To think this is an april fools joke gone too far!

[Gabbyleo]

I've had enough really. out of any day not Easter. My DCs 8, 5 and 3 have been waiting patiently all month for their chocolate eggs. I wake up this morning to find the Easter eggs all eaten with the the boxing left in the cupboard , the wrappers inside with one smarty, button or malteser left . I put it on the top of the cupboard so only DH and the DS 1&2 (18 and 15) could reach them. I go up to DS room and they were pretending to sleep. I wake them up and they admitted to eating all the Easter eggs. there was 8 of them! I cant actually believe it! They said they were planning to go to shop and buy some replacements but it was closed. They claimed it was an 'April Fool joke but went wrong'. The worst thing was they both found it funny I've told them they have to apologise to younger DCs. That there consoles and phones will be confiscated for all Easter break and that they are grounded and won't be going to any of their friends house. April Fools jokes are supposed to be funny! DH told me in going too far but I don't care sick of them treating the younger ones like shit. Rant over.

OP, are the younger DC all female?

I don’t do the silent treatment but I would find it very difficult to speak or even look at an 18 year old “man” who behaved like that.
I wonder would they find it funny if they got no presents on their next birthdays?
Of course your Husband would just spoil them anyway

Playdohnut

OP, are the younger DC all female?

2 DDs 8,3 and 1 DS 5

Your DH is an absolute prick.

They need to tell the dc and watch them get upset to understand why what they did is wrong. Erm, no, they did this in order to see the younger dc upset, that was the plan! Do people seriously think a 15 and 18 year old didn't realise this would upset their young siblings?

They didn't just thoughtlessly eat a bar of chocolate, according to Op they put the boxes and wrappers back in the cupboard with one sweet left in each. So they ate all the eggs and then decided it would be hilarious to surprise the little ones with the empty packaging where their chocolate eggs should be. The single sweet left in each is added spite, rubbing the dc noses in it.

I'm kind of hoping this isn't real because these arseholes aren't children anymore. If they are this spiteful and malicious now then that's just who they are and grounding and banning tech for a week won't change that.

This is never going to end because your husband enables your older sons to behave like this. Oldest needs to start paying board or move out.

Coco is right- there is something very disturbing about a fully grown man and a teenager getting a kick out of deliberately upsetting very young children.

I'm sure when their friend say they have been shits the penny will drop.

Totally agree with some of the PPs comments.

An April fools joke is pretending to have eaten all the eggs.

Eating all the eggs is just eating someone else's Easter eggs.

I would be kicking the teenagers out of bed. Does DS(18) do any chores round the house if he doesn't pay keep?

I'm afraid I'd be seriously considering throwing both DH and DS1 out.

At the very least you need to get angry and really show it. Let them know you wont take any more of this crap.
I'd be in their rooms with a baseball bat. TV, games consoles etc. Not their heads. Not yet anyway.

I may have anger issues.

Stand firm OP .Your older two are bullys and it's you, as a parents,job to teach them that's not the way to go and also to protect your little ones.If your husband can't see that he's a shit father and very much part of the problem.

Take a photo of the empty boxes and post them on their Facebook with a caption and ask their friends if this was a funny April fools joke.

*not really but I would be well tempted.

Elen I know I shouldn't say it but quite honestly when Op said she wanted to ban phones and consoles I thought to myself I'd smash them to pieces in front of them .

That's actually a good idea Gamerchick. Maybe their peers could shame them because it's obvious their parents can't.

did you not get easter eggs for your older boys?

Growing up my mother let my brother (12 years older) treat me appallingly. When I was 7 she let him take all of my Christmas presents that I had that year to sell at car boot. He killed my hamster by putting whisky in its bottle. He put a cartoon pornography film of an old woman being abused on to one Christmas Day when I was about 10 and I had to sit through it. I caught a little fish (about 4 inches long) in a rock pool at the beach and my mother let him kill it infront of me (made me go vegetarian that day I was so traumatised). I could go on, I wish someone had stood up to him. I'm nc with my entire family now.

I'd be in their rooms with a baseball bat. TV, games consoles etc. Not their heads. Not yet anyway

And then they come home and reveal the “hidden” 🥚.

Whoops.

OP, do the younger DCs know what eggs they were supposed to be getting? Won't they wonder why (if) they are no longer getting the same ones, if your DH cannot find them in the shops? How will your DH answer them? I'd make your DH & older DS's answer these questions, or at least come up with answers, & ensure they are in the room when the younger children are told. Make them face up to what they've done. TBH it sounds as though you DH is as much to blame as your DS's, through his attitude to their behaviour.

I would too Coco. Or phones. Whatever tech they have. They'd be up at 6 every day doing chores to work off the cost of buying new eggs and I'd make them buy their siblings something really nice with their own money to apologise. DH would be told in no uncertain terms to grow up or fuck off. 5 kids is enough, you don't need him behaving like a cunt teenager.

I don't know of this has been suggested, but I would leave it until lunch and then ask then to explain to their grandparents about their 'hilarious' April Fool, might shame them further!

Why are they still living at home?

I would be posting pictures on Facebook and tagging them in it. You could claim it’s a joke, like they did. Only I bet they won’t find that funny.

You’re DH sounds appalling. Why would they want to make their younger siblings cry? And why are they still in bed? Get them up and get them doing chores!

I would go ballistic - an ott reaction maybe exactly what they and your dh need.