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

Annoyed doesnt mean angry! not from where im from anyway!

if i was angry i would have angry not annoyed! of course a parent can do what they like but i am still allowed an opinion! and my opinion is that its mean not to allow a child to have ANY chocolate at easter! that my opinion and im not ashamed of it! :D

DramaInPyjamas, i agree :)

MrsvWoolf i think you explained it quite well. and you made your own eggs, thats quite impressive, i wouldnt know where to start with making my own! :)

Im still smiling so i cant be that angry now can i! lol and i dont know how you managed to miss that!

you have to bear with me on the lol's, i use them alot purely to show i mean no offence more than anything so really you should be flattered i bother! lol

I don't care if people don't buy eggs. We didn't for our kids. But I think it's sad for the kids if nothing is done. Don't care if people buy them something else, go out for the day, have a lovely meal together, just do something abit out of the norm. We had an Easter Egg hunt this morning ( 4 times), big lunch and been to ride on the mini steam engines. It's been a lovely family day.

I have a kid who is dairyfree and I haven't stopped grinning today cos kind family found him dairyfree chocolate eggs and an Easter Bunny. Irrelevant to this post but I am soooo happy for him.

YABU.

Not buying an Easter egg doesn't make a person a twat. Writing "ect" does though, dingdong.

We never had big chocolate eggs as children because we were quite a religious family, and eating lots of chocolate at Easter has nothing to do with Christianity. The eggs (and the bunnies too) are pre christian and to do with spring and rebirth. The chocolate is more to do with chocolate manufacturers making a lot of money. So we painted our boiled eggs for Easter morning breakfast and had an Easter egg hunt (with not too many little chocolate eggs because if there are too many my mother gets very agitated).

Now I am an atheist I really am not too bothered about eating lots of chocolate. But that's partly because where I live they don't do Green and Black eggs I do enjoy settng up the Easter egg hunts though.

If I had observed a mother removing her child's egg after school and his 'friend' teasing him about it my thoughts would be more on how badly the other kid was behaving rather than on the perceived meanness of the mother.

Pmsl how does writing ect make me a twat?! and i didnt call people twats i said they were twatty! there is a difference, ie meaning their actions were twatty!

I love Mumsnet! gonna have me a glass of

Yes ok knit2tog

We had a lovely Easter egg hunt this morning, it also included some chocolate santas, snowmen and reindeer I found in the back of the cupboard. [bugrin]

I didn't buy DD an Easter Egg because she is in receipt of 8 already from family and friends. She's eaten only 1 today, I've nabbed another and she'll just eat them over a fair few weeks.

I'm a twat by nature so no offence taken.

We all have our own preferences. You could say the same about parents who haven't taken the chidlren to church today. Luckily we live in a free society so if you want to poison your child with bad food or indoctrinte them in the ways of Jesus or even swathe them in a burkha you're free to do so. It's why the UK is so popular. We must work to preserve the freedoms we have or else we'll lose them.

We have sat in bed and eaten chocolate every morning since Friday.

But I thnk it's very rude to call ayone 'twatty'.

lol.

Ds had 5 Easter Eggs. One he won in a raffle, one from grandma, one from cousins and two he purchased with his pocket money. He got a wooden nesting box from me. Good to know I'm a 'neglectful twat'.

Agree completely with Xenia.

(There's a sentence I never thought I'd say)

bloody pathetic parents that wont let their child have an easter egg unless obviously medical reasons that the child cannot eat chocolaote then get a bloody life one egg is not gonna make a child fat just happy

I didn't buy my children Easter eggs. We're not pagan, they've never heard of Eostre, I cannot bring myself to spend $12 per child on something which amounts to a lot of air and packaging. Especially when a $3 bar has more chocolate in it.

So we had a chocolate hunt and spent the day reading & playing together, watching movies and sharing their bars (and mine). When I wasn't working. Which we do on days that aren't Easter too.

My children aren't neglected and I couldn't care less about your opinion of my twattishness.

YANBU. You'd think that with all this glorious weather we've been having people would have lightened up a tad. Unfortunately not.

I just don't know how I survived my Easter egg - abundant childhood. I am shocked I am not now obese and mindlessly consumed by commercialism. It was an abuse, I tell you! Every day is a struggle. Sniff.

P.S. You can "lol" if you want to. It may take time and therapy but people will eventually get over it.

dingdongmrs i am totaly with you, i think the REFUSAL TO LET CHILDREN HAVE EGGS ON HEALTH GROUNDS IS CRAZY, and to take them away downright cruel, although i didn't buy eggs for mine they had lots, we are taking them to Guillivers kingdom, on friday instead (purely selfish reasons I want to escape wedding fever)