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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Pennywoloz]I have a 12 year old girl and she is constantly getting into snacks. For instance yesterday I went grocery shopping and bought groceries for the week and I [b]forgot to hide the snacks when I got home[/b]. I went to get ready for bed and noticed one of the snack boxes open and the whole box is gone. I look in her room and under her bed are all the wrappers. She was already asleep, so I asked her about it this morning and she literally looked at me and said that she didn't do it. This happens all the time. If I don't lock up the snacks, she'll get into them. And she is not snack deprived. She gets a snack to take to school, one after school, and one before bed. I don't know if this means anything to what she is doing, but she does have high functioning autism and ADHD.
Please no bashing. I don't know what to do anymore.

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First problem is that you should not have bought any snack at all.  She is impaired because of her autism. As a parent, you have to model better behavior.  Learn to cook healthy meals and involve her.  You need to step up a bit more than what you are doing now.  Give her back the control and that means teaching her to cook or assemble healthy meals.  For example - teach her to eat an apple with some plain yogurt. Take a celery stick and out a teaspoon of peanut butter and raisins on it.  There is so much you can teach her. [/quote]

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