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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Why are you posting for advice if anyone with any experience with food issues is immediately disqualified from giving any kind of useful input?  What on earth are you looking for?  Everyone agrees that you are approaching this all wrong.  Please educate yourself on the damaging use of food as punishment/reward.  Your daughter may not have an eating disorder, but she is certainly is at risk for one.

Please find a therapist.  I hope that you can prove everyone here wrong, and that there is nothing wrong with you and your kid, and we've just grossly misunderstood your parenting technique.

And BTW, you realize that there are many, many people telling you to tread carefully, right?  It's not just one person ("harpy") fueling five pages of banter.[/quote]

As I've said, the many (three?) people on here are not more informed than the people who know, teach and care for my DD. I'm posting on here to find some useful information and, hopefully, anecdotes from other parents whose kids did this and it turned out to be a passing phase! Nothing would provide more relief. And if this was so clearly an issue requiring immediate therapy, why aren't we hearing that advice from the professionals that work with kids and know the signs? Why are they telling us they don't think this looks like anything serious based on their many years of experience? If it's so obvious to anyone who doesn't need therapy, why isn't it obvious to them, the people who actually know our family?

I am not interested in proving you or anyone else wrong. This is not about you. Well, your comments are, but my question was not.

But since you asked me, why are you on here? You clearly are not here to offer useful advice. I'm sure you know that the fastest way to end effective communication with someone is to start flame throwing and calling names. And accusing me of trying to harm my child? What kind of person enjoys making such accusations? It doesn't take therapy to know that such an accusation will only result in anger, but you did it almost right off the bat. Which means that you weren't trying to communicate with me. So what were you trying to do? It's come across like venting anger. Maybe these are all things you wished you'd said to whomever you blame for not handling your food issues better when you were younger, but it's time to find another (hopefully more productive) outlet.  I would suggest that if you had severe food issues, maybe you should avoid offering advice to other people on that issue. You have trouble doing so in a reasoned manner. And it also makes you more prone to jump to conclusions if you think you see anything that parallels your own experiences. [/quote]

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