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Every parent has that moment when your child has a meltdown.

One of the most memorable ones, I might have shared it here previously, happened when one of the

kids was about six.

They were hangary.

We were in the aisle, the toilet paper aisle, and they absolutely melted down.

Just everything came falling apart.

I think this child was five-ish, maybe six, and they just had a big pity party of crying and screaming on the floor.

And so I decided I didn't need toilet paper, and I just kept walking.

And I rounded the corner and left that child just screaming there.

And I'm sure somebody thought, what's going on?

But I just thought, I don't need this drama.

I'm not rewarding this behavior.

I don't care.

Toilet papers sales were down.

You know, I was able to go back, retrieve the child, and grab some.

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