I am a single parent-teacher DS age 10 is slightly overweight but eats well, just eats loads.
We are tight for money this month as had large car repair bill and he has accompanied me to Iceland for a extra tight budget shop on an old love 2 shop voucher, trying to stretch for enough to cover the week.
We went yesterday- 24 hrs later (all by himself) he has finished a 1L blackcurrant squash, ate his 150g treat and finished off his brothers, finished a further bottle of drink, spilt blackcurrant on the side and not cleared it up then put a whole loaf of bread in it and said I'm not eating that now. A 400g punnet of grapes, tub of diced pineapple and several ice pops. He ate his and his brothers bananas, oranges and youghurts.
After speaking to him yesterday, he repeated it all again today and I lost it.
Where is your respect for our family, don't you understand sharing, what are we going to have the rest of the week, why do you think everything is for you etc etc. He looked very upset and kept apologising but I said you apologised yesterday and repeated it again today.
WIBU? I can't hide food/lock away, he needs to have some self control. He does this surreptitiously- not sneaking food away just hiding in the kitchen.
So not to drip feed, this is not a.new thing but is exasperated by the strict school holidays budgeting.