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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Give him a space for where he can ut his snacks that the dog can't get into.

If he can't comply with that then he loses the snack  money  privilege.[/quote]

I don’t want them in the house all the time. If he wants to buy a candy bar after school and eat it before he comes home, I do not care. But I don’t want a box of candy bars hanging out in the pantry. Hell, if he’s at home on the weekend and feels the need for a candy bar and wants to ride his bike somewhere to buy one, I don’t care. I fundamentally believe that when junk food is constantly accessible, people will eat more of it than they otherwise would. If you have to go buy it every time, you’ll eat less of it. [/quote]

Ok. Keep doing what you’re doing. Your kid is well on his way to an eating disorder and learning how much nicer you are to him when he lies to you. Excellent parenting. [/quote]

Actually, he’s only in trouble for the hiding/sneaking/dishonesty. We had nice and hopefully productive talk this evening about the issue, and I’m hopeful that it’s resolved. I’ve been surprised by the responses here because I just can’t see how this approach I’ve laid out is particularly restrictive. If I said I expected my kid to spend 80% of his weekend doing something other than video games and limit video game play to 20%, I doubt I’d get this kind of pushback. But where we’re talking about the consumption of junk food, something we likely all agree is unhealthy, I apparently can’t reasonably expect anything other than sneaky, dishonest behavior. Odd. [/quote]

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