It's just oranges. I need to let it go. Why am I so pissed off??

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DS (8) ate 4 oranges a couple of weeks ago.
Bought some more, I told him not to eat 4, so he took the whole packet and said he would eat 5

He refused to put them back, I confiscated his phone he had a tantrum that I haven't seen since he was 3.

Roll on 3 weeks and I bought some oranges an hour ago.
We all like the bloody oranges.
I go up stairs to settle the baby, come back down and he's eaten all of them.

I was supposed to take him to the park for ice cream but now I'm so livid he's in his room and I said no to park and ice cream because he's been selfish.

But it's just oranges, I should let it go shouldn't I?

We were all looking forward to getting out and enjoying the sun. I'm just so pissed off with him doing whatever the fuck he pleases.

Why does he have a phone? No wonder his behaviour is crap.

I'm petty and vindictive.
So I'd probably make him use all his pocket money to buy oranges (satsumas?) for the family and not let him have any.
Two weeks in a row.

Wind them up and watch them go thread?

Hardly? The resolution was found pretty quickly if you read further down.

We went to the park, he didn't have an ice cream and we bought more oranges.
We aren't on a low income but as most have said, it's not about the fruit. Which is how I started the thread because I was mixing two issues.

Thanks for the help.

I’m surprised at people say they “don’t see the issue”, maybe they live in houses where it’s OK to scoff all the food and not leave any for anyone else, but I don’t. It’s greedy and selfish and I would be pissed off at him too.

@Nomoremilk my children have phones. Their behaviour is pretty fantastic. Go be a judgemental cow somewhere else.

You read half the responses on here and I now realize why I encounter so many entitled little buggers with poor impulse control when out and about.

Fruit isn't all good for you! It's FULL of sugar and destroys teeth - especially citrus fruits like Oranges

Oh I have read the FT . Life in a family is about sharing - the fact it was oranges ( implication is healthy ) rather than anything else e.g. chocolate . crisps , snacks, leftovers etc is not the point IMHO - It's just sharing nicely with your family. So if you take the last bit of something - nice to shout out "Can I have this or does anyone else want it "

It’s complete bollocks that fruit is full of sugar and bad for you. Fruit contains fructose which is only bad for you if eaten in extreme quantities. It’s extremely difficult to consume enough fructose to be dangerous. Fruit also contains fiber and other nutrients.

One satsuma is about 50 kcal. Even eating 4, that’s only 200 kcal.

Yabu to call them oranges when they’re satsumas. Two different things. You knew the correct name OP so why didn’t you use it Would have saved people thinking you meant, well, orange-sized oranges.

Glad you were given a good solution though as imo he did deserve a consequence for not obeying you or thinking of others.

“It's just sharing nicely with your family. So if you take the last bit of something - nice to shout out "Can I have this or does anyone else want it "
Absolutely this.

@BlackCatSleeping Are you serious?! Fruit contains naturally occurring sugar which rots teeth - fact

i think he's being greedy and selfish and YANBU to punish him.

DSD is 9 and tried this quite often, also with fruit. She will come in and eat an entire punnet of grapes/strawberries/raspberries if I don't tell her to stop. I think you handled it correctly.

@BlackCatSleeping

Also they contain Citric acid which as you can see DOES destroy tooth enamel. Oranges have the highest levels of citric acid

I remember my dd saying “I et all the dawbies. It was a naaccidently”

That’s hardly a peer-reviewed paper in a respected medical journal. Just because some article on Google says it. Fruit has an undeserved bad reputation. Dried fruit and fruit juice can be problematic but is there actually any real evidence that whole fruit causes health problems?

I really don’t get why such a young child needs a phone wtf

People who don't limit fruit, you do know it's horrendous for your stomach to eat huge amounts of fruit? We've two fruit addicts and we do have to watch it-satsuma poo/ puke is rank!!

@AlexaAmbidextra this is pretty much word for word what i thought when i read that post

It is annoying behaviour but honestly I would buy more fruit.
You say they were satsuma or tangerine sized, I'd eat loads of them in one go, they wont give a healthy person a bad stomach.

It’s extraordinary that people don’t see a problem with one person in a family eating everybody’s share.

I don't blame you. Yes its just oranges but it sounds like he did it to aggravate you. THAT would be my problem. As far as not going to the park, even though you want to, SOMETIMES i think as parents we got to deprive ourselves to make a point. Only you can decide if this is the right thing/time for that.

My dd is like this, she will eat 12 tomatoes or a whole cucumber, full jar of olives, full punnet of strawberries
I don't care that it is good for her, its just greedy and selfish.