Heh heh. My daughter did that a few times. Kids are so funny, but of course you can’t always laugh in front of them because it makes them so mad.
That’s hysterical. It kind of reminds me of my son, who’s 3 and 1/2. He does something like this (gets louder and louder and more dramatic if you ignore him), which reminds me of me when I was trying really hard to make my mom feel bad for getting mad at me for something I knew was actually my fault. Now I wonder if she was in the next room chuckling. Wow, that sounds bad. I must also be part of the mean parent club.
And to the OP, no, you’re not a mean dad.
I don’t think the OP is mean, but this thread does remind me of a kid I used to babysit. Total devil with a voice that could break glass. Appropriately enough, she once smashed a glass against her bedroom wall, cutting up her hand. Only she was shut in her room to cry, so she’d actually lost quite a bit of blood once her parents found her. I didn’t care for her much around that time, so I really wonder if that incident made her parents pay closer attention to her cries, perhaps to her detriment.
Today, Beta-chan (15 months) was having her formula, and was really fussy, again. She’d drink a few minutes, then through the bottle down on the floor and cry. I’d get her bottle back and she’d drink for a few more minutes, then throw it down again and the cycle would repeat.
After 4 or 5 times of this, I finally had enough and told her (although she’s too young to really understand) “OK, if you through this again, Daddy isn’t going to get it for you.”
She threw it again, of course, and so I just sat there. She looked up at me and just cried harder, so I set her on the floor. After a few minutes of crying and realizing that Daddy wasn’t doing anything, she came over and got the bottle herself. She then got back up on me, and finished the bottle without it doing on the floor again.