50 classic tantrums you absolutely must have before the age of 5

Toddlers and pre-schoolers everywhere – how many of these classic tantrums can you successfully tick off your list? Get those wobbly bottom lips at the ready, practice those wails, make sure the tears are flowing and do your best to tick off all 50 before your 5^th birthday. Your parents will be so pleased!

1. When your toast comes in triangles but you wanted squares.
2. When Mummy pours the milk onto your cereal but you wanted to do it yourself.
3. When Mummy then lets you help pour the milk and it spills everywhere.
4. When Mummy won’t let you have your favourite toy at the breakfast table in case you get food all over it.
5. When you sneak said favourite toy onto the breakfast table and it gets covered in porridge.
6. When the yellow cup is dirty and Mummy tries to fob you off with the orange cup.
7. When Mummy won’t let you squeeze the toothpaste onto your toothbrush because last time half the tube squirted all over you.
8. When she relents and you squeeze the toothpaste and it goes all over you.
9. When Mummy helps your sibling clean their teeth before she helps you.
10. When the top you really, really neeeeeed to wear is in the wash.
11. When your socks are itchy, despite the fact you have worn then a million times previously.
12. When you share a snack bar with your sibling/friend but their bit is bigger than yours.
13. When your sibling/friend suddenly starts playing with a toy you forgot you even had and won’t give it to you right now.
14. When your sibling/friend won’t let you play with their toys, even though you never let them play with your toys.
15. When you want to go on the swing on the right but so does your sibling. The one on the left is not the same, Mummy, so don’t pretend it is.
16. When Mummy tries to make you wear a coat even though coats are stupid.
17. When you get outside and it’s really, really cold and you want your coat now, now, now.
18. When Mummy won’t let you jump in puddles because you haven’t got your wellies on.
19. When your socks and feet are soaking wet because you jumped in puddles and mummy doesn’t have any spare ones with her.
20. When you want to wear your sandals in the rain/wellies in the sunshine/slippers to the park, but Mummy or Daddy says you can’t.
21. When Mummy flushes the toilet for you but you wanted to do it, even though when she asked you, you said no. She should know you really meant yes.
22. When Mummy opens your packet of snacks upside down.
23. When your snack bar is broken and Mummy won’t fix it back together.
24. When Mummy tells you not to jump around in your seat, in case you spill your drink, and then you spill your drink and your clothes get all wet.
25. When Mummy makes you spaghetti for tea and it tastes yucky and she make out it’s your fault because last week and all the other weeks it was your favourite.
26. When you get given sliced carrots for tea but you wanted batons. Of course there is a difference!
27. When you go to a birthday party and the birthday boy or girl doesn’t want you to help them blow out their candles.
28. When you get the wrong colour bubbles in your party bag.
29. When you let go of your balloon outside the party and your useless parents can’t catch it for you.
30. When you don’t want to go home from softplay/the park/your friend’s house yet. but Mummy says you have to.
31. When Mummy won’t let you play in the front seat of the car because we are running late to get somewhere really boring.
32. When you don’t want to get in the bath.
33. When you don’t want to get out of the bath.
34. When you’re about to get into bed and your favourite toy is nowhere to be found.
35. When Mummy does something for you but you wanted Daddy to do it for you.
36. When Daddy does something for you but you wanted Mummy to do it for you.
37. When Mummy is going out with her friends in the evening and won’t let you come.
38. When Mummy presses the button at the pedestrian crossing/the lift/the cashpoint machine and you wanted to do it.
39. When Mummy wants you to do arts and crafts but you want to watch the TV.
40. When Mummy and Daddy want to watch something really rubbish and boring but you want to watch Peppa Pig.
41. When Mummy won’t let you speak on the phone because it is “an important call”. What can be more important to the doctor/bank/solicitor than hearing you sing Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star?
42. When Mummy wants to take another photo of you but you don’t want to smile and look at the camera.
43. When Mummy never lets you do anything fun and won’t let you play with sharp knives/boiling hot saucepans/the toaster.
44. When Mummy keeps telling you not to pull the dog’s tail/hit the cat/prod your baby sibling in the eye, even though it is so much fun.
45. When Mummy won’t let you eat stones/slugs/pet food/your shoes.
46. When Mummy says it’s past your bedtime but you’re definitely not tired, emotional or irrational.
47. When Mummy won’t take you to toddler music class today and gives you some rubbish excuse about it being the wrong day of the week and the class not being on today.
48. When it’s 4am in the morning and Mummy and Daddy don’t want to play and tell you to go back to bed.
49. When Mummy tells you to stop having a tantrum over any one of the above.
50. Just because.

How many can your little one tick of the list? Let me know by tweeting me on @cardiffmummy or say hello on my Facebook page.