Did you ever lose it at Disney

[taximomfor4]

I lost my temper one time (not enough ot cause a scene) on one of our first trips to WDW for the same reason, my DD wouldn't go on a ride. I felt very bad after that and I vowed never to do that again to her. WDW should be a place of happy memories and I didn't want to spoil that for her. It was just one of those things. That was 6 years ago and I'm glad to say I never did it again.

I'm with you. When I took dd on a mom-dd trip for her 8th birthday, she melted down in the first 2 hours EVERY SINGLE DAY. She flipped because I took her on Goofys Barnstormer. She flipped because the lights went out at the HM ride (we had to be sneaked out the "other" exit and skip the ride...she was on the floor on her back screaming her head off for like 3 minutes, the next crowd was supposed to come into the entryway but couldn't while she laid there shrieking.) IT WAS UGLY! It happened every day, all day, on every ride EXCEPT BUZZ LIGHTYEAR. I had taken out a loan to take her on this trip, because her dad, who had been saving with her for years to go for her 7th birthday, got remarried and drained the Disney savings account to buy his new (child-bride) wife a hottub. I kept calling my husband, flipping out, crying, etc. Told him I was gonna put her on a plane and stay myself. All this in front of her and anyone standing around. Most of them saw her fits anyway, so maybe they commiserated?????

Turns out, she liked the parks just fine but really wanted to hang out at the resort instead. (ASMu). Loved the pool there so much that she never wanted to leave it.

So now we are going with TWO ADULTS and all the kids. If kids act up, parents split up, lol. I WILL GO ON HM THIS TIME!

Beth

 

[Ducky4Disney]

I just know that I am going to wind up on this thread someday! Hearing these stories really opens my eyes and I'll be more understanding when I see a situation like this in WDW. And please be understanding when you see me do this (it's bound to happen).

D4D

 

[MAGICX2]

My DH, DS2, and I went in Oct. 03. I stayed with DS whilehubby went and rode TOT at MGM. That was all he was supposed to ride. By the way I was 7.5 months pregnant. One hour and 45 min later DH returns and says he went ahead and rode RRC and TOT TWICE!!! Needless to say I was upset. It was DS naptime and he didn't want to stay there and wait, it was raining, it was miserable! I started berating DH for the next 5 min all the way down Hollywood Blvd. DS pipes in and says "don't talk to daddy that way." And before I could stop I said"YOU, shut up!" The looks I got from people around us! DS started crying, I felt soooo guilty. Needless to say DS got what he wanted from mommy the rest of the day. I try really hard to control myself while at WDW. It is really easy to lose it. All our trips since have been fine.

 

[maxaroni]

More than once....I'm bad. Our first trip as a family and my DS cried through Bug's life and hated the 3D aspect. I was comforting my DS (8) and DH thought I was babying him and he walked off. I was so angry that I then blasted DH. I felt bad afterwards but I couldn't let DS be so upset.

The other time was just being hot, sticky and tired. Trying to figure out what to do next and we all had different ideas and I just lost it. Mainly, my irritations come from being hot and tired. I get to the point of being run over by a stroller, stomped on or pushed for the umpteenth time and that will get me going,too. I hate myself afterwards and think that I'm in my 40's and should be able to hang in there.


I've witnessed many a frazzled parent and come to realize many of us get to that point at some point or another.

Our first nite, on our last trip, we didn't have PS's anywhere as we wanted to just 'wing it'. We went to MK and all were hungry but DH didn't want any sort of burger place. Not many restaurants in MK if you don't have PS. Anyway, we wound up at Cosmic Ray's and I was on one line and DH on another. DS was going back and forth between us trying to help but at this point, he was irritating me. Cosmic Ray's was crowded, we were tired and hungry. As I'm on line, the woman behind me started losing it, bigtime. Her kids were the same as my DS...going back and forth between her and her DH. She then said to me that she had had it, this was not only a family vacation but DISNEY and she was on her 2nd nite....losing it already. My point is, many of us tend to get frazzled at some point or another. Just knowing someone elsewas on her last nerve for the day made me feel better.

