She ate all the biscuits

[Imissmusic]

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

Mine would too (he told me what he had at a party recently and it was an obscene amount of sugar) except he knows he isn’t allowed to just eat sweet treats like that at home. It’s been a long while of enforcing that since babies - sounds draconian but he can grab fruit, or crackers etc anytime and does. Sweet treats is a one or two a day when offered kind of scenario. It works.

"It’s the fact she rooted around for them" then up your game Mum.

You can surely outwit a wee 7 year old lassie with a sweet tooth @Imissmusic

eta; if it really, seriously bothers you

Yes she needs telling of for being greedy and not sharing. She is not the only person in the house

She literally just bought them for her to have some today 😂

She's 7 and the OP presumably left her reading, playing, watching tv for twenty minutes.

I find it quite strange if a seven year old couldn't be left in a different room without being fully supervised at all times in her own home!

It’s more that it is excessive and a bit selfish, good to teach against that at a young age no?

It moves it away from bad foods too - Let’s all share the biscuits and save some for tomorrow.

I imagine that poster isn’t 6.

My 6 yr old asks if she can eat fruit - generally the answer is yes, but sometimes it’s no because dinner is 2 mins away, or there’s only one apple left and I need it to send in with her packed lunch so she’ll have to have something else now instead.

7 is old enough to remember they were treat for everyone and she should have shared.

Honestly, one thing I have learned is that we are not all the same, us adults or children, how we behave, what food we really really like or whatever. I don't think it's odd at all. She's just 7, she is possibly just one of the cheeky ones with a really really strong sweet tooth. I wouldn't label any of this behavioural issues or parental issues like folk are doing, she's a kid, she's still learning.

Golly gosh! Say it again why don’t you??! Let me take some heat off of the poor OP (even thought it’s ALL HER FAULT right?) and tell you we never have biscuits in the house 😱

Awful huh?

This thread’s quite the dripfeed. There’s a big difference between a kid eating a whole packet of biscuits once, and a kid who is, apparently, doing this all the time.

I think it’s odd that your 7-year-old child, according to your follow up posts, frequently has the opportunity to go through cupboards looking for biscuits and cakes and eats the entire packet in one go.

You sound really passive about this, like it’s just a thing that happens and you can’t do anything about it. She’s seven. Surely you notice if she wanders off into the kitchen and starts ransacking cupboards and then sits there eating a whole box of cakes?!

No, my child would never help herself to shite food unless she asked and was given permission

They are called shite food In our house never treats, treats sounds interesting and forbidden rather than giving them the correct name pure processed shite

The fact you had to hide it in the first place is a problem but the fact you are hiding it from a 7 year old show s there is a big problem

Oh for goodness sake! Just be pleased she enjoyed them?

I agree, the issue is that the OP's Dd knew the rest of the biscuits were meant for another day and were for everyone in the family, but she decided to search for them and eat them all anyway. It doesn't matter whether the food in question was a dessert or fruit or milk or bread, it's the fact that she did what she wanted and ignored what she had been told. Would everyone here think it ok if your dc had finished every bit of milk or bread or cereal, leaving nothing for family breakfast the next day? I doubt it.

Maybe my kids did at that age too.
They are teens now and certainly don't.
Sometimes we fret about very litlte things that seem very silly in hindsight.

No you can’t be cross with her. Be cross with yourself for not finding a better hiding place. I have scoffed a whole packet of biscuits myself lots of times. Can’t resist chocolate chip cookies and one or two is never enough. Nom Nom Nom 😋 !

Yes but mine wouldn’t! This is the point, her diet isn’t restricted, it’s healthy and balanced it’s just she loves all that stuff, so to leave three packs around would mean they’d be gone pretty quickly, hence me not doing it every night. We have what we fancy and nothing is off limits but I don’t tend to buy any crisps, biscuits and sweets as part of the weekly shop-should I be? Really questioning if I’m doing this wrong

I’d not make a big deal of the amount she ate, but that she did it without asking. Someone else might have wanted a biscuit and now there are none left. So the focus is more on having good manners rather than the amount she ate.

I think the fact she has told you about it says something here. She, for some reason, wants you to know that she purposefully hunted for the biscuits, binged them and isn’t feeling in the wrong about it.

Does she think the household is too strict around food? Does she resent you hiding food? Is she often hungry?

She shouldn't have to hde them. I don't hide food my children know they need to ask.

You're right, there is a big difference. The difference is she didn't eat a whole packet of biccies.

How many biscuits was it OP?

If they were Maryland cookies there’s something about them and it’s very hard to stop!

But why do you not have a system where she needs to ask before having a sweet treat? That’s one thing I see as really missing here. Does she know she would be expected to ask you to have sweets, biscuits or chocolate? Mine would never because that has been instilled from a very young age. You can grab fruit or crackers etc but treats are not a free for all.

Both of my DC (5&3) have a 'treat box' they can keep chocolate/sweets in when they get them (I usually get them a small treat like a kinder egg or a mini tube of smarties when I do the big shop once a week). They're both capable of understanding that if they eat some they can save the rest. Older one is less likely to eat it all in one go but the younger one sometimes would, if he does it's not a big deal, it just means there's no more treats till next week, and he's already learning to self regulate a bit from his big bro. Next time you get a treat, you could allocate your daughter her share for her to access freely and let her learn self regulation. That way there's no hiding food (there has to be a clear message that stealing other family members' share isn't acceptable of course, if she'd be likely to do that!)