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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How can food belong to someone else within a family? Other than teaching them that it's not polite to have the last piece of dad's favorite cake, I think your rules are very rigid and they are rebelling.

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[b]Of course food can belong to someone else in the family. If I order takeout and don't finish it, I put it in the fridge and my husband respects that it is my food. [/b]

When I was a child, my mother and I would bake chocolate chip cookies. My father would eat not only his share of the cookies, but also help himself to mine after he'd finished his. He said he "couldn't help it". I, a child, could control my intake, and certainly never took any of his cookies, so I was not impressed with his behavior.

From OP's description, it sounds like the father has to lock up his ice cream in order to have [i]any[/i] ice cream to eat, not that he lords it over the kids with his rocky road while they sit, bereft and ice cream-less, watching him savor it, a limp rutabaga on their plate.[/quote]

This is a different story altogether.  When I buy food it is for everyone. Unless we are talking about a baby who can't eat honey or food than no food should be off limits. [/quote]

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