Do you buy your kids Easter eggs?

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And if so how old are they?

Mine and nearly 2 and 4. I’ve never got them eggs and tbh I don’t really give them all that we get given. They get given so many 6+ each and they are only small. They get the odd one but they get so many. DH and I tend to scoff them instead… In fact I’m eating one right now.

Yes, it really has. It's starting to become an uncomfortable read.

We are millionaires

There’s been a lot of leaps and assumptions on this thread but I think alwaysginplease has leapt the furthest.

Goes to show that money isn't everything. And you can have more money than sense.

Indeed. Millionaire's apparently. No moral
Compass whatsoever but plenty of £ 🙄

Her response was let them sack me. Do you think that's a caring loving foster parent? With the they can go without attitude. No Santa, no Easter Eggs. No fun. Do you think that's the right attitude for an FP?

And some will be contributing to eating disorders by spouting nonsense like this and losing the plot over their kid eating chocolate.

Eating disorders aren’t fun either as you know.

I think there are many more ways to be kind to
and nurture a child than Easter eggs and presents. I think the children who find themselves in her care have experienced imaginable neglect and loss and the lack of an egg isn’t going to factor that high for them.

Obesity is an eating disorder too you know?

It’s not a kindness to give kids a totally unsuitable diet, tooth decay and weight issues. Having established my children have each been gifted two months of their recommended sugar intake the fact you think I should allow them to gorge on the lot says more about your judgement than mine.

Nope. They're 5&6 and get an egg from grandparents and aunties and friends of the family. They've had 5 each this year. No need for any more!

Obesity isn’t always caused by an eating disorder, whereas eating disorders are always eating disorders. As a pp said, your views on this seem unhealthy and skewed and that’s probably because you have had you own difficult relationship with food with disordered eating.

I very much doubt you have a healthy relationship with food if you think that amount of sugar is appropriate for a small child. Even when furnished with the figures which are not my biased, subjective or distorted view but from NHS who I can bet have significantly more knowledge than you. Either you should lobby and encourage the NHS to change their guidelines supported by the evidence you must have in abundance or otherwise you’re just pig ignorant and believe that repeatedly asserting your opinion makes it fact, or accept that 8 eggs for such small children isn’t compatible with a healthy diet.

I expect your kids are fat and you’re so passionate about this because you’re justifying your own poor parenting. You can kill with kindness you know.

I have to agree.

Judging someone's suitability to be a foster parent based solely on this thread is just ridiculous. Whether someone gives their (foster) kid chocolate at Easter or Halloween or gives gifts from Santa isn't a good indicator to the suitability of being a parent or a foster carer.

The only thing I have done on that list was Santa presents. My kids are now in their teenage years, and I haven't ever bought them an Easter egg or did Halloween (beyond the school disco). Should social services take them away? Does that mean we have never done fun stuff? No. Plenty fun stuff - just not these specific things.

I think it was more the posters attitude that people feel there’s not a place for around children. I’m not going to go back and find the post but it was something about the child being ‘full of expectation, but they’ll learn’. It was nasty.

I think it was more the posters attitude that people feel there’s not a place for around children. I’m not going to go back and find the post but it was something about the child being ‘full of expectation, but they’ll learn’. It was nasty.

@KeepYouForever exactly. The attitude. Very odd.

@KeepYouForever I read that post too and didn't take that from it. The poster said that they reminded the child that they don't do that sort of thing - ie no Halloween chocolate, Santa etc. Proving that it's subjective how an individual poster interprets a post. Is that poster a good foster carer? I don't know, and haven't got anywhere near enough info on them to make an opinion on it. Whether they give chocolate eggs to a foster child is neither here nor there in making that determination.

However some of the posts after that, attacking that poster, on a thread about Easter eggs were nasty, and actually really uncalled for.

Yeah I think it’s more odd to get so passionate on a light hearted Easter egg post. I accept people with low self esteem often get some sort of gratification in insulting others. So I hope this has helped you guys.

Low self esteem. Says the poster that felt the need to ask opinions about something as banal as buying/eating her kids EE. Ok then 😂

I think it was a cruel comment. I did AS the poster at the time as I was shocked and I wasn’t impressed by their other posts. I also saw that it shocked others who have chatted about it on another site. It’s not about the lack of chocolate, it was the cold nature of the comment. Nothing will change my mind on how it was meant.

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@KeepYouForever that's ok, you are entitled to your opinion. You don't have to change your mind.

But for me, the comments to that poster were uncalled for. Said much more about these posters than the one they were trying to call out. Rolled my eyes at a few of them and thought that's just nasty.

Why would I think that consumerism/secularism should trump the most important Christian festival?

I don’t know what comments were made, but if you come across as cruel to children on a parenting site, like you want to stamp out any hope and excitement in them, you’re going to get that I’m afraid. 🤷🏻‍♀️

My sympathies are with the child/children involved and I don’t think that people capable of attitudes like that should be caring for children. Some of the kids she cares for will have been through a lot, they deserve kindness, not coldness.

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