“I find it so, so hard to navigate a public tantrum. While I try my best to remain calm, my blood boils. At the same time, I feel wildly self-conscious,” Laura Onstot writes. But watching a kid that wasn’t hers have a tantrum really changed her entire thinking process surrounding our kids’ meltdowns, how we react to them, and what it means for us as parents.

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Deputy Lifestyle & Entertainment Editor Julie Sprankles had the chance to talk to actor Tony Hale about his newest movie Sketch, along with the “dangers of ‘snowplow parenting,’ the importance of being present, and why everyone he knows is getting a rope bowl (whether they want one or not).”