She ate all the biscuits

At 7 years old she’s old enough to know it’s greedy to finish the whole pack and not fair on the rest of the family. I really don’t understand why people are minimising her behavior with the ‘naughty little scamp’ attitude.

Read the book chocolate cake by Michael Rosen, it’s great!! Maybe she has prada Willy or something else going on? How many was in the pack?

@sploshsplash 100%

Possibly. But neither me nor my siblings nor my dc have gone down that particular route of learning, so I guess to me it seems not a usual rite of passage.

It could well be for some, but I'm just suggesting op keep alert to issues and doesn't just treat it as a disciplinary thing.

So if he was around - yet he still didn’t think to tell her no more cookies 🤔 not blaming you by the way! Just to make clear

Or she's 7 and still growing up and learning?

I have a full kitchen cupboard and drawer filled with mini chocolate bars, biscuits little cakes etc, then crisps in the bottom cupboard. I fill it once a week (and I mean fully fill it). My 2 help themselves whenever they fancy. Surprisingly the once a week turned into every 10 days, then 14 etc. They also have yoghurts in the fridge and lollies in the freezer. Knowing they can have them whenever stopped them going mad on them. Don’t get me wrong, if a new treat appeared there, they wouldn’t last 2 mins!!! But after a few weeks of them being bought, they don’t go as quick. Mine are 16 and 6. They also get desserts and other treats as well. Being more relaxed about it means they feel like they are in “control” of eating them. So they don’t eat them as fast. Maybe buy her a pack of biscuits on a Monday and tell her they are just for her, nobody else but when they are gone they are gone until next week. Plus, if she eats them all in one go and makes herself sick, she won’t do it again!!! (As both my children have discovered!!)

Am sorry you and your sister reacted to your mum's way and I hope you'll both be well going forward.
But the OP hasn't restricted any of these foods, if you can manage to read some further posts she explains that her little one has treats out of the house too.

As someone who wasn’t allowed sugar by my parents I’d gorge when i got the opportunity. Normalise biscuits OP. Banning them does far more harm than good!

YABU. Making certain foods off limits and strictly controlled led to eating disorders in me and my sister.

When we were kids and had guests our mother would go nuts at how we acted like ravening wolves over anything "naice" and embarrassed her. But it was because we were never allowed anything like that normally. So yes would eat it all if we could.

My kids have had no restrictions and as a result the only one who is overweight is big because she has a medical condition and ironically eats the best out of all of them that have left home. The others can all take or leave junk. My sister will have chocolate/biscuits in the house all the time and I never ever buy it. She is a recovering over eater and I am a recovering anorexic.

So what are your thoughts @Imissmusic?

Are you worried for her health or you are concerned that her lack of control (albeit your girl is only 7, after all) will spiral and eat all the pies too?
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Well, I guess, potentially, a number of things.

Impulse control issues, attention seeking, comfort eating, sensory-seeking behaviour, issues with hormones that signal fullness. ADHD can cause over-eating for stimulation.

I wouldn't like to pick one, but I just think seeking out food outside mealtimes then eating to the point of nausea seems worth investigating. I wouldn't tell her off until you have had her checked out.

Tbh, I don't know any families who eat dessert for every night. You're normal OP, please ignore the MN's who think all parents are to blame for everything and all their children have little halos and they wouldn't dare help themselves or eat beyond a tiny bite.

Don't forget children have a naturally hard-wired sweet tooth, designed by nature which tends to lessen when adults. I presume your daughter has a stronger one and is a cheeky soul who helped herself. She is only 7 though and she's still learning. Many kids will pinch something that they shouldn't, be it sweets or other things, it's part of development and they are learning.

How patronising.

I’m not “fretting the small stuff”, or fretting any big stuff. But my 6 yr old doesn’t plan/cook meals or know what food might needed for something else. So she checks. And 90% of the time, it’s totally fine.

Yes I would be cross. She hunted down the biscuits and ate them all in one go. She and knew she had done the wrong thing. At least she admitted it to you so I would acknowledge that but be very clear that I was disappointed.

FFS it’s nothing to do with buying the bloody biscuits!

It’s either the fact that she hasn’t been given boundaries not to eat sweet treats willy nilly without permission.

Or the fact nobody was engaging with her and she wanted attention. Your DH was so engrossed in his computer/having a poo he didn’t notice her searching everywhere and eating half a pack of biscuits and then she brings herself up to bed and tells you. So maybe attention seeking in my opinion.

it’s clearly a pattern so something is up. Buying some biscuits is so not the issue here.

like pringles, once you pop...

News at ten. Little girl has sweet tooth.

She's a kid.

It was one pack of open biscuits. The OP said her DD had a few after dinner. Presumably that is at least three. Then OP and her DH had a couple. How many biscuits in a packet? Anything from twelve to sixteen (small)? So the child ate between three large or seven small biscuits.

Calling her selfish and greedy? Really?