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What do you all do with regard to Easter pressie for children?

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joelalie · 16/03/2006 13:48

Do you give chocolates …eggs or otherwise. Do you give presents or money instead. Don’t you bother?

DH reckons that we should give our three toys/books instead of chocolate. He, not unreasonably, worries about the amount of sugar that they will eat. I don’t agree – I think they have more than enough toys and giving them money will only make them more materialistic - the eldest 2 already love getting their hands on ready cash…Sad I believe that if we are going to celebrate the festival at all it might as well be in a more traditional fashion (as a spring celebration rather than purely a Christian festival I mean) and give eggs of some kind. I don’t want it to turn into another feast of acquisitiveness. OK, I know sugar is not good for them but it’s not as if they are given a sugar-free diet the rest of the year anyway. Bear in mind also that whatever we decide the rest of the family will probably give chocolate anyway.

What is anyone else doing?

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desperateSCOUSEwife · 16/03/2006 14:50

eggs and loads of as i want to scoff some too
get them a present that is around £20 each too.

Enid · 16/03/2006 14:50

church
easter egg hunt

this year dd1 is allowed to choose any easter egg she wants from the chocolate shop as a present for doing so brilliantly at school/having to be a dancer in the easter production (she is shy and this is torture for her)

sweetly dd1 likes Easter better than Christmas

Pixel · 16/03/2006 14:53

My kids get loads of eggs from grandparents etc. Before they were old enough to count I did quite well out of it Blush.

Pixel · 16/03/2006 14:55

Of course I was only doing it for their benefit. I couldn't possibly let the little cherubs eat all that chocolate!

mawbroon · 16/03/2006 15:24

joelalie - sorry no offense intended. I am not including anything egg related when I refer to an Easter present.

I agree that eggs are an appropriate gift to give at Easter because of what they represent, but I used to work in a department store which marketed all sorts of things as "Easter presents" which I never understood - other than the shop pushing to make extra money. Things like tea towels for example. I don't see the connection between a tea towel and Easter, yet people were queing up to buy this kind of stuff because they were on a stand saying "don't forget Easter" or some such thing.

I feel that chidren should understand why they are being given eggs as I am saddened that for many Easter=chocolate without knowing why.

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joelalie · 16/03/2006 15:45

'S OK Mawbroon...didn't mean to be 'chippy' Wink. I agree that Easter pressies should be Easter-related rather than just another gift-giving opportunity...which is my argument with DH. But I know lots of parents who never let their kids eat sweets and I do worry about the amount that mine eat sometimes.

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cupcakes · 16/03/2006 16:39

ds likes Easter better than Christmas too. But then he is a chocolate fiend like his mother.

nutcracker · 16/03/2006 16:42

Mine usually just get an egg but have gone a bit OTT this year.

Dd1 has got a W.I.T.C.H duvet cover she's been after, Dd2 is having the ugly Fureal monkey and Ds has got the FiFi forget me not cottage.

nutcracker · 16/03/2006 16:42

TBH i'd rather get mine a toy or something because they get too much choccie of other relatives anyway.

foxinsocks · 16/03/2006 16:44

we do choc Easter eggs (though dd and dh are chocoholics, ds and I don't really do chocolate so I normally get him some sweets instead)

we also hard boil 6 eggs (boil for ages and then leave in the fridge overnight) - the kids get to paint 3 each and then on Sunday afternoon, we go to a park with a big hill and have egg races till they have all been smashed to smitherines. Tis great fun and we get to walk off all the chocolate at the same time!

foxinsocks · 16/03/2006 16:45

oh yes, we also have a little easter egg hunt in the garden (because the Easter Bunny leaves the eggs there for them to find Wink)

expatinscotland · 16/03/2006 17:13

we go to Mass at 10AM - get all dressed up. the girls wear their best dresses. DH was christened in the Church of Scotland but he never practiced it.

we don't buy her any chocolate, b/c she gets loads from both sets of grandparents and aunties.

she gets an Easter basket (American tradition) with a book, a cuddly and a DVD instead.

i make carrot cake and we have a traditional Easter lunch after Mass.

if we're in the States, my mum always has a big family party w/events for the kids - egg hunt, spoon race, etc.

DH and I exchange chocolate eggs - Green & Black, please!

hockeymum · 16/03/2006 17:22

We do an easter egg hunt in the garden for dd before church which she really loves. Her grandparents and great granny always buy her a new summer dress for easter each so I'm not about to rain on that tradition as they don't buy her clothes at other times, and it saves me the effort (although I often have to go and change them saying to grqandparents in law that the dress is "faulty" as it is so repulsive she'll never wear it and change it for a nice one without bows and collars that are bigger than the dress itself!!). It's quite a nice idea really to have new clothes for the spring. I wouldn't want her to get too used to lots of presents at easter too though!

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