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

This and I find it telling that the adult downstairs with her had no clue. She may be attention seeking too.

It does seem pretty naughty and also selfish to eat them all. She actually had to search for them so they were obviously not left out for her to eat.

She often says she feels sick 🙄

Agreed. She finished off however many were left after everyone had had a couple after dinner. Ok, she ate more than is ideal, but she didn’t polish off a whole pack all on her own.

No you are not. Please don't take all these comments to heart. You just have a cheeky soul with a sweet tooth who happens to love naughty food. She's only 7, for goodness sake and am pretty sure there are children up and down this country being normal children and pinching the good stuff out the kitchen.

Please go easy on yourself. By all means tell your daughter that it's not acceptable to take without asking but it's all a learning curve for her. She's only young after all and this is all part of growing up.

Perhaps she's hungry, if she's slim and active? Can she get seconds of meals if she wants them? I have a sugar addiction myself and find it really hard to stop eating sweet things if they are there but its more tempting if I havent had enough to eat and dont feel full. Could she go and get an apple if she wants one?

The biscuits werent just for her, they were supposed to be shared by the family. Your DD is greedy and selfish

She's 7.

Judgemental unkind comment.

My daughter is slightly older and she would come up and ask if she could have more and I would expect her to ask, so yes I would be a bit cross. I wouldn’t need to hide them though because she asks for food, I suppose that means you allow her to get her own snacks etc otherwise there would be no need to hide them. So, I suppose it’s a bit hypocritical to be cross that she did something that you usually allow her to do, the only difference being she had to look harder, she wouldn’t necessarily know they had been hidden.

She’s only 7! Of course she shouldn’t be doing this. I’m astounded by the responses you’ve had OP. Tell her it’s carrot sticks for the foreseeable!

This is it, I normally don’t
We don’t do dessert after dinner because we have as and when, when out or a chocolate bar when shopping with me, a kinder egg off dad on a Friday. It’s not loads but it’s enough that she shouldn’t be craving things surely?

Phew I was hoping there would be at least one measured comment amongst all this hysteria. Hopefully OP reads this.

My eldest daughter does this. She has adhd and struggles with impulse control. We ended up having to hide stuff because there would be nothing left for others in the family, she would eat their share too. We did this because of the behaviour, not that the hiding caused the behaviour. She's 14 now. She searches the cupboards, takes food, and also helps herself to my makeup and beauty products. We can explain it's not acceptable, we can get angry, we can give consequences, nothing really works. We bought a lock box and she found online how to crack the code.
My youngest isn't like this at all, she will ask if she wants something and would never just help herself to other people's things.

My day it was pocket money. We bought sweets on a Saturday with pocket money and once it was gone, it was gone. It's a good idea to self regulate for sure.

I haven’t? Did you read my posts about what we normally eat? Nothing is out of bounds, we have a balanced diet, but if it’s there she wants the whole lot.

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?

News at ten. Little girl has sweet tooth.

like pringles, once you pop...

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.

No, I haven’t…? Read my posts. I don’t buy a dessert for every night or as a rule by crisps and biscuits every week in the shop, but she has food like this fairly regularly

No, but I probably should! I love food-not a sweet tooth though, could do with losing a bit, no issues with food I don’t think

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.

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.

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.

You’re on the wind up here…