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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The worse scenario is when you send your kid to someone’s house from about 10am to 3pm and it turns out they didn’t feed your child lunch and that the kids only had a small snack. I had to stop doing play dates with a family who never fed my child. I knew the mom had had eating disorder issues, so the whole situation felt too bizarre to get involved in. [/quote]

My sister had friends-twin girls-who lived on the same block and always came to our house begging for food. The mom also had an eating disorder. I learned when I babysat them that she was severely restricting food and only doing two small snack-sized meals a day. The dad was gone on travel a lot.

My parents’ solution was always a snack or to whip up spaghetti or something and let them eat as much as they wanted. They are now older and have eating disorders also. It was obvious they were being underfed and not like, greedy gluttons.

I’d always plan on at least carrots w/hummus or apples with peanut butter level of snacking or, if it is a ling play date, a sandwhich.[/quote]

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