In not wanting DS to have an advent calendar?

[Frostyfield]

I am very much in favour of healthy eating but even I don’t mind a minuscule bit of chocolate every morning.

The problem is DS is too young to understand what an advent calendar is and why he’s getting a bit of chocolate so every morning after a bit of chocolate he was crying and pointing at the advent calendar wanting more. (Grandparents got it for him.) In the end I just put it away and no harm done.

Now DH has got it back out and thinks DS is missing out. AIBU about it? To me, tantrums every morning over a tiny bit of chocolate aren’t worth it.

Our just turned two year old has one. We've put it on a door so that he can't reach it. Sometimes he asks for more and kicks off a little but overall the anticipation and excitement for chocolate means that the positives outweigh the negatives in our house.

I'm trying to use the calendar to teach the concept of 'tomorrow' before Christmas eve, so that I can explain that there will be 'presents tomorrow'.

Do well behaved, well nourished, healthy children everywhere offend you routinely?

If you Google 'German Advent Calendar', Traditional Advent Calendar' you get this kind of thing:

alpenschatz.co.uk/products/traditional-german-advent-calendars-3d-large

They're not all religious, lots of Christmassy scenes etc. Not a chocolate in sight and just like the ones we had growing up.

Masses on Amazon.

www.traditionaladventcalendars.co.uk/

I am buying from here next year for my granddaughter @Frostyfield they look lovely.

If it help - our dog doesn’t understand why we won’t keep opening all the windows on her advent calendar either. She’s worked out it’s DDs job to open the window and there’s no point trying to get the rest of us to open it, but then she barks angrily in the calendars general direct until it’s put away.

refillable wooden / pockets calendar, fill one pocket each night. Job done.

Never had chocolate advent calendars for this reason.They are teens now & seemed to have survived.

We had picture calendars - its a lovely start to the day.

Oh this has popped up on my “I’m on” from last year! DDog doesn’t have an advent calendar this year, we all decided it wasn’t worth the barking.

the dcs are too old to believe but we still have the fabric refillable calendars for them and they asked to just have one pocket filled each night “by the elves” so they aren’t tempted to just scoff them all.

Weird, it popped up as an active thread. Didnt realise it was from last year!!

Haha I got a notification from this thread as I was on it last year.
DS is 3.5 now, enjoying his advent calendar and NOT waking up early for it this year 😅 it's still the first thing he mentions but at 730, not 5.

Completely agree, we had this with DS and I’d never repeat it. I also wouldn’t want him to miss out, so now so elves/faeries/whatever you have in your house leave a single chocolate out each morning so he doesn’t focus on wanting them all at once. They’re left in one of last year’s musical biscuit Tina which magically plays a tune when the elves have been. We also have a paper advent calendar.