Hubby ate daughters Easter Eggs!

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AIBU? daughter has gone out for the day with Nan and grandad, I’m cleaning the kitchen and notice the plastic tub in the cupboard which had about 4 broken up Easter eggs (daughters eggs) is empty.
He then said ‘oh I ate them last night as I wanted chocolate, she’s got other ones in there’
Shes got about 2 other eggs and odd bits left.
shes going to be so upset when she finds out as it was her ‘special box’ of eggs
Anyway he has stormed out saying I’m being stupid and she’s got to learn to share. I think he’s a pig in both ways!!!

Ah yes, the tantrum of a mediocre man.

Our kids have their own stash of sweets and chocolates they get given. Me and my DH wouldn't eat their sweets. There is more general stuff that is everyone's.

I don't get the 'eat it up' argument. It will last for months. If it goes off chuck it out. Chocolate on the whole isn't expensive, adults should be buying their own supply, not nicking their child's.

I think my children like the idea of a stash as much as eating it tbh! Hopefully they are learning a bit of self control, who knows?

The child isn't learning anything from the dad eating all the chocolate other than not to trust the dad to look after stuff.

He's a greedy pig.

I hate when people eat something belonging to someone else. It was bought for her, so it's hers. It wasn't bought with the weekly shopping for everyone to share. If he wanted some he should have asked her, same way he'd expect her to ask him for some of what ever was bought for him.

One of my sister's is like this, I use to have to hide my gifts because she would ram it down her neck and deny it, nothing was safe. I use to spread out my things like selection boxes, easter eggs etc and I'd go to eat some and it'd all be gone and the wrappers hid under her bed. I absolutely hated her greed.

She's 7, she's a child, he should have had a small bit, but 4 fucking eggs. That's pure greed.

Well it's hardly crime of the century but since she will be upset and it was "special" (a new thing each week is special to my daughter) I'd say not really on when you can pop to the corner shop for all the chocolate your heart desires.

And then making out it's some kind of parenting lesson with the 'she's got to learn to share'. Eat or use something of his that he really likes, then say 'but you've got to learn to share' when he notices

She's only 7. I wouldn't let her eat 6 Easter eggs. Mine have 3 each and we'll help them a bit.

Mine have a lick of a creme egg wrapper.

So because she hasn't stuffed her face and ate it all quickly, she shouldn't be allowed to keep it? I have chocolate from Xmas because I'm happy to make it last. All this has taught it gorge yourself with it all or Dad will eat it. Great lesson.

This. I've 'helped' my DC along but they're bored of their eggs, have lots of them and are unlikely to notice a small amount missing. If we didn't swipe the odd piece, there would still be huge pile at Halloween.

If your DD is likely to notice, then no it's not on. In any event, he should have asked her and then she could have chosen to share; he didn't give her the choice.

And eating the whole tub is just piggy.

Astonished at all the posters portraying this tantrumming man as the victim here. He’s clearly capable of going out on his own as he’s stropped off- why didn’t he just do that earlier, and buy his own chocolate while he was there?

This obviously isn’t teaching sharing. He didn’t share, he took. It’s teaching children that adults will just take want they want, even if it doesn’t belong to them. It’s teaching children that they need to either gorge all their treats in one go or hide them- not a great message about healthy eating. It’s teaching her that actually she can’t trust her dad to take her feelings into account, as he will prioritise himself.

This child had been sensible- eaten a bit of chocolate at a time, saved it in a way that made it clear that it was her saved chocolate- and now she’s lost out.

And of course there’s the usual crowd of ‘all food in the house is for sharing, how do people live like this’ . Of course general household food is shared, but in households where one person troughs all the treat food it doesn’t work. Having individual snack boxes gives children the opportunity to learn to manage impulses, and what healthy eating looks like for them as an individual.

Mine are shown a creme egg wrapper on Easter Sunday to gaze upon for ten seconds. I find that's sufficient frivolity for one day.

But she’s got more eggs, according to the OP…it’s not like he ate the lot. The ‘special box’ thing is nausea inducing. It’s just chocolate. He can get her some chocolate buttons to replace the eggs.

It just be a joke in our house that our dad would eat our eggs 😂

No it isn't. Children assign special value to the most random of things, for the most random reasons. If it's special to them ,it just is. Nothing nauseating about it.

She didn't eat 6 Easter eggs. She got 6, and 4 she was saving in a box, with 2 left. She still had them weeks before Easter. Her dad ate fucking 4 in one go. The kid was saving hers,pacing herself,showing self control and taking her time. Which you know, we actually want to teach our kids.

3 Easter eggs for a 7 year old is more than enough. Greedy fucker.

The 7 year old 😂?!

I really hope you're referring to the poster(still bad) ,rather than a child with that last comment.

Nothing worse than a greedy selfish man child.

Why? She's 7, so still little, probably in infant school and she has already learnt to make her chocolate last. She's put it in a special box because when you're little having something of your own to manage is a big thing. What's so sickening about that?

Is that for the 7 yr old? How absolutely nasty of you. She was saving them. She wasn't scoffing them all. Her father did however.

He took something that wasn't his. That isn't teaching her sharing. That is taking something from her without asking.

People should be able to have their own things. Even children! I wouldn't take from my children just like I wouldn't walk into your house and take something of yours.

Awful and pathetic excuses drummed up for this pathetic man.

She is 7.
And easter was weeks ago. And dont we all eat our kids chocolate?
Get a grip

This is going to sound ridiculous to many, I'm sure, but still...

As a young child, I was neglected, occasionally beaten, routinely smacked, saw a 1000 things a child should never see. The time I returned from a week away to find my precious birthday sweeties all eaten, despite me carefully saving them, genuinely stands out in my memory more than most other things. It's one of a few really clear early memories 3 decades on. Not because it was worse than those other acts, by any means; to the 4 year old me though, it evidently ranked as equally important. No one likes their things stolen by people they trusted, not even children.

I used to save the eggs my grandparents gave me for weeks. I'd have been destroyed if my parents had eaten them. I have really strong memories of enjoying a little bit each day and feeling so loved.

No we do not