So often, we’re advised on how to handle our children’s tantrums. However, sometimes, you’ve gotta let ’em slide… More for your own well-being than your child’s :) Here is a look into one of the latest tantrum escapades in our household…

I hope you get a giggle out of it. I sure did (AFTER the episode was over… Like WAY afterwards)!

My husband and I needed to get some groceries from Costco, so, as usual, we had a plan. The eldest was at school, so that was minus one distraction. We would go early in the morning, while the kids were still in high spirits, come home, and then they could nap… Easy enough, right? Sure, easy peasy!

Well… Our plan was being perfectly executed until we had just a few more steps to take in our walk out of the store. It was pouring outside… Picture this in slow motion: I have 2 kids in my cart, my husband is pushing the cart loaded with groceries, and my 3-year-old daughter wants to walk to the car. In the pouring rain…

We both turn to each other as the lip begins to pout. Here it comes. So like the “woes” I am, I smile and make a run for the car. The kids in my cart are giggling and laughing. I hear screams behind me, and I’m thinking… Poor man.

So, to be kind, I whip the first two kids into the car and turn to help my husband… but I can’t help laughing. He’s carrying a screaming, kicking, 3 year old under one arm (upside-down), her long blonde locks waving to and fro while trying to push the cart with the other… In the cold, freezing rain!

It was almost like a Matrix move: I swept in to save the day, grabbed my screaming child just as she lost a boot, swept down, grabbed the boot, and ran for cover. My husband loads the groceries into the car, and we are off… Shew… The other 2 were dead quiet, very aware of the situation around them, or maybe just amused because it wasn’t them getting into trouble.

However, the screaming did not stop. It started because she wanted to walk in the rain, then it escalated when her boot fell off (and she didn’t want anyone to help her put it back on), then it reached a crescendo when she decided it was time for someone to help her, but by then, we had already started driving, so we couldn’t help. The screaming turned to crying because we weren’t attending to any of her IMMEDIATE requests. Finally, the crying became little more than a whimper about how no one wants to help her…

All in a day’s work… Don’t you love going grocery shopping with toddlers?

Needless to say, we survived another day of parenthood. You want to smile proudly, high-five your spouse, and shout YEAH! from the rooftops. This definitely calls for a celebratory drink of some sort :)

Any funny tantrum stories on your side? Please share below!