AIBU To think parents that refuse to buy their kids easter eggs are a bit twatty?!

[dingdongmrs]

Can i sat twatty?! lol

seriously, im sorry i offend anyone, well no im not really cos this is my opinion but it annoys me when parents say "oh i didnt buy my kids any easter eggs, theyre a waste of money" or the new thing "its too unhealthy" i mean its a chocolate egg for god sake, surely one will not matter, unless theyre intolerant to chocolate or whatever but come on!!

I was having a look on netmums and there is a thread on there of all these women saying they wont buy their kids eggs cos theyre too expensive (yet they buy them a mass amount of clothes or expensive holidays each year) and there the healthy eating briagde saying they wont buy them because they will may the kids obese ect ect

i spent ten pound on some eggs for my kids, just ten pound, not a fortune, asda have them for a pound each for goodness sake!

when i was a kid we had lots of easter eggs each year, and no im not obese!! lol

i just think some people are a little too anal about some things! maybe i am being unreasonal but i want my kids to enjoy easter ect and an egg wont hurt surely!

and yes i wanted to rant cos i couldnt rant on netmums as you get told off for having an opinion lol

I haven't bought any eggs for my dd's yet mainly as they have all been ill over the holidays so I haven't been out and I don't really see the point anyway. We're not religious and they have sweets all year round so a bit of chocolate isn't a big deal.

I haven't bought my kids easter eggs! And THEY think I am the best mummy in the world!

No chocolate eggs here, not even from Grandma. I told her what I'm going to tell the OP - if you feel that DD2 must have Easter eggs during a festival we neither believ in nor celebrate, YOU have her to stay overnight while she's eating them... and YOU deal with the behaviour as a result of her eating chocolate.

Grandma went home shortly after that... alone.

Now... shoot me.

i dont buy my children easter eggs last year my lo ened up with 24 from various poeple he still had 7 left in october i get him a egg cup useually as he collects those or pjs with a easter theme

My kids got money from both sets of GP's and nothing from us, our car broke down and has cost a massive amount of money to fix, some of which we didnt have and had to borrow so DH can get to work, so sorry I didnt get eggs for my kids for a religious holiday has become about buying chocolate! Im sure Tesco/Cadbury's will survive as will my kids.

vahalla i totally agree with you my lo scoffed 4 on the way home from grandads last year and was sick about two hours after he was droped of it really fun unless you have to clean up the sick and i cant be arsed with the consant asking for an easter egg every darn minute

insertfunnynicknamehere im just going to quote what you said and then answer underneath as its a bit tricky to keep up on here

you said...OP you lost me with your arguement that if their friends have them then they should too.that doesn't wash when my DS says it and it won't wash here!

My reply... i mean children that cam eout of school with an easter egg each at the end of school (just before the easter holidays) and one child was asking his mummy if he can have his easter egg on easter sunday and she said "no you cant we will give it to the neighbours, you know i dont allow chocolate" so the child cried and his friend was laughing and bragging that he was allowed his ect ect. that is what i meant by my comment about friends having them, when the school gives them and the child knows his friends have them yet he isnt allowed his. i think that is wrong and quite cruel.

Not all kids can eat chocolate though OP.

borderslass - i know not all children can have chocolate which is what i said in my first post, if they cant have it fair enough, i know there are medical reasons that some children cant have it or even the fact some children just get extremely hyper or bad tempered so that i completely understand.

^wannaBe

in fairness the op did say that she was referring to parents who didn't allow their children to have any easter eggs at all not even from the grandparents?^

Thank you Wannabe, that is what i was trying to say, i dont think i made myself clear, thank you. :)

What anger?! im not angry, i just feel sorry for the kids, and before you start spouting crap about neglect or abuse that is not what this thread is about, i dont think not giving easter eggs is abuse and not once have i said i do so please before you go off on one about something completely irrelevant i suggest you stop being so childish!

i totally agree with you op. yanbu.

YABU-I don't think it's any of your business.

Well, you don't get alot of chocolate for the money. I am not a christian so don't celebrate Easter as such, but have eaten an Easter egg or two, been given them.
But wouldn't buy them.
My kids would prefer a bag of maltesers

Bran, I havent lost my rag, it takes alot for me to lose my rag. my words may seem harsh to you but by no means does it mean i have lost my rag, it purely means i dont take crap from anyone and by the looks of it no one else here does either which is why i like coming here!

However i do disagree with your posts, but again that does not mean i have lost my rag! Lol

Thats the thing knit2tog, i dont care if schools give chocolate at easter! so no i wont spend my energy trying to change that, theres no point anyway, have you ever tried fighting a school to change their ways?! its impossible, things only change when the goverment or educational authority change them.

Thank you RainbowPatooties :)

I didn't buy my lads an Easter egg. Ds1 won a massive one from a raffle and they got given two large chocolate rabbits as well, so they still had loads of chocolate.

Each to their own.
I couldn't not get my kids one though. I like getting them an Easter Egg, even though they get from relatives too.