away’ which was a problem, considering we were on a beach.’
–Poo_Poo_La_Foo

19.

‘My child had a tantrum because I didn’t know why a man, a complete stranger to us both, turned off from the street and walked down a different one.’
–Lunaismydog

20.

‘When my sisters were tiny there was an epic meltdown because one sippy cup was a fraction of a millimetre taller than the other identical sippy cup. None of the adults in the room could see any difference but it was absolutely the end of the world to the two toddlers.’
–SneezlesForNeezles

21.

‘Earlier today on our dog walk, my toddler daughter threw a tantrum because my husband was holding her purple turtle and hadn’t given it back to her after she threw it on the floor. She then proceeded to throw another tantrum because he offered it back to her.’
–glittermaniac

22.

‘A little boy was having a tantrum because he wanted to buy his dad a birthday card that said ‘To My Son’ on it, and his mum was trying to gently explain that they should pick a different card. I walked into the aisle at the point where the boy was sobbing ‘Dad is my son!”
–Dramatic-Purple7398

23.

‘When my eldest was about three he cried for about an hour because he couldn’t find his third nipple.’
–lisbethplus2

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