Just a Bucket on the Drop

Our daughter lives by the motto, "Why cry over a little spilled milk, when you can feel better by just dumping the whole thing?"  Last night she spilled some milk down her chin and onto her shirt, so she dumped out the whole bowl onto her tray.  Tonight she dropped a couple of peas, so she dumped the whole bowl onto the floor.  You name it, if she's spilled a little, she dumps the whole thing--water, rice, milk, peas, crayons, paper clips, etc.  I'm still not sure what her rationale is.  Maybe she thinks that the pieces she dropped will get lonely.  Maybe it's her way of saying, "What's the point?"  Maybe she just likes to see how we react.  Or maybe she thinks its cool and will go undetected if she dumps the rest where she's already made a mess.  What she doesn't understand is that she is not just adding a drop to the bucket.  She is dumping the bucket on the drop.