 

[jekajekalynn]

I lost my temper last year, on our 1st ever trip to WDW, (1st day even!!) . First of all, my brother in law and I were forced to wait in what I fondly describe as a pitch black cattle corral at SM. This was because the ride broke down JUST as us and another large group of ppl entered the queing (spelling) area, and all the lights went out and we were stuck there in the dark for quite a while. Well that cheesed me, and after we rode SM for the first time and when we got out, my dm and dh were standing there with my ds in his stroller, and my dh exclaimed that we had to leave right then and there because he said our ds was upset and needed to go home. Well I looked at our ds and he was happily giggling and sucking away on his sippy cup, so I thought "well........uhhhh ok, if you say so". And then he went on to declair that because it was lightly sprinkling that we should all go home for the rest of the day and not come back. Well that did it for me , lol, I gave my dh the angriest gaze and proceded to storm off fast , like a 4 year old would, because I was t-ed off to the highest level of t-tivity (because at the time we only thought we were going to MK for only one day, turns out we ended up staying for 3 ) and my husband followed behind and honestly didin't know why I was upset!!! Well suficice it to say, we returned that afternoon and we all had fun.

 

[kakiegirl]

We were at Disney in July and dd then 3 had spent so much money on items and when we got back to the room they were just discarded and forgotten. Well we were at Magic Kingdom at she saw a pair of minnie ears she just had to have they were really pretty green and pink sparkly with material hanging down in the back like a princess. Well DH the strong one just said no. She then turned her big baby blues on mommy and I said Shelby are you going to wear these. She said yes mommy I love them. They were in the store were you get you name embrodried on mouse ears. So we bought them left the store and she got in her stroller which was parked right outside the door. We had just started pushing her when she took them off. Well I made her wear those ears and on the bus all the way back to the resort she kept attempting to take them off and I made her wear them all the way back to the room. I know people on the bus were thinking what a horrible mom making her child wear those ears. Of course she hasn't worn them again since that day, but they are really cute on her stuffed Mickey Mouse.

 

[NUHuskies#1]

DH and I weren't exactly yelling as much as we were making a comment. We were going to the Contemporary for Chef Mickey's one day with our two boys and feeling very stressed from the day's activities. The boys were 7 and 3 at the time. They are now 12 and 8. We had a PS at 5:30 PM and were running late and found out we had to go all the way out to TTC to get to the hotel. The kids were hot, hungry and complaining and it was really aggravating us because we were too. Well, my DH looked at me and said in a very stressful tone, joking but serious, "We're in HELLLLLLLLLLLLL!" Then my 3 yo looked up at him and said in all seriousness, "Daddy, we're not in hell, we're on the monorail!" We all burst out laughing and all the stress was gone! A Disney moment- if I ever had one!
It is VERY easy to lose it in WDW! But just as easy to quickly get over it.

 

[mommytutu]

I got really mad at dh last October...but in my defense he was being a JERK!! I think I stayed pretty level headed since the kids were there. But....

We arrived to Disney on a Friday. It had been a really long day with the flight and all, but we were going to MNSSHP anyways. We were there about 3 hours before ds wasn't feeling well and so we left. OK, no problem. We noticed that ds wasn't turning his neck. To look at things he would turn his whole body. Then we noticed that ds had a small lump in his neck. Now, I had taken him to the dr. just the day before, on Thursday, and he checked out fine. His allergies were acting up, but no infection or anything. Well, this lump continued to grow. By Sunday you could see it without feeling it. DS said he didn't feel bad, but we noticed he also wasn't eating. We go to AK on Sunday morning. He hadn't eaten. He started to feel bad. I suggested we find him something to eat. All the walking with the heat and no food might be making him feel bad. We start looking for a place to eat and of course when you need something NOW, it just seems to take longer to find anything. We finally find something. We had to practically force ds to eat two bites. It didn't help. I gave him some Emmatrol (anti-nausea med...I carried it in my fanny pack). We waited a little bit to see if the med would help. No he wasn't feeling any better. I say we need to go. DH gets MAD! He started saying "Maybe we should just go home. If he's going to be "ACTING" like this every other day. We should have never even came. What a waste of time. What a waste of money" He was making ds feel even worse. On our way to the bus he *tried* to take the stroller away from me, but I didn't let him. I told him he can just walk on with his bad attitude, that me and *my* kids will be right behind. I was as nice as I could be, but referring to the kids as *mine* always seems to to get to him. So then he starts yelling at us for walking too slow and now we're going to have to wait for the next bus if we don't run. I just keep on walking with my kids. We made the bus just fine. We get back to the resort and as soon as we step off the bus ds throws up. Of course, dh didn't know this becasue he gets off the bus and takes off without us. When we finally make it to the room ds lays down for a nap. DH is still mad. I kindly, really as nice as I could be, let dh know that we would play it by ear. When ds wakes up if he's feeling better we would keep our plans and go to Epcot that night. If not we would just start over in the morning. I reminded him that ds had been to the dr. the day before we left and checked out fine that maybe he was just exhausted and in desperate need of a break. The lump in his neck is of great concern to us and I let dh know that if something is wrong with ds he [dh] would feel really bad for acting this way and I'll be taking ds back to the dr. when we get home. And dh suggests I take ds to the emergency room, but then we decide to wait for ds to wake up and play it by ear. DS wakes up and feels fine and we carried on for the rest of the trip without incident. It turned out to be the BEST vacation ever! Although the lump did continue to grow and ds still couldn't turn his neck, but he said it didn't hurt and he felt fine. And dh was as sweet as can be for the rest of the trip, even things that he would normally blow up at...he never said a word. I was so proud!

