My 4-Year-Old Pushes Me Until I Do Something I Regret. Every Single Time.

Care and Feeding July 15, 20261:00 PM Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Andrey Zhuravlev/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, I am 14-weeks pregnant, and my 4-year-old is the most provocative, boundary-pushing kid. This morning for example I was laying in bed after spending several hours vomiting. Both talking and standing up are likely to lead to more throwing up. My partner was in the bathroom so no one was watching the 4-year-old. She comes into my bedroom and starts playing with stuff that’s breakable/off-limits. I tried multiple times to quietly ask her to stop, tell her how sick I am, ask her to leave the bedroom and go play etc, and she just escalated what she was doin