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[quote=Anonymous]Skimmed through all the vitriol on this thread... so might have missed something.

I wanted to chime in and say to OP that you should absolutely not punish your kid for his mistake, but you should sit down with him and discuss how hard it is to stop at just 4 or 5 Oreos. Discuss how hard it is to have a healthy diet when fat, salt, sugar, just taste so good to us. Tell him that next time he should only buy a single serving or two of junk food at the store.

Also, I would recommend letting him pick a recipe and make a homemade dessert every weekend (with your help, of course). Match a batch of cookies or brownies, bake a pie or cake, whatever recipe he wants to try. Then show him how to have 1/3 or half of the dessert (say 4 or 5 cookies for each family member) over the weekend and freeze the rest to eat after dinner one night during the week. If he wants to eat all 5 of his cookies on Saturday, then fine. If he wants to save some for Sunday, then show him how to store them away in a ziploc or container. And go out for ice cream once a month (or buy stuff at the store for ice cream sundaes).[/quote]

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