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Kids that young aren't able to wrap their heads around people pretending to leave like that. It's just like how you can't train, say, a 1mo old not to cry at night. It just stresses them out more, and if you do it a lot, you run the risk of the kid having trust issues.
but I don't see the problem in him pretending to leave. There was another adult there. Plus he came back almost as soon as he left. I feel bad for the kid but he did eat the tomato haha...