where you could be punished for going into the food No, my father just shamed me if I did. Yet my parents kept bringing junk/snack foods into the house and indulging in the same behavior of eating for reasons other than hunger. I’ve had to watch my weight my entire life. I think it was partly due to my father’s nasty comments, seeing how my parents used food, and genetics. My parents were emotionally retarded people who shouldn’t have been raising kids. To be fair, talking about parenting, emotional health, and talking about nutrition were not things during that time. Two damaged people doing the best they could during an ignorant time.