To make my children pay a Mummy tax

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On their sweets and chocolate?

Everyone has to pay tax, right?

But they are protesting.

So, AIBU?

(BTW the mummy tax is "Gimme some of those please")

YANBU!

MY DS has to let me try everything to make sure it is 'safe' before he is allowed to eat it.

Glad IANBU

Fluffy YANBU

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I always tell the girls it might be poisoned & it is my duty as a mother to check.

I used to get away with it!!

YANBU

In our house it is called a Chocolate Tax (CT) and no one is exempt and there is no tax free allowance.

Setting up an CT avoidance company in your bedroom is pointless as Mrs Lashings has HMCTRC (Her Majesty's Chocolate Tax Revenue and Customs) powers of entry and consumption confiscation.

Lashings - I feel we are operating a very similar tax regime in this house

Fluffy -

What a great idea. I'm no off in search of dcs with chocolate!

Yanbu.

Always do it, they get no choice.

My mum always has a sip of my drink thats annoying.

I shall file this away for when my dc's are older!

My children pay mummy tax on their sweets.
They had so much sweets from halloween I was doing them a favour helping them it it before it went off :)

I fear I'd get retaliation if I tried this one out - and they normally get yukky chewy sweets from parties and I ocassionally get nice chocolates which I want to myself.... or can I insist that only mummy gets mummy tax?

Oh no Purple, Mummy is the tax collector and the tax collector doesn't pay taxes, she collects them

Ah, I see

Mummy tax is enforced more around halloween when they get mr chews... Mmmm mr chews.

I have always told my children that orange smarties are for mummies. They still give me all the orange ones.

we have Mummy tax on sweets and chocolate too.

Thought I had invented it! Obviously not ...

We have the Jaffa cake tax in this house and it always has to be paid to mummy.

Not extended it to sweets as yet but I'm liking moomoomie's approach and may pinch that...

my 21 and 22 year old daughters still give me the blue smarties :)

I would choose to take my Mummy Tax as time in lieu

Any peace and quiet time is much appreciated, but only for a few hours! I miss them ater that