My daughter is young, just 20 month old, but she’s already quite the drama queen. She’s been known to throw herself of the floor sobbing in an instant after not getting her way. In fact, if she even thinks things aren’t happening the way she would like them to, the tears start flowing and the howling begins.
It makes me chuckle a bit, because this behavior has never been modeled for her, and yet she reacts so dramatically every time!
She doesn’t cry out of anger or impatience, it truly seems as though she’s offended as she cries.
So today I bring you, 20 things my daughter finds offensive.
- Not going “byebye’ within 45 seconds of waking up
- Having her teeth (or hair) brushed
- Bathing in general
- Small dogs (large dogs are more than welcome)
- Some one photographing anything that is not her
- The glaring lack of cookies during most meals
- When people knock on our front door in the evenings and they aren’t daddy
- The majority of hairbows
- Anything fewer than 15 sippy-cups of milk a day
- When her favorite stuffed animal is washed
- Teething
- Babies who are not her best friend “B”
- Kroger carts that do not have a car attached to them
- When we run out of crackers
- Being limited to one gummy-vitamin a day
- Sharing
- Being told that all animals are not “dogs”
- When mama doesn’t get ready to leave the house in less than eleven seconds
- Food items void of cheese
- Her own inability to wear more than one pair of shoes at a time
Any and all of these things are reason for tantrums in our home.
She’s not even two and she’s already a little diva.
What do your kids find offensive?
Ashley Greenwood says
Love this list! All 3 of my children find most of these things totally offensive too!
Keep up the good work! ;)
~ Ashley
Sarah Clews says
My daughter is 20 months old as well. I like your list. Mine is similar.
Things she finds offensive:
being told she has to stay on the sidewalk and not walk in the street
not getting to ride the carousel every time we go to the park
that “tawberries” (strawberries) are not in ready supply at all times
when I ask her if she has to go potty. Indignant, “No!”
when she can’t go wake up daddy at the crack of dawn
being told she has to stay in bed until her clock turns green
not being allowed to play in the rock pile in our complex every day
getting in trouble for hitting the cat
not getting to watch Frozen or Tangled every second of the day
not getting to have hot chocolate at every meal
Jen says
Hahaha, I can totally relate. Our only daughter is five now, yet she remains the most easily offended child in our house, possibly because she has three brothers. :) Her most recent common complaint? Her youngest brother, her twin actually, is “too loud!” Of course, he’s always making some sort of noise or other, but she only gets offended by it when she’s already upset about something else. Work-in-progress parenting, right?!