The kids come with us to the grocery store all the time. It’s an important and generally low stakes environment to practice being in public—something OP apparently didn’t get practice doing as a kid.

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This makes me think of the desperate, exhausted young woman I once saw sitting on the floor of an airport, holding a squirming, crying baby while she fought hard not to cry, herself. Her loneliness and isolation were palpable. All I could do was tell her she’s doing her best and this too shall pass.

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I love taking my kid to the grocery store. Sometimes she is loud, but that's about as bad as it gets.

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If that person feels this way, they should advocate for government funded childcare. Even with family and friends around, it’s so difficult to find time to go to the grocery store alone. I had 3 kids and I don’t think I ever got to go by myself.

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and now i can read and do math

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