My 10 year old daughter hide food

[ChezandLib]

My 10 year old, she doesn't steel food but she loves apples and I remind her to bring her rubbish ut of the room all the time.
But this is the forth time she puts her used Apple cores behind the sofa a we found 20 , then another time behind the tv we found 17 and then just recently behind the cupboard another 20.
Each time she is told and can't answer me why she does it? Apples are the worst ut crisp packets sweet wrappers etc.
Is this just her being lazy?

[Ashley_Jk]

Agreed. She'll probably not know why she's doing it, so there's no point asking her about it and reprimanding her. Probably it's just a temporary phase which will pass off as she grows older. However, for now, you could insist on her showing you every time she's eaten an apple (for instance) and then throwing the core in front of you into the dustbin. You could make it a rule that every time she eats an apple she has to come to you once she's finished. 3-4 times she's done it, she should be fine.

[RockRose]

Have you always had her,  or is she a foster/adopted child?  Hiding food,  or hiding garbage,  or hiding dirty laundry are things that kids in orphanages or who have had very rocky early childhoods often do.

Piling apple cores in a specific hidden place isn't really laziness - it's a desire to hide.  And she may not know why she's doing it.

If you've always had her from birth,  and she's had a comfortable,  loving,  positive home,  I don't know what might be causing this.  

How is she doing in school?