Do you eat your kids advent calendar?

AdventThief · 2023-12-03T08:45:57+00:00

This is light-hearted. I'm not a monster. But if your child goes to their other parent for the weekend what do you do with the chocolate. Do they get to eat 3 in one go? Or do you secretly eat them and say the elves did it?

Janieforever · 03/12/2023 08:47

No of course I don’t eat them or lie. It’s their chocolate. They get them when they come back.

Bobtheamazinggingerdog · 03/12/2023 08:47

No!! They get them when they come back. Don't be greedy.

Floooooof · 03/12/2023 08:48

Step away from the advent calendars and go and buy yourself a Mars bar

3WildOnes · 03/12/2023 08:49

I would have been livid if my mum had eaten my advent chocolate. One of the perks of divorced parents is multiple advent calendars and a pile of chocolate to gobble when switching houses. Don't do it OP!

Ratfinkstinkypink · 03/12/2023 08:50

Yes because he's tube fed (he also has a sensory advent calendar so gets something from that every day too)

TheChosenTwo · 03/12/2023 08:50

They would just eat the uneaten days when they got back.
Don’t get me wrong, I share their easter chocolate because I do a massive hunt (my nieces and nephews come too) and they still get a lot of eggs which they break and it all
gets mixed together in a giant Tupperware that goes in the fridge, but an advent calendar is just one small square of chocolate, they’d be fuming if I ate it!

teenysaladandsniffofarose · 03/12/2023 08:50

No I'd feel so mean! Even if it's one it just feels a bit selfish.

My mum still buys me one every year so I have my own😂

notanothernana · 03/12/2023 08:50

A child told me the other day their elf had eaten some of their advent calendar. Poor behaviour on part of the parents.

My mum would eat my Xmas chocolates and thought I wouldn't notice. I was really upset.

BeingATwatItsABingThing · 03/12/2023 08:51

There really is no excuse to eat a child’s advent chocolate. Assuming it’s just a small chocolate a day, eating 3 at once is hardly excessive.

YourNameGoesHere · 03/12/2023 08:51

No surely they just eat the extra ones once home. It's a tiny bit of chocolate, even the strictest of parents on that front surely wouldn't begrudge them more than one upon their return?

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AdventThief · 03/12/2023 08:54

Sorry this has made me laugh. I haven't eaten his advent calendar. As I said I'm not a monster. This is the first year he's had one. So I wonder what the norm was. I'll let him have a chocolate feast when he gets home!

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AHelpfulHand · 03/12/2023 08:55

The problem with a child not being able to leave food somewhere until they return, is that it teaches them to eat whilst it’s going otherwise it won’t be there when they get back.

MyNutcrackersNuts · 03/12/2023 08:55

No I wouldn't, the tiny taste of chocolate wouldn't be worth seeing the disappointment on their faces.
Also, I am an adult and capable of going getting a box of chocolates if I really want one.

Needmorelego · 03/12/2023 08:57

You could just ask him if he minds.

BeingATwatItsABingThing · 03/12/2023 09:00

AdventThief · 03/12/2023 08:54

Sorry this has made me laugh. I haven't eaten his advent calendar. As I said I'm not a monster. This is the first year he's had one. So I wonder what the norm was. I'll let him have a chocolate feast when he gets home!

Why would you even question what the norm is here? Surely you realise that your child would be seriously disappointed if he came home and you’d eaten his chocolate.

CeriB82 · 03/12/2023 09:01

Its a tiny piece. Not a whole bar. Leave the calendar be eh?

Janieforever · 03/12/2023 09:03

AdventThief · 03/12/2023 08:54

Sorry this has made me laugh. I haven't eaten his advent calendar. As I said I'm not a monster. This is the first year he's had one. So I wonder what the norm was. I'll let him have a chocolate feast when he gets home!

It’s hardly a feast. 3 small bits of chocolate, and let him? It’s his chocolate. He was gifted it. Go and buy yourself some chocolate.

00100001 · 03/12/2023 09:04

Needmorelego · 03/12/2023 08:57

You could just ask him if he minds.

Why?

Why eat it at all??

YourNameGoesHere · 03/12/2023 09:05

AdventThief · 03/12/2023 08:54

Sorry this has made me laugh. I haven't eaten his advent calendar. As I said I'm not a monster. This is the first year he's had one. So I wonder what the norm was. I'll let him have a chocolate feast when he gets home!

A feast... It's at most 3 pieces of tiny chocolate... Hardly a bloody feast.

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AdventThief · 03/12/2023 09:06

He wouldn't be disappointed if he came home and one had been eaten. He lacks the capacity to understand Christmas and Advent Calendars. I was simply making light of the situation and wondered what other parents did regardless of SEN issues. He will have all the chocolates if he wants them. The calendar is waiting for him on the fireplace.

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Needmorelego · 03/12/2023 09:09

@00100001 well my daughter's interest level in an advent calendar always fizzled out after about 4 days. So I usually asked her "Shall I open it? Can I eat the chocolate?".
She was always fine with it.

PuttingDownRoots · 03/12/2023 09:09

I "help" with Easter eggs,the oversupply of chocolate at Christmas and birthdays etc... but not advent calenders.

Saying that... their advent calenders have a few sweets in this year (a dozen skittles or 5 malteasrers) and they have given me one. But not the small lump of chocolate

christmasdodedodedo · 03/12/2023 09:09

Let him have the pleasure of a mass Monday opening and some treats.

It's HIS calendar not yours.

This isn't lighthearted, it's weird.

GuinnessBird · 03/12/2023 09:15

Yeah this is a strange thread and I think that the OP is back peddling slightly due to the responses, it's their advent calendar, not yours.

WashItTomorrow · 03/12/2023 09:18

No, my DC get cardboard ones.

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