Emotionally traumatized child with... bath bomb

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My mum got my 3&5 year old each a cute character bath bomb along with their Christmas presents. They were delighted, they fought over who would get to use theirs in the bath first, I managed to get them to agree on one, they excitedly threw it into the bath...

... And I've had to deal with a good 45 minutes of emotional crying about it 'going away', mostly from 5 year old. (3 year old cried a bit but I suspect mostly copying and because the 5 year old kept insisting they had to say emotional 'goodbye's to the bath bomb).

They've had bath bombs before and knew what would happen, and have happily scoffed gingerbread men, chocolate Santa etc without being upset.

Should I have anticipated this level of upset?! What on earth am I going to do about the second bath bomb? (Keep it forever? Hide it and hope they forget?)

Sorry, OP, this did make me laugh. We had bath bombs too and DD was very pensive and solemn when the first one vanished. We got her some dinosaur egg ones that had a toy inside when they 'hatch' in the water and now she positively loves them disappearing!

Oh dear! The DRAMA!!! I have a DD5 and can imagine this exact scenario.

If that biscuit is for the five year old I quite agree!

The bath bomb with a toy inside is a genius suggestion! If I ever feel brave enough to use a bath bomb again I will definitely try that.

Well you callously melted a child's most valuable and beloved possession I'll bet you even drained the bathwater afterwards, you cruel and uncaring mother!

(I diagnose the 5yo with over-tiredness, I'm sure your children will magnanimously forgive you eventually )

Haha, this is precisely the sort of thing that would upset my 5 year old.
I managed to traumatise him with some balloons on his 4th birthday!

Hahahahaha! Bought my 3 year old a bath bomb and we exitedly put it in bath only to find to his absolute horror that it had turned the bath green 🤣 he was not happy!

Are they really crying about the bath bomb having gone away or could they be missing people you've spent time with over Xmas? My kids are very morose at the moment as they are missing the house guests we had (people staying over still being quite a novelty). I can imagine them losing their shit over an unrelated but symbolic small thing.

I can’t wait for my 5yo to get back to normal routine. She’s an emotional, overtired wreck tbh. I could easily see a bath bomb being the end of the world. She had a massive strop while swimming earlier that even made the lifeguard start laughing. It was just so funny in its ridiculousness. My 2yo has been stomping around saying it’s not fair. We don’t know what the ‘it’ is as she’s just copying the older one.