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Marylee, your post isn't about leftovers, it's about the same unresolved boundary issues with just a different situation. I think you get tough but after a while you cave. Your kids know this, and they are out to work your very last nerve, in order to get what ever it is they want at the moment. You have to be strong.
Now repeat after me, "No means no!" Louder!
I don't think she gets tough. I think she gets nasty.
Does anyone here remember the days when ALL food was off-limits unless it was prepared and served for meals? Kids didn't use to have free access to the kitchen so this wasn't an issue. Three meals and an after-school snack was it for most children. Funny how obesity wasn't really a problem then either.
Oh well, nowadays it would probably be termed child neglect to keep children from eating whatever they liked whenever they liked.
Ok, maybe this is petty, but when we go out to restaurants with the kids, I seldom finish my meal. I just don't eat a whole lot at once, so I take my leftovers home. the kids get way more than I do at the restaurant, anyways.
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I hate leftovers. You can have mine. Problem solved...
I honestly can't imagine being upset over this. It's not like some house guest cleaned out your fridge. In our home, the kitchen and everything in it is for the entire family's benefit. There is no mine and that includes leftovers.
I'm 50, and we ate what we were fed, for as long as we were living in our parents' house. The refrigerator wasn't "Anon's shelf, do not touch" or "Dad's drawer, do not touch." It was "This is what mom bought, or brought home from the take-out joint, and don't touch it til she asks you to help her cook, because the kitchen is MOM's domain and when you move out you can make the rules about your refrigerator but until then, keep your grubby hands away from the fridge."
We ate three meals a day, whether or not we liked the entree. If we were hungry between meals there was a very limited menu to choose from, mostly fruit or crackers. Cookies and sweets were rare in our house.
But, I have no attachment to food. I can't imagine getting upset over leftovers, whether or not I had ordered them. If I knew my capacity for a meal was less than my companions, I would order less. Leftovers never taste as good as the fresh entree anyway,
How old are you all? I am 45 and my parents let us eat whenever we wanted to eat.
In my early 30s.
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