She Threw Her Dinner In The Garbage Instead Of Giving It To Her Stepdaughter Because Her Stepdaughter Always Touches Her Food And Knows It Grosses Her Out
As many of us know, it takes some kids a little longer than others to learn proper manners, especially regarding food and eating at the table. Sometimes, there’s nothing worse than when you’re eating with a kid, and they put their little hands all over everyone’s food!
One woman recently snapped at her stepdaughter, who’s been purposefully putting her hands on her portion of food so that she won’t eat it and end up giving it to her.
She’s married and has two daughters with her husband. One is her 12-year-old stepdaughter, Hailie, whom her husband had during his previous relationship, and the other is her two-month-old baby, Hannah.
Until two weeks ago, after giving birth to Hannah, she could hardly keep food down other than crackers. She’d feel too sick, which her doctor said may have been on account of her adjusting to feeding the baby and that her loss of appetite was normal.
Still, she always wanted to try and eat, so any time she made a hot meal for her husband and Hailie, she’d be sure to leave an extra portion for herself to try. However, Hailie would always mess up her plans to eat.
“Hailie always ate my portion before leaving the table,” she said.
“She would see it set out on a plate for me [and] I would try picking at, but as soon as she touched it, I would stop picking at it, and she would just take over. I spoke to her about it a few times because I won’t eat anything that another person has touched. It grosses me out. So, she knew [but] she just didn’t care to stop.”
Hailie would get defensive whenever she told her not to touch her food because she said it didn’t look like she would eat it anyway.
When her husband tried to intervene, he told her she should start making more food, as Hailie was still “starving” after eating her portion and needed an extra helping.
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However, she knows Hailie gets plenty of food and snacks throughout the day. She’s been to a nutritionist and is in great health, so she doesn’t understand why she feels the need to steal her food.
Recently, she’s gotten more of an appetite and has been ready to eat the food she makes for the family. The other night, she made lasagna for everyone, and there should have been enough to have leftovers after everyone had a portion. However, her husband ended up having two portions.
So, when she got up to feed the baby after she finished making dinner, her portion was left in the pan.
“When I came back a half hour later, Hailie was forking the last portion out of the pan using her fingers,” she recalled.
“So, she touched it [and] I wouldn’t eat it.”
Over their last few family dinners, Hailie has continued to find ways to touch her food with her hands so that she couldn’t eat it and would have to hand it over to her.
The other night, she made Hailie and her husband some cheeseburgers. Since she doesn’t like cheeseburgers, she made herself two hot dogs.
While she was trying to eat the hot dogs, Hailie reached over and picked one up off her plate, claiming to check if the bun was moldy.
Then, Hailie looked at her and said, “Guess you’re not gonna eat that now, so I can have it if you want.”
She felt so fed up with Hailie’s games that she took her plate from the table and chucked her hot dogs in the trash so no one could eat them. Hailie began crying and said she didn’t mean to upset her; she was just hungry.
Her husband began yelling at her and called her childish for wasting food. He also told her that while he understands Hailie’s behavior is frustrating, she didn’t have to “stoop” to her level.
Should she feel bad for throwing out the hot dogs, or did Hailie deserve to be reprimanded?
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