To not want to give my toddler a load of chocolate just to make somebody else happy..

[Februaryblooms]

I have a 15 month old little boy, an older distant relative has kindly sent him an Easter box with a variety of different chocolate treats in such as eggs, some buttons, a chocolate bunny etc. There's quite alot of it for a child his age.

The annoying part is that they want me to video call them when he has it, so they keep messaging me asking when I'm going to give it to him. She's excited to see him get all excited about it (to be fair he's not that interested in chocolate, it's likely to upset his stomach and he couldn't care less about sweets anyway so it'll be a bit of an anti climax on her end)

I don't really want to give him a shit load of chocolate and make a big show of it just to make somebody else happy and keep putting it off saying we're busy etc.

AIBU?

Thank you @ContessaIsOnADietDammit I appreciate that, it most definitely does x

Well i sent the video.

Popped him in his high chair and unwrapped the box, took a few photos of him holding various sweets then gave him half of a chocolate bunny to make a mess with.

He didn't look overly excited like she'd anticipated but he enjoyed the chocolate and I think the fact he was smothered in it will make her happy

Bath time!

I’m not joking- what 14 month old doesn’t enjoy a chocolate button? I never said it was the most exciting thing in the world to them and that there wasn’t anything else that enthused them.

Sounds like an excellent approach op well done!

Good work OP!