DH has eaten all the kids christmas chocolate!

[Darmont]

am so cross with him, he always does it and I tell him every Easter and Xmas, but he's done it again. I know it's temping late a night when you've got the munchies, but think it's selfish especially when a lot of it was given to them as presents (not just tree chocolates). I feel like telling him that I'm just off to Thornton's to replace the teddy bears with the children's names on and the rest, grrrrrr!

[samandi]

Thing is he likes to control what they eat and has a bit of a problem with them eating chocolates and sweets anyway,

It sounds as though he's the one with the problem eating chocolates and sweets. Your kids aren't the ones sneaking into cupboards and stealing other people's presents.

[DontmindifIdo]

MrsHoarder makes a valid point. We always had access to chocolate throughout the year at home, and seem to have a healthy attitude towards chocolate/biscuits etc. I found it really odd that my friends at uni when we left home couldn't buy a packet of biscuits and not eat them all. They found it odd that I could buy a multipack of chocolate bars and have one every/everyother night, rather than sit and work my way through them all until they had gone.

All those who couldn't show restraint as an adult had never been taught it as a child, they often would be given a large amount of sweets/chocolate one day a week then pig out on them all, then nothing until the following. Knowing that they have treats but they will still be there if they leave it until tomorrow is important lesson to learn, that you dont have to eat it all in one go.

We didn't have banned foods as DCs (other than white bread - still white toast with real butter feels like a naughty treat), so when I left home I didn't do the thing that a lot of the girls in my uni halls did of going up a dress size by the first Christmas.

Your PIL obviously failed to teach your DH personal restraint when it comes to treat food. It's not acceptable that he doesn't bother to learn now or that insists that bad food habit is pushed down another generation.

[MrsHoarder]

This is how I started having chocolate binges: fear that if I didn't eat it all at once it wouldn't be there later. He is basically punishing them for acting with restraint.

[mrsjay]

greedy bugger I hate greed like this My dh could be like if i wasn't watchig but it is the 3rd week in january the kids hadn't eaten them so obviously hadn't missed them id get him to replace some of the chocolate I know it isn't the point but have the children missed it,

[attheendoftheday]

He should replace it! And then buy his own chocolate.

[GiveMeSomeSpace]

My Mrs does this every year week

[HeadfirstForHalos]

I would have asked first as well, only they were in bed! I have borrowed from piggy banks too, but only with permission, and we give them 10% extra on return

[HeadfirstForHalos]

The shop had shut valium

They didn't know they had gone but we did so we replaced them. It was only fair.

Borrowing is one thing, pinching is something else.

[LittleMissFantabulous]

I buy excess chocolate from my kids. Works at Easter and christmas. Selection boxes all get emptied into the communal chocolate box and are there for anyone until its empty.

[HecatePropolos]

Call me all the 'po' in the world but I think tat youtube video is HORRIBLE.

those children were really upset. Why would you make your kids cry acos some bloke on the telly told you to sendhim this 'joke'?

I thought it was really mean.

And yes, op, your husband was a piggie and he should replace the choc.

[PurplePidjin]

He hasn't eaten some of it. He's eaten all of it.

I think your 7yo needs to ask daddy if he may have some of Christmas chocolate for pudding. And daddy needs to explain exactly where the chocolate has gone. Perhaps the OP could be on the phone to the person who gave the chocolate while all this happens.

It's a small thing but it crosses a line - you've got something i want so I'm allowed to take it because I'm bigger.

[ithaka]

I think he is greedy and setting a poor example. Xmas choccy in our house lasts for MONTHS - pretty much until Easter when we get a new lot of choccy!

Chocolate doesn't go off, so it can be used as a pudding in small amounts and the children learn you can have a big box of Roses (for example) in the house and you don't need to scoff it all up, but can have some now and again.

Sadly, many people seem to have lost the ability to stop eating when they have had enough (hence the obesity epidemic). Teaching a healthy attitude to sweet treats is an invaluable life lesson.

[EarnestDullard]

I think it's mean and greedy to eat it all. I agree that kids often get a ridiculous amount of chocolate at Christmas so eating some of it is probably doing them a favour, but if it's all gone then he should replace some of it.

[usualsuspect]

GREEDY sod,not funny in the slightest.

[DontmindifIdo]

I do think either he replaces it or you tell the DCs and tell the people who bought it. He can pretend it's because he doesn't want the DCs to eat too much chocolate, but in reality it's because he's both too greedy to show self restraint and too tight to buy his own. Eating some of the DCs stuff and then replacing it is ok, eating it and not replacing it (and eating personalised stuff isn't on) is just saying "I'm bigger than you to I get to take your stuff".

and I agree, next year/easter, tell him you're not going to ration the chocolate intake, you'll let them gorge on it all because he can't be trusted to let you ration it and not steal it himself (keep saying steal, it'll make him feel worse). Then go out, leaving him with 2 DCs who've had their body weight in chocolate and sweets. Good luck with that.

[Darmont]

AnAirOfHope Your son is right it's no fun at all when nasty grown ups nick your chocolate and they should be made to sit on the naughty step with no telly and computer for a week

[StuntGirl]

To this day my dad will eat other people's food if you don't eat it all yourself immediately. Not just chocolate, everything. And he doesn't even like most of it as a normal rule, yet happily eats other peoples. It's rude, selfish and greedy.

[AnAirOfHope]

My son would like to tell you all that its still wrong for mummy to eat a bar of choclate out of a selection box because it was his from Santa and mummy had no right to eat it. It was naughty

I think your DH needs to replace it.

[AdoraBell]

Okay, I've nicked a few bits off the DCs, but only what can be easily replaced, like a bog standard bar of chocolate.

Given that he's eating their personalised presents I would go one step further and tell the buyers of said gifts not to buy chocolate for DCs again as their greedy fucker of a father will scoff the lot again.

And make him go to Thorntons and replace it. He may be an emotional eater, or maybe not, but either way he shouldn't be repeatedly eating what he can't easily replace without them finding out.

It doesn't matter how much DCs were given, how long it's been there or how it's rationed out. YANBU.

[Startail]

By 7 my two would have known exactly what they had and DH would be in big trouble!

Reducing stupid amounts of chocolate for preschoolers OK.

After that you have to agree with them that they have too much and exchange it for comics, Lego mini figures or some other small treat.

You can't just Steal It!

[valiumredhead]

pingu

Ds laughs about it, come pocket money day, it's bit of a running joke.

[pingu2209]

Valium - I'm so pleased it isn't just me who 'borrows' money from dc moneybox. So far dh and I are in the red to ds2 by about £50.