Oh definitely... my patience is hard to find when it comes to my son sometimes lately! He is in a pretty bad tantrum phase aswell though. He seems to think that, whenever I tell him to do something or ask him something, as long as he is polite and says 'No thank you mummy' I'll let him off or it's ok that he doesn't want to do it. Even when I ask him if he's done a poo he says: no thank you mummy!
It's so funny!!! - but shhh don't tell him!!
Everytime we tell him to stop doing something or tell him no, or even when he doesn't get what he wants straight away when he wants it he just starts crying, or run away and lay down on the floor crying, or even starts screaming and we thought he was over that phase!! He was like that at first when he was approaching 2 years old, but it's back!!!
It's so annoying, I usually ignore it but that doesn't seem to help much, so when I really don't have any patience I just send him out of the room and tell him he can come back when he's done!
There's just no need for screaming or crying whenever you don't get what you want or don't get it straight away! He threw a hotwheels car at my husband earlier today (hit him in the head with it!) because he was sitting on his lap, whilst hubby was playing a computer game and he was watching a program on the other screen (hubby has 2 screens on his desk) and hubby had his arm on the desk and apparently he wasn't allowed to have it there, so my son decided to throw this car against his head!! - He's never done something like that before!! I couldn't believe it! (obviously there was the naughty step consequence straight away!!)
Anyway, long story short my son has been a handful lately and it's really not helping my patience!!! I feel bad sometimes for shouting at him or getting annoyed with him!!