Poor parenting skills

We have poor parenting skills. This was demonstrated by the moon cake incident recently. We bought a box a mooncake from Welfarm. Normally, we would wait till mid-autumn festival is over and buy our mooncake when it goes on sale for buy one get one free. But this year we bought the moon cake earlier because we found a cheaper brand at $10. The most expensive brand is "Yong Wah" from Hong Kong and they sell for about $24 and rarely get discounted even after mid-autumn festival.

Anyway, the story is not about the mooncake, it is about how easily we give in to Meredith's demand. She wants to feed her bear with mooncake. Initially, we refused and she started crying.

Her initial reaction when I refused to give her the box of mooncake.

Level 2 of crying.

Level 3 of crying with tears streaming down her cheek.

Back to pre-crying level in a matter of seconds and the tears vanished as she got hold of the mooncake and started feeding the bear.

Enjoying the mooncake. Parent lose, child win!