Our 3-Year-Old’s Maddening Approach to Life’s Setbacks Is Filling Me With Dread

Care and Feeding July 13, 20266:00 AM Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by romrodinka/iStock/Getty Images Plus. Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. 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 and I have a 3-year-old daughter, “Charlotte,” who has been a crier from day one. As a baby, she was hypersensitive to everything, and even now, she responds with meltdowns to minor disappointments (block tower falling over; being told she can’t have cookies for lunch). We originally wanted to have three kids, but now we’re contemplating keeping it to just her because we dread what it would be like to deal with our pe