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Hey everybody, it's Marielle.
There is 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 your 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.
Selena Benavidez is a developmental psychologist and a professor at Oxnard College in California.