Mini eggs for Mother's Day.

[ChicMiss]

I get a bag from my child. Who then asks to share them. No. Absolutely no. AIBU for a bit more thought? I don't like that I'm expected to share, they've gone off in a huff and my OH is also in a huff.

Now you're just showing off!
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Yabu really op. Why's your oh in a huff too?

I got the lariest brightly coloured (probably dyed) bunch of flowers from ds and some sweets he got from the pta stall which he immediately suggested we share because that's his favourite thing sharing things with mummy, I'm not an idiot I know he chose them because he wanted some. I don't mind because he thought of me, the flowers are outrageous but he said he thought they were the most beautiful.
We're off to the garden centre so I can choose a new tree for the garden (which is what I really wanted and DH doesn't know an apple tree from a blackberry bush he did ask because he was going to surprise me and thought better of it).

Unbelievable isn't it 🤦🏻‍♀️

I don’t just find it shocking I actually find it emotionally abusive. Kid gives mum a present and then mum basically says no fuck off I got my present now you’re not entitled to a piece of my chocolate that you made the effort to buy for me. What a rotten cow.

I think they meant the treat (eggs and thought) that the child had given the OP, rather than mother's day gift being a treat for the child.

This must be a wind up who’d be that mean with a six year old!

You begrudge sharing mini eggs with your SIX YEAR OLD CHILD??? You are being massively unreasonable. I get wanting stuff for yourself but this is not the moment to make that point, but there are better ways, and better times to make that need known. Punishing your child for doing what pretty much all kids would do in those circumstances is just downright spiteful. Mine are all young adults/late teens now and give me things without wanting to share, BECAUSE THEY ARE MATURE ENOUGH NOW TO UNDERSTAND how gift-giving works, but at 6, they would have done exactly the same.

It’s a bag of mini eggs ffs.

I’m guessing you have a dp/dh problem, not a child problem.

I’d offer them a couple of mini eggs.
My daughter can’t share my gift as she’s 8 and chose me tipsy truffles from hotel chocolat (doesn’t know what tipsy means but knows i like truffles) 😂

I'd be a bit pissed off that my other half put so little effort in! "If x chooses sweeties that they know I then have to kindly share, could you also maybe throw in a book, a candle, a bunch of flowers???. It's not hard."

I work in safeguarding refusal to share mini eggs does not meet the threshold for emotional abuse 😂

I love a mini egg.

Oh fuck off. Emotionally abusive? Get a grip. Don’t minimise people who have actually suffered child abuse.

I have shared some of my chocolate this morning with my son and DH. Son is working so bought it out of his own money.

It has never entered my head not to share some of what I get for Christmas, birthday, Easter. Mother's Day etc. I usually keep the lions share, to be fair, but to not share at all with a small child seems a bit sad.

My DS always chooses me chocolate and I always share them with him and DH. It seems a bit mean to not share them.

Log it with 101.
Get your ducks in a row.
Imagine a 6 year old asking for a mini egg - you're in a toxic relationship.

Right?
What a stupid thing to say.
I am really surprised at the replies to this thread. It’s not about the six year old, it’s her husband who’s put less than minimal effort into Mother’s Day and is now in a huff that the OP isn’t jumping through hoops over it.
Would I have shared the mini eggs? Of course I would. But I would be upset at the lack of thought or effort from my husband, and I’d tell him soz

So when your child grows up and won't share anything will you wonder where they learnt this attitude from? It cuts both ways FFS they are 6!

I'd share them but not until I was ready to open them and I would be teaching my child at 6 it is rude to give someone a gift and expect to be given some of it. If they are giving their friends sweets for birthdays they absolutely should not be expecting them to be shared.
Depends on the size of the bag how unreasonable to offer one or a few mini eggs too. Husband huffing over it sets the example child is following.

Sometimes we dont have the opportunity to grow up and mature and keep handling things in a way small children do.
Psychotherapy can help with this.

What's wrong with "just' chocolate your child has chosen though?
Honestly, I feel some people can be so grabby sometimes!
"I need x,y and z as that's not enough" 🙄😁

I think your reaction here is a sign that you’re not happy with your life.

happy person ‘thank you so much darling. I love you so much. Would you like one?’

Sounds exactly how my mother would have behaved. I haven’t spoken to her for 10 years. Make of that what you will.

Tight arse

It’s a shit, cheap, thoughtless gift.
im not saying you need hundreds spent. I got a bunch of daffs (favourite flowers!), some lovely new slippers (needed) and breakfast in bed. Homemade cards. Box of lily O’Brien chocs (again, my favourite!). Nobody has demanded I share. I will of course share them later when I open them. But my morning has been about making me feel special and appreciated. Which seems hugely lacking for the OP.