Playfelt: thank you so much for always giving me good advice on all my questions! What has happened is that the child who I terminated starting screaming at this other child on purpose to make her cry, so it became learned begaviour. That child is now gone, but my 16 month old daughter learned to do the same and has picked up where the other left off. I don't know how I can make her stop and I know that if she didn't get the reaction of crying, she would not do it. I don't think the cryer is doing it for attention, but it is like a stimulus-response and she gets very upset, closes her eyes and just cries and cries. It happens most at the table during meals and I try to sing a song or anything else I can think of to take their attention off it, but it is hard to get her to stop crying. She tends to cry easily when she falls down, can't do something, etc, and she is just a sensitive type. She doesn't cry about other loud noises though...it is the association with the screaming that started with the child I had who used to bully a lot. I am worried that if I remove her from the table, it will be like punishing her. I could remove my daughter, but even if I move her a bit away from the table, she can still scream. Maybe I need to have more distractions than just singing. I feel that if I can stop it from happening for even a little while, they will forget about this little game.