AIBU - to not buy DTs any Easter Eggs?

[Rememberallball]

DTs are 2 1/2 years old and have chocolate, biscuits or sweets at home (usually 1 bar or a small multipack pack) if they ask for them often after a meal or as a snack during the day. Neither are great eaters in general, though DT2 will eat some fruit and vegetables while DT1 is very much a noodles, pasta, chicken only child. To be honest I’m just glad to get calories in them most days that I don’t mind where they come from!!

Anyway, I don’t see much point in buying Easter eggs for them as they’re just expensive versions of the same chocolate or biscuits they have access to at home and I think they’re still young enough that they aren’t really going to understand not getting them if I don’t buy them!!

So - AIBU not to buy them?

Yanbu. I need to know what "DT" stands for though.

Toddlers?

Twins!

Will relatives buy them anyway? It doesn’t really matter at that age, they won’t understand.

I think this is weird. Easter eggs aren't expensive. The small ones are always on offer. Even if you got them a £1 they're sometimes better value than actual chocolate 😅

Mind you at 2 and a half I don't think I got my first DD one as she was a bit young but not because of the cost!

My two aren't mad on chocolate so they get a small Smarties type egg, and some smaller eggs/ bunnies for hunting around the garden. They enjoyed that from a very young age.

DS1 had allergies as a toddler, so I bought fluffy chicks and put them in plastic eggs to hunt before he could eat chocolate.

At that age we had a treasure hunt with the really small chocolate eggs inside those refillable plastic eggs and a book as the end prize.

Children like the novelty of a chocolate egg. You can get the smaller eggs with smarties, cream egg in etc in Asda for 99p.

Yanbu to not buy easter eggs but not sure why 'DT' was necessary - it's not a different decision because they're twins. How often do they have chocolate?

Always had a tradition in my side of family, when I was younger it was a VHS (lol), and now for my two o get them an outdoor toy (birthdays in depths of winter). They get chocolate from family and activities during Easter so I think it's nice to have something else.

I wouldn’t because it sounds like they’re having enough chocolate as it is. If they were only having it once a week or so then I possibly would. Probably more along the lines of making (and eating!!) Easter nests or something though.

I love Easter, I'd be surprised if a typical 2.5yr old child didn't understand. My son loved an Easter Egg Hunt at that age and knew about the Easter Bunny etc.
Mine are 4 and 1 (14mths). For Easter they're both getting a small toy (Lego/Duplo), a book, some bubbles, a little bunny milk bottle and 2 x small Easter eggs (the £1 ones). I'll also do some crafts, an Egg Hunt and make Bunny biscuits.

You've missed the point. DCs need to be given lots of easter eggs. So that parents can help with eating them

It’s Easter!!!! Yabu

At 2.5 they shouldn't be having chocolate and biscuits at the amount you're giving them anyway!

@Bluetrews25

You've missed the point. DCs need to be given lots of easter eggs. So that parents can help with eating them

This.

Personally I'd get them (small) Easter eggs but cut down on the amount of chocolate they're having generally. It sounds like quite a lot for a 2yo?

Chocolate as a snack! I love that. I shall now declare all chocolate snacks.

I don’t see much point in buying Easter eggs for them as they’re just expensive versions of the same chocolate
YABU solely for this!! IMO easter egg chocolate tastes different (nicer) to regular bars - the actual egg only though and it has to be cadburys.

But with LOs - I guess family will get them eggs.

Good luck

Grandparents, aunts, uncles and (worst of all) Dads love to buy their small socially unaware babies and toddlers chocolate and sweets at any opportunity

The kids don't know what's going on but they're over indulged regardless and its me who ends up bingeing on it all 🙈

OP, this is Mumsnet. You're either going to be deemed a monster for giving your children chocolate, or for not giving them chocolate. So do what you think is best.

Personally, if they are not at nursery etc where there will be talk of Easter Eggs and therefore they won't know any better, I wouldn't bother because it is overpriced chocolate. Or just get them a small smarties egg rather than anything eggstravagant.

I'll get my coat.

Yabu to even ask. They are your kids. Do what you want.

@SartresSoul

Will relatives buy them anyway? It doesn’t really matter at that age, they won’t understand.

this is why I don't buy them for my daughter, she ends up with loads and I end up picking at them

Will they get eggs from grandparents? If so, then I don't think to worry about it either way.

I would say, thought, that an Easter egg for a child isn't really about the actual chocolate, though, is it? Getting an Easter egg is just a special thing to mark Easter, something different that they don't have at any other time. Getting given an Easter egg 'from the Easter bunny' is a vaguely exciting novelty for a special occasion; getting given a chocolate biscuit is not. I guess it's a bit like having turkey and all the trimmings at Christmas, rather than the same meals you have for midweek dinner. So if it were me, I'd probably give them a £1 Easter egg each or something just for tradition's sake - but that's just me. I'm not actually a Christian but I like seasonal traditions, basically.

If you're not intending to mark Easter in any way and your kids won't notice anything's going on, then just crack on like it's any other weekend; they're probably much too little to notice they aren't getting something that their friends are getting.

('DTs' are the shakes that alcoholics get when they go cold turkey, so I think I'd have just gone with DCs )

Is there a cost restriction? If no then you can buy them very cheaply and would be nice to give them a little one each.