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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If I remember you, OP, your post last year centered around the fact that your daughter always steals food and money for food.  Nothing else.  Is this still the case?[/quote]

Yes, I thought I remembered her too!! Something about she steals milk too..? Or stole the food FROM the lunches? That was a pretty hot thread, IIRC, and most of the opinions seemed to be that Mom was restricting her too much at home and so she was stealing at school to indulge. [/quote]

Yep, and we spoke to her doctor about whether we were restricting her food too much. Her doctor's take was that she's just a kid who enjoys eating, that eventually she'll learn to eat less on her own, but that we should not allow her to eat herself until she's stuffed all the time (which she still does, especially if she likes the dish).

When last year's incident of stealing broke out, we increased her lunch sizes and added two fruits in addition to dessert. We also gave her the option of buying her snacks in the cafeteria a couple of times a week instead of having a homemade made dessert included (thinking it might be the novelty of buying things on her own that she was missing). She has insisted (until now) that she prefers the homemade desserts. And she often brings home partially eaten lunches and uneaten apples and bananas.

This is not an issue of hunger. It's lack of impulse control and lack of consideration for the other kids whose money she stole. The kicker is that she's got at least $50 sitting in her piggy bank in her room and we've repeatedly told her she can take $1 a day to buy a snack from the cafeteria if she wants, instead of the cookies from home. She hasn't wanted to do that. Apparently, stealing other kids' money is better because it results in two desserts.  [/quote]

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