I rolled my eyes and slipped on my headphones to daydream about what I’d do to them if they were my own children. I scolded myself for behaving like those cranky adults who seem to enjoy parenting other people’s kids in public. Mom took a sip from her smoothie as a blueberry rolled under my chair and laid to rest at my foot. “All unsupervised children will be given an espresso and a puppy.” Andrea Chacos lives in Carbondale, balancing work and happily raising three children with her husband.