I Asked My Husband to Watch Our Son for Just a Second in the Grocery Store. I Shouldn’t Have Trusted Him.

Care and Feeding Aug 07, 20261:00 PM Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Getty Images Plus. Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. Dear Care and Feeding, My husband “Ashton” and I were in a grocery store with our 3-year-old son, “Jaden,” yesterday when I turned my back to grab a bag, leaving Ashton to watch him. When I turned around, Jaden was gone. I began to panic when a man called to me and pointed to a melon bin. My son peeked out from behind it. After collecting Jaden and putting him in the cart, I looked for my husband and found him ogling a woman in yoga pants! It took everything I had to keep myself from reaming him out in the store. Once we were home, I let him have it. He promised it won’t happen again; his so