Moms and Dads of kids with ADHD understand that sometimes they get hungry late at night. Or, in the middle of the night, since their medication is an appetite suppressant. As it wears off, their little tummies grumble and -- finally -- they're hungry!
Our policy is she can get a snack from the "healthy food drawer" in the fridge or a cereal bar from the pantry. She can eat (without waking) us at any hour -- as long as she eats something healthy and dines in the kitchen, not her bed.
You can imagine, she leaves plenty of evidence that she disregards those rules occasionally. A few examples, most from the last week:
1. Finger swipes through the frosting in a birthday cake that was in the garage freezer.
2. Crumbs in her bed. Our schnauzer Yadi typically sniffs out her room and finds remnants in the carpet in the morning. Too bad for her, he's a dead giveaway of the rule breaking.
3. Powered donut crumbs on the counter tops, plus a trail around the foyer toward her room. Extra donuts wrapped up in napkins in her room.
4. The brown edges of cornbread crumbled off into a pile on her desk. (She doesn't like anything that appears to be burnt, which includes anything that's brown. Also, textures can turn her off to certain foods, too.)
And just today while I was in her room to get and wash her sheets....
5. A package of cream cheese.
Some people need a glass of water by their bed but I'm oh-so proud that my daughter goes for a "bednight snack" (my kids called it this when they were wee tots!) that's a little more hearty. She was offended when I said it had to be pitched. Unlike a glass of water, cream cheese can't be your standby on the bedside table all week long, sweetie! Gross!
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