to eat ds's curlwurly while he sleeps?

[DottiestDoris]

it's in his selection box and I REALLY fancy it. He prefers chomps so it's not that unreasonable, surely?!

[girliefriend]

I did steal a bag of dds chocolate money as she had a ridiculous amount and I had none.





I am not even sorry.

[200Cigarettes]

It's a chocolate bar people! A paid for chocolate bar (bit different than stealing from a shop!) that op's dc has plenty of left. Bloody hell if I didn't eat some of the xmas chocolate my toddler was given she would either make herself sick from eating that amount or it would go out of date. 2 yos shouldn't be eating whole selection boxes. I'm amazed at some of these ridiculous overreactions!

[200Cigarettes]

pixie the cleaner was an employee and should not be stealing anything from her employers. Op is dcs mother - one that most likely does everything for her dc and puts herself second- I know I do - they eat better, dressed better, thw dc always get put first. I think its more than okay for her to have a choccie at xmas.

Its preposterous of you to liken actual theft to a mum eating a chocolate bar.

Listen to yourselves. Absurd.

[DottiestDoris]

pixie, I think the difference for me is that your view seems so prescriptive. By that, I mean there's nothing wrong per se in what you say, it makes sense. But I would apply the logic to a situation such as a house share. Where people do need to be more territorial. This is a family situation where nothing really belongs to one person and not another. Yes, the selection box was a present to him, but everything we own as individuals also belongs to the family. If you call it stealing, it is like saying I'm stealing from myself.
As fory comment about him being 2 and not knowing, it was more in reference to not making him upset. He doesn't know he 'owns' a curlywurly and is therefore not going to be upset if it disappears. I would never deliberately do something that would upset him and therefore this was not a factor in weighing up whether to eat it or not.

[littlewhitechristmasbag]

This thread has taken a very bizarre turn. Usually posters would throw their hands up in horror at a 2 yo having access to any sweets at all. Now there is a furore over a mum eating a curlywurly which her child doesn't even know he has. She is doing him a favour and looking out for his teeth and general health!

I think the grips need to be handed round pronto.

[BakedAlaskaStomper]

I took a bar from each kids selection box and called it Mammy Tax! They all coughed up, even the 15y DS1; it was the 8y DS2 that put up resistance. DD just handed it over. Although 15y handed me the buttons, that was kind of sneaky, wasn't it?

[littleblackno]

"Mammy tax" I'm using that one in future

[madasa]

I regularly 'stole' my DD's chocolate.

She was about 10 before she realised that chocolate bunnies actually do have ears.

She is 22 now and has come through it unscathed