'Stop laughing at me!' Hilarious footage of 40-year-old father entertaining his family by lip-synching along to his young daughter's temper tantrum in the next room

  • After everything else has failed, an unnamed dad decides to make light of his young daughter's non-stop temper tantrum
  • The rest of the family loves his lip-synching routine, but it only increases his daughter's fury and she starts screaming 'Stop laughing at me!'
  • Mother Kathy Sterner posted the hilarious footage on YouTube

By David Mccormack

PUBLISHED: 15:30 EST, 20 October 2013 | UPDATED: 03:51 EST, 21 October 2013

Temper tantrums aren’t much fun for anyone within earshot as young children scream themselves hoarse because they aren't getting their own way.

But one couple recently decided to film themselves making the best of a bad situation - when their six-year-old daughter refused to stop screaming at the top of her lungs.

The hilarious results were posted on YouTube by mother Kathy Sterner, who wrote: ‘My six-year-old daughter had been in her room wigging out for about an hour, and there was no talking her down.

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When everything else had failed, the unnamed dad decided to make light of his six-year-old daughter's non-stop tantrum by lip-synching along

‘I was getting fed up, so my husband decided to lighten the mood.’

The video consists of Ms Sterner’s husband standing in their kitchen reacting and lip-synching along to the screams of his daughter in the next room.

The unnamed daughter can be heard screaming ‘Mom listen to me!’ while her father seeks to lighten the mood for the rest of the family by reacting to her squeals of annoyance.

 

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The lip-synch is well done, and the father even adds some accurate facial features to go along with the tantrum. Two boys – perhaps older brothers – wander into shot and are clearly enjoying his performance.

But all this hilarity isn’t the reaction that the young girl had hoped for, so she decides to turn things up a notch by screaming ‘Stop laughing at me’ at an even higher volume.

Dad’s movements and mannerisms become even more exaggerated as his daughter completely losses her cool. 

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After starting out merely winey, the girls decides to turn things up a notch after hearing the rest of the family make light of her tantrum and dare to laugh at her

Before you jump to the wrong conclusions about the family and their offspring, Ms Sterner is quick point out that her daughter is not typically a beastly child.

‘She's actually a pretty awesome little kid who was having a rough day,’ she wrote.

One commentator on YouTube asked how come her husband was able to so accurately mimic his daughter’s screams.

Ms Sterner explained that because the girl had been screaming the same thing over and over for an hour, it wasn't exactly too that hard to anticipate what was going to come next.

‘We could hear her take a breath when she was about to start up again,’ she explained.

‘The "Stop laughing at me!" was a new and unexpected twist, and he went with it. He's a pretty good actor, and was big into improv when he was younger.’

The video has already been watched more than 560,000 times since it was posted on October 11 and has attracted over 3,800 likes.

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The dad's improv skills proved a hit with the rest of the family and with YouTube viewers

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Surely, this is better than hiting the child till they stop out of fear, as would have happened to me and many other kids no doubt, if I"d have dared behave like this 50 years ago.

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now every single person who knows the girl's father will know of her tantrum - Kelsey, CA, 21/10/2013 11:23 And?! Every kid has a tantrum once in a while! What's there to be ashamed of? I'm sure you had tantrums as a kid too ;)

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Oh dear.....I thought this video was going to be so funny, and it was, but it was very disturbing too. The daughter was clearly distraught. This guy looks like a lot of fun as a Dad, but I think his and Mum's fun-poking was misguided. Damaging to the child, me thinks.

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I literally cannot stop laughing at this! Genius!

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Is he simple?

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Hysterical!

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Is that Jeremy Piven?

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ahahahahahahahah aahahahahahaahah ahahahhahahahhaa & the son laughing and the mum kids would make you go crazy if you didn't have a bit of fun! love it ahahahahahahahaha ahahahahahahahhahahahah

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Brilliant, that's made me giggle

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now every single person who knows the girl's father will know of her tantrum

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