OK, so when we get home I take ds back to the dr. The lump is suspicious and after some lab work confirms there is still no infection we are sent to a specialist to rule out lymphoma. So during the whole process of dr appointments and surgery and waiting for biopsy results, dh is really glad we got a fabulous vacation.

BTW~~biopsy results came back negative. He just had a funky lymphnode. And now when dh mentions the trip I'll jokingly say "Oh, but you forgot to mention the big hissy fit you threw" and he'll just at me with embarrassment.

 

[ReggieB]

My DS4 and I have a real clash of personalities at times (which is a real worry, if it's this bad now, I am dreading teenage years) We had a couple of ocassions on our last trip when I just had to walk away (I hasten to add that my DH was there too..I didn't abandon my son in the park!) Pretty much a case of "Now Mommy has this pressing urge to go and look at that topiary, I'll be back in a minute"

I catch myself nagging quite a bit too (I imagine people around must think I a a real sour puss!)...deep breaths you are in Disney now, relax.....

 

[TuppenceABag]

oh man, this thread got me thinking. My blood is boiling even now. My story goes like this. We were in MK in either 1998 or '99 and I had settled on the "perfect" spot to view SpectroMagic. Now keep in mind I had sat in this spot for over an hour and a hlaf with my parents in tow. Well the parade starts, I stand up and start to videotape, and from behind me I hear this man sreaming at me to sit down. I was like "You are not telling me what to do. I sat here for almost two hours and you just walked up and you are telling me to sit down. Oh hell no." My mom knew I was ticked. She told me to watch it because of the children around. And I did. But I just kept mumbling (loud enough for the jerk to hear me) about how some people think they can just walk up and see the parade from my "perfect spot". Now also keep in mind that I was videotaping the whole parade, and yep, you guessed it, the whole ugly dialog is recorderd for prosperity. Now some of you are probably thinking what my first initial reaction was "that the man wanted me to sit down cuz I was in the way of his kids seeing." Well he had no kids, just him and some woman, who could see perfectly. I am the type of guy that will let the kids in front of me to see the parade. If he wulda had kids, I wulda either let them in front of me, or sat down. I mean I had waited on the curb forEVER. LOL

 

[Amy&Dan]

Okay, confession time, maybe it will make me feel better. This is my most awful mom moment, don't hate me more than I hate myself! While at AK this past February, my son wanted to play some of those carnival games. We said okay, understand my poor little boy is like Charlie Brown, never gets a break, never wins anything. He is the kid I spend $20 in tokens on at our school carnival and he still never wins at the cake walk. We tried for a solid two hours once, I mean the odds were in our favor, no cake! Anyway I literally prayed that he would win a game for once. Well he lines up, he is 10 and the other two kids were like 3. I am happy, he can surely beat a toddler. Nope, another game lost! I was almost in tears, I was frustrated anyway because we had just broken our camcorder. Before I knew it I told him: " I can't believe you let a kid wearing a pullup beat you!" OMG what did I just say. I was so mean. He cried. DH looked at me like I was on acid. I then let a loose a few other choice comments and then when my son smarted off to me I pinched him! My God, a wonderful trip suddenly turned nightmare. I cried and immediately told him how sorry I was. About 100 times. I then spent $50 on more games (those games at AK are sooo expensive) and finally he won several little monkeys and a stuffed snake. Then DH beat the same toddler that had beat my son and got a big stuffed Dinosaur. I was screaming "YES!!!!!!" I wanted that toddler to be humiliated and beaten by God. I still tell my son how sorry I am. Every time I go back to that section of AK I will feel like I am returning to the scene of a heinous murder I comitted. Sorry to run on and on but the answer is, yes I have lost my temper!

