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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So you gave him money to spend on his trip, he stayed under budget, but you're mad because he spent it on food you didn't approve of?

[b]How much of this is because of your own hangups over food and eating?[/b][/quote]

a lot.

but PP is right, this thread doesn't warrant this much attention, but thx for all who posted.

OP out.[/quote]

In this case, your own issues with food are hurting your child, and they might even lead to repeating the cycle of an unhealthy relationship with food.

For a boy that age, what he is ate on a fun field trip is not going to change anything, nutritionally, and you need to give him some freedom, hard as it is. I was raised in a house where there was such an emphasis on not being allowed to buy outside junky food or anything my parents looked down on (no school lunch, etc.) that it led to a really unhealthy fear of certain foods as "bad" and a lot of issues, including trust issues. I literally would think "at least it's just cigarettes and booze and
 not Sonic I was caught with!"[/quote]

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