The hysteria over here!
Comfort eating because she’s traumatized by what is a fairly common life event for billions of children?
Stop it. I laughed out loud.
7 years old is a perfect age to learn about not being the only person who matters in the world.
She is greedy. All that means in the dictionary doesn’t have a whole moral dimension. It just means a strong desire to indulge in some food.
I eat like this. I’m 32. My mother still comments on how it’s expensive and overindulgent.
My parents were high income earners. My mum the bigger earner and there’s not a chance I wouldn’t be in trouble for not leaving things for anyone else in the house.
Or eating the more expensive items without asking if my parents had their own ideas for it first.
This kid shouldn’t just be diving into the fridge without asking anyway.
Unless she knows how to be considerate.
My parents had money because they were sensible and high income earners.
They bought icecream and juice and crisps.
They expected to each have a large glass of juice each left for both days of the weekend. Not an unreasonable ask. So I being a bit greedy would top my orange juice craving up with filtered water from our fancy plumbed fridge.
I was taught that just because I want something doesn’t mean I should have it.
I did not feel deprived. Or unloved by my stepdad. Or chastised unfairly. They also deserved to get a share of what they paid for.
My mother had a demanding job. She would never shop mid week. If it’s out then that’s it. Once a week or 2 week shopping with a cart or two full.
Also fair. She was coming home after 7. Cooking, washing, cleaning and earning the bucks.
That’s absurd amount of expensive fruit.
The suggestion that she shouldn’t buy it is also absurd.
The point of this is she would also like to eat her darn raspberries.
But she can’t because her husband has obviously never parented and taught his kid courtesy and boundaries.
She’s 7, not 3. But honestly my free range half siblings that had never been disciplined were more considerate naturally at age 4/6. So this is silly.
Simple answer, if you want something from the fridge then ask.
I still ask my mother if I can eat food I know she bought for me(and I have lived in my own place since I was 18) because what if she decided maybe she’d like it or she wasn’t up to going shopping after working.
I’m 32. I ask if I can have guests in her home. Always have, always will. Even when it was my home.
I steal her icecreams though. Which is rude but I’m a sugar addict and I work late from her spare bedroom instead of my home.
But I also buy her snacks to replace.
Being polite is a lifelong thing. And so is learning how to manage financially.
This is not going to cause an eating disorder. The commenters projecting their own issues are also ridiculous.
It’s not a big deal.
Imagine the aliens doing a Attenborough show on us: also they’ve just emerged from the dark ages thanks to eliminating serious diseases and malnutrition they can’t stop killing themselves with a psychosis caused by ……..vanity.