 

[dkostel]

I was hanging out at Davy Crocketts on the porch at FW with a friend & I saw a group of 14-15 YO boys get out of Trail's End with 2 parents. At first I thought how nice or at least how brave of the parents of one to take 5 of his friends to DW - and I still think it was. But the parents went their own way and as soon as they were out of sight the boys broke bad. They were swearing & talking smack the way groups of young teen boys sometimes do when they are together. Fine, whatever, but then they took it upon themselves to start chasing one of the white peacocks that just walks around there. Peacocks are not fast BTW and the poor thing looked like it was scared to death and about to have a heart attack. I stood up and yelled "Hey, stop that right NOW!!!" They stoped in their tracks and turned and walked quickly away. An older gentleman on the porch smiled and said "good for you" but I was upset for hours afterward.
Another time, during e-ticket night, a group of teens was in front of my 7YO niece and myself and they just took out a pen and were about to write on the wall in one of the cave - like areas. I couldn't believe it, they were very nice, asking my niece if she was having fun, etc. I controlled myself that time, I just told them that there were cameras everywhere and they'd be escorted out of the park in under 10 minutes if they wrote anything. She just flashed a guilty smile and put the pen away.

 

[LibertyLover]

Oh gods, yes. This past January my DH, DSD24, DD2 and I went to WDW for a week. The first few days were very difficult as friends of mine had come up to WDW to meet us and meet DD for the first time. My DH and DSD had real problems with some of their attitudes (e.g. it would be cheaper to let all the manatees in Flordia die or get killed by boats etc. and import others from South America) and as a result tempers were short. About the 3rd day, DD2 had a classic toddler meltdown in AK, to the point where I realized she needed to go back to the room, have some lunch and get a proper nap. As we (or should I say I, since she was doing the equally classic "limp toddler" trick and had to be carried) exited AK, she stopped doing "limp toddler" and launched into the "flailing toddler feet and hands of death while screaming at top of lungs" act. She managed to catch me at the same time with a fist in the eye and a foot in the stomach. That's when I lost it. I sat her none to gently on a retaining wall and explained to her in words of one syllable or less what a bad girl she was and how I was not going to stand for her behaviour. Of course the minute I put her down on the wall, she stopped crying and flailing about so people going into AK had no idea why this woman was reading that child the riot act. Oh well - it kept her quiet until we got to AKL, our room and some food.

 

[MommyBoo!]

We went with my inlaws in 2003. They arrived 5 days before us and we left 5 days after them. We spent a total of two days together. Now, MIL and SIL have a habit of undermining what I say when it comes to our kids. DH is usually off yakking with his dad when this happens. The one time SIL did it in front of him, he laid into her. If he doesn't see it, he won't comment on it, except to tell me he won't let it happen again. Yeah, right. At least, it was that way until this trip. Now, things are different.

We went to MNNSHP on Halloween night, eating at the castle for dinner beforehand. Now, we were told when we made the PS for dinner that we would not get to meet Cinderella. They said that we may see her in the castle but she would probably be going back and forth from the shows and would not be able to pose for a picture or sign an autograph. She might have a moment to say hi, maybe more if we were lucky. DD was 6 at the time. She had gotten to meet Cinderella the year before and she wasn't her favorite princess anyway. She had seen Aurora (her favorite) the day before and was happy. She totally understood about not seeing Cinderella.

I explained (in detail) to MIL about Cinderella. We're eating, MIL sees Cinderella going up the stairs and jumps up and starts dragging dd to go see her. They go back and forth and up and down the stairs. I am trying to get DH to do something about it but he is busy talking to FIL. I catch up with them downstairs and try to get my daughter back so she can finish her meal. MIL says lets try upstairs again. I lost it. I look at MIL and say (okay, probably yelled) very loudly and very firmly, "Stop it! You are making her upset!". She really was too. DD had started saying she didn't feel well. Well, MIL looked at me, yanked DD by the hand and took off up the stairs. SIL glared at me. DS looked at me like Whoa! I followed in the elevator. I was almost 7 months pregnant and starting not to feel so good myself. I went back to the table and told DH what was going on and that he had to come NOW. He told me he was talking to his dad and that I should just tell her to stop. Now, I did restrain myself from blowing up in the restaurant but did manage to convey to him how upset I was.

End of (long, sorry) story, dd ended up with an upset stomach. Stress will do that to you. They never got to meet Cinderella. DD would not go near MIL or SIL. She only wanted me and sometimes, DH. I really did try not to get into it with MIL in front of the kids because I knew it would stress them but DD looked so upset. She started feeling better but still wouldn't go near them. She told us later that SIL had been trying to get some info out of her that DH and I had told the kids was a secret. We had told SIL she would find out that night but she decided to try and pump DD anyway.

