She ate all the biscuits

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I got a pack of chocolate chip cookies for today after dinner for everyone to have a few-Dd has a balanced diet but we don’t have a dessert or biscuits, crisps etc every night or in the house that often-more on weekends or if we bake something.
I hid the rest of the biscuits away for another day.
I went to have a shower, when Dd came up to bed, she told me she looked everywhere for them, found them and ate them.

Would you be cross? She’s 7

Mother of four here. Just explain a few things:-
a) how many calories are in one packet and what she could have eaten instead
b) that she doesn’t live alone and it is a bit selfish to eat them all herself (so nobody else can have any). It’s better to share.
c) that eating too much sugar is bad for her health (and her teeth)
d) that if she was hungry, she could have asked you for something else.

I’m sure you can think of many other reasons and logical arguments to explain that it’s not ok without going it to it being greedy etc.!

My kid did that kind of thing around that age and I was quite worried and angry about it as she took cooking chocolate and hid it in her room! It seemed a bit sneaky and not even all that nice chocolate! She was overweight at that age according to the school check-up and I was pretty worried. It's the taking it all and not wanting to share that's a bit sad. She's ok now but we had a big chat about it all and why she did it.

My kids would of expected a telling off for this, if they finished a packet and didnt share.
But our allocation of sweet stuff is quite high compared to yours

So many people hiding food from the kids 🤣🤣🤣 my kids know not to help themselves to unhealthy food without asking first. I don’t need to hide biscuits etc (my children are 6 and 7). However, if one of them had ate a whole packet that they didn’t know was off limits I would tell them not to help themselves to biscuits etc and that eating that much could make you feel sick. No need to go overboard. Children need to learn that just because there are cakes, biscuits in the cupboard doesn’t mean they all need to be eaten. If you don’t learn that as a child you will carry it on into adulthood.

A whole packet of biscuits isn’t sensible for anyone. It’s greedy a bit greedy and selfish imo. OP, I must admit I’d be irritated by this.

Me too!
Also ice lollies in empty frozen pea bags.

She didn't eat a whole packet of biscuits though.

It would bother me. Hiding things along with a child who searches for them until she finds them, realising they are hidden. She then eats them all up and tells you she has. There is something very wrong with all of this.

She’s 7, I wouldn’t be getting into calories or sugar content with her. Kids eat things, it’s easy to get carried away, cookies are like crack for kids.

OP. Just tell her that they were supposed to be to share, but don’t be too cross with her. I am sure there are many adults that would have scoffed a pack of biscuits in a evening without a thought.

She ate all that were left!

This. My mother hid anything sweet or snacky because she was so worried about us getting fat. She made sweets the forbidden fruit so of course we wanted them all the time and searched high and low. As a parent I didn't do that at all and my kids are thin and athletic with very healthy attitudes toward food since nothing was forbidden or hidden.

I would be cross, yes. But DS(7) would never take food without asking if he could have it first, it just wouldn’t even occur to him. We have a fruit bowl that’s open access for snacks in between meals and he still checks it’s ok to have e.g. an apple, incase it’s close to a meal time. I would however caveat that we don’t limit “treat” foods at all, he has a small dessert every day after dinner, whether it be a couple of squares of chocolate, ice cream, rice pudding, or similar. He can have these irrespective of how much of his main meal he chooses to eat, as we also don’t have clean plate rules because I think it’s unhealthy.

I think you should be concerned about her eating that much sugar at one time as it leads to poor health in the long run. Maybe talk to her pediatrician about what’s driving her craving for sugar. In the meantime, the only solution is not to have it in the home. Try bringing home only a serving for each family member and leave it at that. It’s more expensive I know but it’s not something you do daily.

You shouldn't have to hide food!

I'd tell DD she should have asked first, but not make a big deal out of it.

Yes I know.

Was replying to another poster who was talking about her child.

When I was a kid (I'm in my 60s now), we asked for food, and I was similar with my kids.

A lot of people scoff (ha, ha) at this, but no one ever ate a full packet of anything.

Some stuff-fruit, yoghurt, bread-have what you want.

But even then consider others as well!

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Yep, me too. We were allowed one chocolate biscuit and one digestive a day and we had to ask, not help ourselves.

Perhaps there's a bit of a feast or famine dynamic going on which makes it harder to self-regulate? Not that I can talk about biscuit wisdom. I never did manage to teach DS not to disappear into his lair with the remainder of a packet of biscuits.

Do you have squirrel ancestry, by the way?

Well if she's sick, that will teach her a lesson,

Errm no ,shes 7

Biscuits were hidden, not out

This so reminds me of what I did with my boys. I was always paranoid about their teeth, so they wouldn't get fizzy juice or anything, just water/milk or a wee drop diluting juice. When my oldest started earning his own money it was bloody sweet energy drinks he was buying, still does 10yrs on.
Please don't deprive your dd a sweet treat.
Heed my error 😁

Please don't deprive your dd a sweet treat.

She wasn't deprived!

She'd already had some & then decided to have the rest!