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Quote From: mandylee

I have a four year old step daughter who we have every second week-end, at home with her mother the child has full control and what she says go's. well at our house we have rules and they are to be followed I have two kids of my own so if you break rules for one you are breaking rules for everyone. When she started staying overnight (cause her mother wouldn't let her till this year my husband took her to court and got regular visits) she started peeing in her pants and peeing the bed this was new behavior for her and she didn't do it at home. We believed it was the stress of being here cause she didn't adjust well to her not having full control and following the rules. We finally got her to stop peeing her pants and in her bed and now she has started vomiting at meal times, it's not all the time but if she would like to be doing something else rather then meal she will eat two bites say she is full and when she is told she has to eat a little more she will take a bite then puke. we have tried multiple things to try to fix the problem and nothing works. first off she has been to the Dr and there is nothing medically wrong with her, we have let her pick what she wants to eat and sometimes that works and sometimes it doesn't. We are really stressed about this and don't know what to do to fix the problem she doesn't do this at home she only does it at our house and we believe it is because she is trying to gain control and we don't want to let her win that control cause then we are into a whole nothing game and we realize that but we don't know what to do to fix it