Other Parents Keep Giving Me the Stink Eye. This Really Isn’t Fair.

Care and Feeding Aug 15, 20262:00 PM Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by patat/iStock/Getty Images Plus. This is a newsletter bonus question. 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 the mom of an awesome 4-year-old daughter who has some invisible disabilities. She is not a problem. But increasingly, I find that other parents are. My daughter finds it hard to be out in public places (the grocery store, restaurants, etc.), but if she has her iPad with her, it really calms her down. So we always have the iPad with us. It’s always on silent, and she’s silent when watching it—maybe sometimes she’ll hum. Anyway, this all works for us, except that I am constantly getting judgmental looks from other pa