Am I allowed to unwrap ds's present from neighbour (which I strongly suspect is MONSTER tube of smarties), bung in something lentilly, and rewrap tonight when he is in bed?

[FrannyandZooey]

Or not?

Really no

only if you hide the evidence .. in your stomach

not!

What child wants a tube of lentils for Christmas???

No. Not allowed. You have to let him eat the entire tube for breakfast, vomit them all back up again, and Learn His Lesson.

what will you replace it with

some autumn leaves for a nature collage?

a tube of assorted pulses to make a rainmaker?

hmm

if it is Smarties I will give to dp

if buttons I will eat

actually if buttons I may even let the bugger have them

I said MAY

No. No no no no no a thousand times no, you meanie.

Does he have sweets?

Not allowed. Christmas is the one time a year your ds should be able to eat cr*p, IMO.

really? no?

you do surprise me

Twig great ideas, thanks

no you have to use them as a lesson in counting

he is allowed one a day from now until he is 19

I wouldn't

he doesn't have shitey sweets usually

he has decent chocolate and stuff occasionally, oh and some laughable health food 'sweets' which are some kind of dried reconstituted fruit mush

mmmmm

i knew this had to be your thread, the question is , what to replace it with.
You could reduce the volume of the smarties.
He would never know, would still enjoy some of them and you could as well

it's a really big tube

of course it may not be a tube of smarties, it may be a tube of bulgar wheat, but I reckon I know the rattle of a smartie when I hear one

as a non-lentilly type

I wouldn't let anyone give my kids bumper size collections of chocolates to be honest

I just would confiscate them .. like they'll know in the multitude of too many presents that they're missing a vomit-inducing gift

Darrell another top idea

will you all be horrified if I say last year neighbours gave him lorry sized sack of haribo and ds didn't get a single one?

Let him have them. Eating what you want is a part of Christmas. You can only take them off him if you can assure us that you and DH will not be partaking of a festive tipple or eating and chocolates.

ooh gosh there are two presents actually

the other is square

what grim food could that be?

now you're talking.
In this house all haribo from party bags mysteriously disappears to be eaten by mummy at a later date.
Or. let him open it, eat a few and then take it away until after tea , and then again, mysterious disappearance

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Let him have his Christmas pig-out - it's only once a year.

don't drink now you happen to mention it Mummy Giraffe [smug]

we just went shopping and he got to choose loads of things he likes, it isn't going to be bread and water

he is getting chocolate in his stocking

uuuungh Darrell you eat them YOURSELF? VolunTARILY?