Skip to main content
Skip to main navigation
Skip to talk navigation

Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Add post

Watch this thread

Save thread

Start a new thread

Unflip thread

Hide thread

My feed

Saved Active Unanswered threads

Getting started FAQ's

Unanswered threads Acronyms Talk guidelines

Hide shortcut buttons

Talk

Unflip

1 2

AIBU?

To eat her chocolates?

35 replies

LittleMissRayOfHope · 28/07/2015 09:54

Dd turned 3 recently and was given a box of chocolates by a family friend.

She doesn't know she was given them and it would only end in tears anyway when she isn't allowed to eat the entire box in one go so WIBU to just eat them on her behalf?
Later once she is in bed and I'm curled up watching a film?

OP posts:

Report

Littleorangecat · 28/07/2015 12:59

Have you never heard of chocolate tax?? I'm afraid it's your duty to apply the said chocolate tax liberally in this instance and also give your dd a couple of chocs too (less the tax obviously).
My kids are older and won't comply as easily as a 3 yo, I think they find the idea most unfair. Tough.

GooodMythicalMorning · 28/07/2015 12:59

Yeah just a few in a bag. Ridiculous present for a 3 yr old. She doesnt need a whole box.

LittleMissRayOfHope · 28/07/2015 12:54

Hmmm, there's seems to be some division over whether scoffing a child's chocolates is acceptable parenting or not....

I will keep a few of the plainer ones for her. Honestly think she wouldn't eat most of them. And agree that thornton's are pretty generic these days not gonna stop me eating them though!

OP posts:

itsonlysubterfuge · 28/07/2015 12:27

My DD is allowed to share our special boxes of chocolate. She is allowed one or two at a time. She enjoys us all picking out a chocolate and then everyone sharing them together.

Why not try sharing them as a family?

redshoeblueshoe · 28/07/2015 12:22

I don't think you should eat them - that's just mean
I don't think she should have them - she's too young

So I'll do you a big favour - I'll eat them

ScorpioMermaid · 28/07/2015 12:21

I think I'd have to eat them and get her a replacement that's a bit more suitable for a 3 year old. my 3 year old wouldn't eat them, he'd just spit them out and make a giant mess

SpendSpendSpend · 28/07/2015 12:20

Thorntons chocolates are vile!

I cant imagine a 3 year old liking them.

WorraLiberty · 28/07/2015 12:16

I'd make a few little bags up and give her one every now and then, over the next few weeks.

Hellion7433 · 28/07/2015 12:14

Can you just choose 2 or three she might like and give them to her

LetThereBeCupcakes · 28/07/2015 12:13

Honestly OP if you don't think it's a suitable gift for your child (and you're quite entitled to do that), then just replace it for her. Either an equivelant value of more suitable sweets / chocs, money in her piggy bank or a toy. Message the gift giver if you like and say "hi, thanks for the gift, DD isn't keen on that sort of choc would you mind if I eat them and replace with X?".

My DS will eat most things but I doubt he'd eat filled chocs (as these probably are).

Notso · 28/07/2015 12:10

My Dad used to throw our selection boxes and Easter eggs in the bin because he decided we had too many.

Gruntfuttock · 28/07/2015 12:06

Floggingmolly Don't be silly. I don't think you should do 100 lines as punishment at all. I think you should stand in the corner, facing the wall and think aboiut what you've done. 14 and a half hours seems to be a suitable period of time, so take a potty with you.

Theycallmemellowjello · 28/07/2015 12:01

I assume this is a joke but... yes ywbu to steal your three year old's present! Just let her eat them over the course of a few months - chocs last!

Taytocrisps · 28/07/2015 11:55

YABVU.

You should send half to me.

Floggingmolly · 28/07/2015 11:23

Sorry, Gruntfuttock. Guilty of skim reading.. I've given myself 100 lines as punishment.
Op will be pleased you're supervising her thread so well. Have a

Gruntfuttock · 28/07/2015 11:17

Floggingmolly "Does she know she got the chocolates?"

It says in the OP that she doesn't know.

Tsk.

TheSpottedZebra · 28/07/2015 11:08

Hi Cupcakes!
I could so manage the whole box. In an episode of corrie. Or even Peppa Pig.

Floggingmolly · 28/07/2015 10:52

Does she know she got the chocolates? I got an Easter egg for my 4th birthday (bloody swizz) and was forced to share it with my four brothers. It still rankles...

LetThereBeCupcakes · 28/07/2015 10:45

Are you planning to eat the WHOLE lot tonight whilst watching that film? Because that is some seriously hard-core chocolate eating. I don't think even I could manage that.

yes I Could

Gruntfuttock · 28/07/2015 10:40

It's a crazy present for a three year old, but I can't see why you can't give her one occasionally without showing her the whole box.

mrsmeerkat · 28/07/2015 10:38

I am fairly laid back but a double layer of chocolates for three year old is a no no.

Put a few in a little Sandwich bag for her

LondonRocks · 28/07/2015 10:36

Blimey. Just share them. Keep the box out of reach and give her one every now and then, and have a few yourself.

Don’t want to miss threads like this?

Weekly

Sign up to our weekly round up and get all the best threads sent straight to your inbox!

Email address

Log in to update your newsletter preferences.

You've subscribed!

LetThereBeCupcakes · 28/07/2015 10:35

A two layer box of thorntons? For a Three year old? Whaaaat?

TheSpottedZebra · 28/07/2015 10:33

That's a bonkers present for a 3 yo!
I'd trough them, and replace them with something like a big tube of smarties, which I rationed out meanly. And probably ate some of, too.

LittleMissRayOfHope · 28/07/2015 10:30

It is a 2 layer box of thorntons....

The idea of putting a couple in a bag makes me feel far far less guilty about planning to eat them all!

OP posts:

Unflip

1 2

Please create an account

To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.