Today, I learned that my daughter will literally eat until she is sick to keep her father and brothers from getting her dessert. I also learned that my boys are sympathetic vomiters. All five of them. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I discovered that when one of my toddlers throws up, the other sympathy-pukes too, and that this continues until they're both empty. I guess my car is going to stink of vomit for a while. FML
Today, I told my five year-old daughter that no, she could not have ice cream for breakfast. She retaliated by pooping in the living room and smearing it on the walls. My in-laws, whom I've been trying to impress for ages, are visiting today. FML
Today, my in-laws came for dinner. My 5-year-old son chose that as the perfect time to say, "Good girls always swallow!" when my daughter coughed up some of her food. I have no idea where he heard it, but my mother-in-law blamed me, and my wife had to convince her not to call CPS on me. FML
Today, my mom is furious that I won’t let her babysit my kids anymore. Twice they’ve come home with vomiting and diarrhea after she let them eat nothing but desserts the entire day. Her excuse? Grandmas are supposed to spoil their grandkids. Spoil, not give them diabetes. FML
Today, I came down with food poisoning of some sort. After hours of scrambling to the toilet to vomit and empty my bowels, my three-year-old daughter got fed up and is now trying to potty-train me. FML
Today, I discovered that my daughter refuses to eat, but not because she's anorexic. Apparently, her health class has learned about the digestive system and now she refuses to "take part in something so gross." FML
Today, my five-year-old daughter told me she was going to throw up. I told her to rush to the bathroom. I followed her a few seconds later, only to find her sitting on the toilet and vomiting onto the floor. FML
Today, I found out that, when mad at us, my son picks the tops off his shoulder-pimples and sprinkles them in our food. FML
Today, my 7-month-old spit up on the floor. My 3-year-old puts their hands in it, sniffed, and puked. Then sticks their hands in their own puke, sniffed, and puked again. FML
Today, it's day four of liquid ass and violent hurling after I hosted a birthday party for my daughter, and one of the kids brought a stomach virus rather than a present. Yesterday my daughter started with the violent vomiting too. Everything smells like vomit in my home. Yay me! FML
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GhostFox 34
That sounds very much like a problem that you and your husband have created. Either you aren't punishing them for eating her dessert after you've said she can have dessert, or you're giving her portion sizes proportionally too large for her, and withholding dessert when she naturally can't finish it. With how it's phrased, it sounds like you are one of those types of parents that force their child to eat everything on their plate, or a large portion of it, something that has been scientifically proven to cause children to develop an unhealthy relationship with food. Either way, you've managed to give your child food anxiety. Congratulations. You should work on fixing the damage you've done before it turns into a full scale eating disorder. Hint: Punishing her for overeating in an attempt to "earn" her dessert isn't the correct way to do so.
Chinaski76 15
Wait—how did you come to that conclusion?
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GhostFox 34
That sounds very much like a problem that you and your husband have created. Either you aren't punishing them for eating her dessert after you've said she can have dessert, or you're giving her portion sizes proportionally too large for her, and withholding dessert when she naturally can't finish it. With how it's phrased, it sounds like you are one of those types of parents that force their child to eat everything on their plate, or a large portion of it, something that has been scientifically proven to cause children to develop an unhealthy relationship with food. Either way, you've managed to give your child food anxiety. Congratulations. You should work on fixing the damage you've done before it turns into a full scale eating disorder. Hint: Punishing her for overeating in an attempt to "earn" her dessert isn't the correct way to do so.
DraconicFeline 31
Oooor... it could just be a case of sibling rivalry gone a little overboard. There’s not nearly enough information here to make a snap judgment like that.
GhostFox 34
If the girl's father is participating in the SIBLING rivalry, there's more issues at hand than harmful overeating and sympathy vomiting. Even if it is just "sibling rivalry"- a concept which is bullshit by the way- overeating to the point of vomiting isn't something that develops overnight, which means that chances are extremely high that OP has known that the men in the family have been eating the daughter's dessert and done nothing about it, which is just as bad. There isn't a way to spin this that takes the blame off OP and the husband for being shit parents.
DraconicFeline 31
You’re assuming this is a regular thing, which I highly doubt given that OP only just learned about the sympathy vomiting. For all you know, this was a one-time joke/taunt that got out of hand (“we’re all gonna eat your dessert if you don’t finish dinner, ha ha”) - unfortunate and unpleasant, but not necessarily indicative of shitty parenting.
PissyBitch Daily 13
You said it best. OP, stop force-feeding your kid. She'll get fat. Portion out the desserts before hand so that it's assured she'll get her share when she's ready to eat it. And control the boys of your family. If they're teasing her, it's your job to put a stop to it.
GhostFox 34
DraconicFeline- the FATHER and brothers used her not finishing her dinner as a threat, meaning that she tried to eat EVERYTHING ALREADY ON HER PLATE. If the amount of food on her plate was enough to trigger vomiting, it was too much food to be on her plate in the first plate. The fact that she ALSO fully believed that her father and brothers would eat her dessert and that her mother WOULD NOT stop them from doing so indicates that it has happened before. This was just the first time that the daughter has vomited- at least, in sight of the rest of the family.
Cali 57
Try to shake off a few assumptions and reread this FML with an open mind! All we know concretely is that she didn't want them to have her dessert and that she threw up because she overate. Couldn't this mean that they were just in line for her leftovers (no "threats") and that she loves sweets so much that she wanted to finish it all herself? It doesn't mean they forced her to overeat! The size of her portions might not be bad - maybe she ate a lot at school, had a big afternoon snack with a friend, or had an upset stomach already! I had an insane sweet tooth as a kid and probably went almost as far once or twice. My family wasn't abusive at all and I definitely didn't have food anxiety. I just loved eating!
DoomedGemini 38
It IS a regular thing to do things like what they're saying, though. My mom has talked about a family member not letting her leave the table unless she ate the FAT from the meal(she never did her parents came home and weren't having it) perhaps they're a bit aggressive but..its common to do shit like this to kids and it did sound like the daughter was given reason to worry. It's also not uncommon for people to eat other's food. I've had people-including a stepfather- take food that's supposed to be mine. So let's put it this way. If this was due to the daughters own panic with no given worry- try to reassure her it won't get eaten/she doesn't have to eat so much. If she was given reason- totally with Ghost here. Even if she wasn't given reason here- try to see why she thinks her brothers and father will steal things that are hers. Is it a normal occurrence elsewhere?
Tripartita 45
On the upside, you can can put a cool spin on this and say you’ve raised a family of gastric empaths.
Lobby_Bee 18
You raised your daughter to hate men?
Chinaski76 15
Wait—how did you come to that conclusion?
exileonmainst 16
"She looks ill, should we take her plate away?" "No, I'm sure she's fine.."
tonyfan00 38
If this much vomiting happens over desert then I can't imagine what happens when someone gets sick and starts vomiting regularly...
Jasper Long 2
Yay for bad parenting!
Dominion10 4
Stop having kids for chrissake,