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And cranky. Real cranky. She's whining and teetering on the edge of a crying fit, and the other folks around you are glancing over with irritated, disapproving looks.
You don't have any toys or books on you, making it extremely tempting to just shove your smartphone into your tyke's pudgy little hands to instantly shut off the waterworks.
But, the idea that you should turn to your phone whenever you feel unhappy or bored is not exactly the kind of lesson you want to teach her; you want her to grow up to be able to entertain herself, absent a technological device. So you think about busting out some pen and paper games like hangman or tic-tac-toe, but she's preliterate and only understands strategy in terms of figuring out how to poop so no one sees her.
What to do?