JENNA GALLINA IS an Canadian mam who has a three-year-old daughter – and she knows a thing or two about tantrums.
So she wrote a blog post for Australian site Babyology that’s gone viral around the world and it’s titled:
44 completely rational reasons my three-year-old tantrumed today
And they are very reasonable indeed, like:
- She wanted to wear her Elsa shirt (which is in the dirty clothes pile).
- She put her underwear on backwards.
- I put the wrong episode of Strawberry Shortcake on.
- I didn’t get her breakfast quickly enough.
- She didn’t want cereal. She wanted oats.
- I gave her the wrong bowl for her oats. She wanted the bowl that her uneaten cereal was in.
- She spilled oats on her knee.
- She wanted the small spoon.
- I gave her the yellow blanket instead of the pink blanket.
- She wanted to wear her Elsa dress instead of her Elsa shirt.
- It’s not her birthday today.
- Her seatbelt felt funny.
- Her brother looked at her in the car.
- The cat wouldn’t let her pick him up by the tail.
- She couldn’t open the wrapper to her muesli bar.
- I opened the wrapper to her muesli bar too much.
- Her muesli bar broke in two.
- When colouring in, I used the wrong colour of blue for Cinderella’s dress.
- I sat on her imaginary friend.
You can read the full list here, but needless to say her daughter can get creative when it comes to throwing a wobbler:
- I cut her sandwich into triangles.
- I cut her second sandwich into squares.
- I wouldn’t let her play in the car.
- I suggested we take a nap.
- She dropped her hat on the road.
- I didn’t let her answer the phone.
- I sat on the wrong side of the couch.
- It started to rain.
- I had to cook dinner.
- Her brother talked to her.
- She spilled her water.
- I used the red towel to clean it up.
The final reason she cites that set her daughter off was simply:
I yawned.
Ah, yes.
The joys of parenting.
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