Do you pinch your children's sweets?

[sweetiethief]

I am adopting a bogus identity for this.

My kids are young.
I care about their teeth.
I'm a greedy pig.

When friends visit they often bring sweets for my children but they give them to me to dispense ater dinner as I see fit.

I thank them and nod sagely then as often as not scoff them myself, for the sake of their teeth you understand.

Do any of you do this kind parental act for your darlings?

[GeorginaA]

Does that mean I'm good in that I leave "IOU" notes in ds' piggybank?!

[jasper]

I buy yummy things for myself and it gets to baby eventually through the breastmilk

[WideWebWitch]

Droile, now that I do too!

[Tinker]

Does anyone actually save those £1 and £2 coins that kids get given? I always just say I'll look after it

[Clarinet60]

someone's probably already said this, but raiding their money boxes is pretty good, too.

I found £2.50 in a 'play' money box of DS1's this morning. Pinched it and spent it, naturally.

(Don't worry, I'll pay it back with interest. One day.)

[Bozza]

I've done that too Tigermoth. I've retrieved rejected jelly babies from a pelican bib before now...

[Bumblelion]

I used to work in a sweet shop when I was 15. One of the "perks" of the job was when the kiddies came in to buy their 20p worth of sweets.

The penny-sweetie counter was down low behind a glass screen. I used to have to sit on a stool and the small children would pick out what they wanted.

Whatever they chose, I would go "one for your bag - and pop it in their sweetie bag - and one for me - and pop it in my mouth". The looks on the little ones faces.

Bit mean of me I know but the temptation was too great.

[jasper]

Marina you are quite right. I take both my professional and parental responsibilities very seriouusly!

[Inkpen]

Another party bag technique is to grab anything they don't recognise and say, 'you don't like that one, darling' ... and then eat it PDQ!

[soyabean]

Claireandrich: a CAR of chocolate?! That sounds good..

[tigermoth]

I stoop even lower - I eat my sons half eaten and rejected sweets sometimes. Waste not want not!

[Marina]

Well, Jasper, as a dentist you are especially well-placed to know about looking after small children's teeth....

[Clarinet60]

Pinching their sweets has always been one of my number one best reasons for having kids.
Yum yum.
Glad I'm not the only one.

[honeybunny]

Bought ds1 some fun size chocolate buttons for a treat after Sunday lunches, a bit of a tradition in our family. Poor boy hasn't had a single bag as I've eaten the lot. He has a dried apricot or apple ring instead. Hardly the same though is it. Sadly I dont even feel guilty about it!!

[Claireandrich]

Well, sometimes! DH is a solicitor and looks after the money of some little old ladies. The other day one of these ladies sent DD a car of chocolate which I pinched and ate that night. I was hungry!!! I love chocolate!!! I did promise to replace them with a packet of Buttons though.

Fortunately DD is only 9 months so she doesn't actually know - YET!

[jasper]

Okay Star, the game's up.
My name is Jasper, I am guilty of adopting a bogus identitiy as well as being a thief.

Please don't kick me out of mumsnet.

And what's worse,I am supposed to be following the weightwatchers diet...

How many points in a big bag of dolly mixtures and two Tweenies white chocolate bars?

[slug]

LOL Demented, reminds me of an incident (many years ago now) while at a sporting tournament. One of my teammates announced "One of the best things about being a mother of teenagers is you can confiscate these." And produced a bag of errr herbal jazz cigarettes (cough, cough, innocent look) of which we all participated.

Dh considers money given to the sluglet as beer money. His excuse, it's good for her to have a chilled daddy.

[CAM]

Depends on the kind of sweets - if I don't like them then dd can have more. If I do like them then dd can have less. Don't tell on me!

[Demented]

YES!

There have to be some benefits in having kids!

[star]

Sweetytheif,you can come clean now you're not alone.I just can't resist crappy sweets,cola bottles,love hearts I just love them.They'll thank us for it one day.Their granparents used to tell me off for eating their choccy so I just used to be more sneaky about it.Now I'm on a diet so no more for me I'm afraid.
Sobernow Two bags!You wait,you won't get away with it when they get a bit older.

[GeorginaA]

SueW - what a great idea for having friends over

Going to do that next time I want to catch up with friends without too much entertaining work!

[Marina]

I'm another martyr to the cause of my child's dental health. I draw the line at hoovering up his unwanted spinach, that's different.

[SueW]

We fight over Haribos in this house - open warfare, including DH who doesn't eat sweets normally!

We went for dinner recently with friends and ate takeaway curry in their very posh dining room, using best china etc. For pud we were brought the children's sweetie tin. Yummmmm - lots of mini bars etc to choose from.

[SoupDragon]

DS1 has just asked if he can have some Wotsits and there are none left... Gulp.

[soyabean]

Cant really keep sweets in the house, tho I am on a non dairy thing now which I seem to be able to control better than other dietary restrictions, and that helps. But I have a friend who keeps a sweetie shop in the house so the children v=can spend pocket money on Saturday. I could never do that, the shop wd be constantly out of stock and I'd have to keep buying suplies. I have been knwon to buy a family pack of kitkats or whatever on spcial offer, supposedly for lunchboxes, but only one member of the family actually was ever the 'beneficiary'. Sigh. But it is better for their little teeth isnt it.