My five-year-old suddenly started refusing to eat at the table. Instead, she’d take her plate to the bathroom, lock the door, and eat alone. At first, I thought it was just a phase, but after a month of this, I set up a hidden camera to find out why.
What I saw shocked me: in the middle of eating, she declared, “That’s it! Alex gets nothing!” Turns out her older brother had been stealing food from her plate, and she was simply protecting her meals. My fears of something serious melted into relief—it was just sibling rivalry, not something darker.