 

[areno79]

Wow, this thread really puts some things into perspective!

I had my meltdown at MK when DH and I made our first trip together in 2003. It was our last day there, we were both exhausted and my feet were killing me. DH wanted so badly to ride the train around the park. So we did, and got off in Toontown Fair. I wanted to sit and relax and he wanted to keep riding that stupid train. So there we stood in Tomorrowland screaming our heads off at each other. It ended with DH storming off to get a soda and I sat on a bench and wouldn't talk to him for an hour. We decided to make it an early day and went back to the hotel. Good thing, we may have seriously scared some more people if we kept at it!

 

[MinnieM3]

With numerous trips with TWO teenagers and a baby/toddler/pre-schooler, let me just say....yeah....been there..... and leave it at that!

Usually it's the same teenager stuff that ticks me off at home, (attitude, lazy, eye rolling, etc.) it just happens to be at WDW. No huge blow-ups, but I do get angry!

 

[Nora94]

This is the reason I HATED Disney!! LOL. My boyfriend and I spent a day at the Magic Kingdom back in 91. We had been together for 2 years and NOT had ONE fight yet. Literally, not one argument about anything.

Well, we go to MK, it's HOT and HUMID and we were both tired. I don't remember what our fight ended up being about, but we FOUGHT. Major. Almost breaking up fighting. He ended up saying he was hot, and I ended up throwing my drink on him to cool him off. NOT GOOD!!

I am happy to report that was one of two fights we had in the first 10 years we were together. After I got pregnant though, geez, I became a witch! LOL.

Nora and Rich, together since Thanksgiving 89, married since Sept 11, 1994

 

[carmel]

I had a minor meltdown when my daughter refused to ride Snow White's Scary Adventure. You see, I wanted to ride it and thought I would look like a fool if my 4yr old were not on it with me. She said it was too scary and I said, 'Don't be such a baby.' I rode it and then felt really bad as I saw her and DH riding Dumbo together and she was having such fun. I'm so glad I didn't force her to ride it.

 

[missypie]

Wow, I love all these True Confessions!

I've never lost it at a Disney park (yet) but I did do an entire afternoon at Six Flags absolutely infuriated at DH. The kids were something like 5, 3 and 0 and our firm had a Six Flags Day where everybody got free Six Flags tickets. DH proceeded to do all the thrill rides, leaving me sitting on various benches for an hour at a time with three kids. I think I must have spent 3 hours that day at Loony Toons Land. And I didn't get to ride a single ride in a whole day at Six Flags. (Gosh, it still makes me angry to think about it!)

The foregoing story is the reason I waited until our kids were 12, 10 and 7 before we had a Disney vacation!!!

 

[crystalgirl58]

This summer my mom, brother, Ian (8) and I (14) went with my uncle and his 2 kids, chloe (3) and alec (7). We spent 10 days with them and then 7 by ourselves.
Now that I look back, it was a good trip, but when we were there I thought I was going to die. It sounds weird, but my cousin Chloe and my mother don't really get along, Chloe loves me and refuses to listen to my mom. It's pretty funny, but ticks my mom off. I've been babysitting these kids for years, so, sometimes they would find us a place to be like a bench or table, or a ride to go on and uncle steve and my mom would go get food or do whatever they had to do. Around the fourth day of vacation, my wonderful little brother started pulling power trips. I actually started planning how to murder him and make it look liek an accident... it was bad. Since he was the oldest of the three kids, he would get them to follow him. Once we were on a bench outside Pecos Bill close to Splash Mt. and I asked them to just sit still while uncle steve went to the bathroom and mom got in line. My brother, who had been an angel all day just looks at me and goes "no, i think we should be indians" ?!?! He does this 'indian' thing at home which just embaresses me to no end, you know, yelling and running around... well, he gets up and the other kids do to and they all start screaming and running out in to the walkway. They were running into people, making everyone stop and nearly hitting strollers... To make this long story short, I was finally able to grab him by the arm, yank him over to the bench and I just started yelling at him. I'm sure I looked like something out of a horror movie, I was so mad, I think I scared him. Chloe and Alec just kind of slinked back while I was yelling at Ian and stood next to the bench. I was just so sick of Ian not listening to me. By the time uncle steve came back from the bathroom. All three kids were sitting on the bench, white faced and Ian was in tears. I was sitting a little farther away from them, not facing them...

It was probably my worst (public) sister blowup.