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Hey everybody, it's Mariel.

There's a moment that every parent and caregiver dreads.

We had gone into a grocery store and it was about to start to go down.

It's the moment when you're otherwise happy and frankly charming child starts to lose it and everybody's

watching. She was getting upset I had just started loading up my cart I knew she was

overly tired I was pushing it.

Selina Benavides is a developmental psychologist and a professor at Oxnard College in California.

She spends a lot of time thinking about how to help people navigate parenthood.

And she admits there's an extra layer. thinking about how to help people navigate parenthood.

And she admits there's an extra layer of challenge when you have to make parenting decisions

in public.

It's no longer in the comfort of our home where we might have a certain practice or routine habits

establish with our children and we fill the judgmental eyes from other people and

that can shape how we parent and also how children might respond to us.

Today on Life Kit, journalist Emily Signer is going to talk to Selina

about your questions on parenting in public.

We're talking tantrums in the grocery store,

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