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What would you do about Easter for a child who still hasn't eaten half of their Christmas chocolate?

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FrannyandZooey · 03/03/2008 09:08

This is the first year ds has realised you are 'meant' to get chocolate for Easter. I usually get him some other kind of present (eg book, toy, whatever)

the thing is he got a few chocolate bits in his stocking at Christmas (and was given more by friends) and is nowhere near finishing them. He's allowed some every day after a meal if he asks, but he only remembers about once a fortnight. So there's plenty left. I don't see the point of getting more.

Plus I know some people will but I don't particularly want him eating chocolate every day, plus could do without the idea that every festival has to be celebrated with lots of crappy confectionery (we have plenty of treats and nice food etc but not always a ton of chocolate). However he knows what is in the shops, and that people get Easter eggs. I don't want him to feel hard done by. What would you do?

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fishie · 03/03/2008 09:08

get him a non edible eggy toy then.

winestein · 03/03/2008 09:12

I would buy one of those paper mache eggs which split in two and fill it with non-edibles and instill in him that people receive eggs - not necessarily chocolate ones.

winestein · 03/03/2008 09:12

pmsl at "eggy toy"

NoBiggy · 03/03/2008 09:18

We still have last year's Easter bunny sitting on the shelf, and a bit of Easter egg.

I should think this year's will sit right alongside him!

I feel bad about Easter gifts generally, it's become Christmas part 2, and part 1 is quite bad enough. However that's the way it seems to have become. Rellies will buy chocolate. Don't think I will. We may decorate some eggs, they seem to enjoy that more than chocolate (there's no accounting...)

If the amount of chocolate really gets out of hand, melt it down for a cake.

EffiePerine · 03/03/2008 09:20

Easter egg hunt with non-choclate eggs? (decorated ones, egg toys, fabric eggs)?

filthymindedvixen · 03/03/2008 09:23

My boys often get an easter present from rellies - we ask for books!

Franny, help him celebrate Easter as a festival of Spring, rebirth and the regeneration of the earth! Paint eggs, fill plastic eggs with little chicks instead of chocolate etc. Do egg rolling. Visit some lambs. Pick daffoldils etc. You still have time to swing the whole thing a little bit way from the whole Festival Of Chocolate
And let him have sme tiny (fairtrade) eggs on Easter Sunday and tell him that's it!

And tell him that the shops are full of chocolate because evil chocolate manufacturers know that most people are too stupid to realise it is all a huge marketing ploy...

LadyMuck · 03/03/2008 09:24

I don't think that you really need to worry too much. Have a think about why you personally celebrate Easter. If you don't, then I wouldn't do anything other than explain other people do and they will want to give him chocolate eggs. If you do celerbate it either as a religious festival or simply marking say the end of winter, then do something that is special and appropriate for you.

I live in multi-cultural London, and given the fact that the dcs have Muslim, Hindu, Greek Orthodox and Chinese children in the class there are no shortage of festivals clebrated and the dcs know that not all are relevant for them.

DualCycloneCod · 03/03/2008 09:24

yuk it must be oild now
bin it

TurkeyLurkey · 03/03/2008 09:28

Blimey all I can say is you must have some willpower. Me and DH scoff our kids chocolate as soon as it gets in the house! Send any excess our way!!

belgo · 03/03/2008 09:29

if he likes playmobil, what about here

serenity · 03/03/2008 09:36

We never buy chocolate at Easter. The DCs get far too much from everyone else and, like you, we tend to have Christmas chocolate left over as well. It's a bit confusing for us anyway as we're nominally Greek Orthodox (well Dh and the DCs) so we end up having two Easters, 3 years out of 4 (it's only the 'English' one that does chocolate though)

Dcs are used to getting a DVD from us (or colouring books, or things to do during the school holiday) They never expect eggs from us because we've never bought them, and I promise you they don't feel hard done by

cornsilk · 03/03/2008 09:37

Lego are doing an easter toy.

belgo · 03/03/2008 09:39

lego easter toy

Tickle · 03/03/2008 09:40

Here in Denmark chocolate eggs aren't such a big thing...

but rolling hard-boiled painted eggs down a hill is a local tradition which the kids love I think you get a prize if yours gets to the bottom in one piece.

But I'm with TurkeyLurkey on the chocolate

Kbear · 03/03/2008 09:41

Get him Woolworths voucher instead and ask the rellies to do the same then he can have a big spend up on a toy he really wants.

I'm giving my kids a few dollars each because we are going to America for our holiday in May. The chocolate thing does get out of hand. One egg, maybe two but some years it's ten each.

Then I have to eat them !

Lazycow · 03/03/2008 09:41

I'm sorry F&Z I can't give any advice, I'm just too 'd that you have Christmas chocolate left. Ds certainly didn't eat all his but I did before the New Year

DualCycloneCod · 03/03/2008 09:42

so fi they give him some
let him have one or so and then tell him vaguley he ate it all up

it doesnt need to be a bi deal
mine haev asked fo a fiver instead this year

DoodleToYou · 03/03/2008 09:43

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StealthPolarBear · 03/03/2008 09:46

I would help him out by eating it for him

southeastastra · 03/03/2008 09:46

tesco have tons of crafts for easter, paint your own egg, cup etc, make rabbit puppets, there's literally tons of stuff.

Fennel · 03/03/2008 09:48

Ours don't get that many easter eggs (to my disappointment, as a chocophile, but all our relatives are terrified of giving our children chocolates and sweets in case we Disapprove). but we do egg hunts round the garden, you can use all sorts of things - boiled eggs decorated, toy eggs, toy rabbits and chicks. We do treasure hunts (you can do drawn clues for pre-readers, hide them in hollow toy eggs).

fuzzywuzzy · 03/03/2008 09:50

sooo, one is actually not meant to eat the chocolates given to their children as gifts??? I'd have eaten the bulk of it, and my girls would have gotten a small amount over time, we dont have any christmas chocolate left over for that very reason........

Tommy · 03/03/2008 09:51

DH and I tend to eat the leftovers

(and you have just rmeinded me that we have christmas chocolate left over too )

violetskies · 03/03/2008 10:14

DD was once still eating her Easter eggs at Xmas. After that I started buying her a toy and a Kinder Egg you no the small ones with a toy in it. I NEVER spend more than £20 on her including the egg, in the past she has had slides, swings and seesaws, she is an October baby and I would of got them for her anyway I just brought them for her at Easter instead of an egg

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FrannyandZooey · 03/03/2008 10:18

ooh sorry got distracted and forgot to come back

thanks for all responses
no he won't get eggs from gps or rellies, it is not a tradition we have
we do the egg rolling and what not and usually take him to an event where they hide small chocolate eggs or whatever, so he does get treats
I just think this is the first time he has realised that according to the gods of cadbury and mars, every child is meant to get a shed load of big eggs
I wondered if he would mind if he didn't

I like the playmobil and fill a plastic egg with toys idea

I don't need to eat his chocolate, as I just buy some for me if I want some

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