Originally posted by stwhannah
My kids think I am the most evil mother ever. Their advent calendar appeared (little wooden houses). Lots of excitement. Until they opened them. No chocolates, no sweets. Just tasks, like ‘tidy your room’, ‘ring Grandma and tell her about your day’, ‘draw a picture’, and ‘put away all your clean clothes’. There are some treats mixed in, but mostly it’s chores. There was a stage where they were refusing to open their advent calendar. I quite like watching their reaction as they try to hide their disgust (back chat would result in a telling off). To be fair, I probably am evil
I was wrapping my wife presents last night and ate some chocolate I bought her. My self control is bad at the best of times but this was a new low for me!
For our boy we have a wooden truck which we fill with chocolate each day in the correct number, so he can’t eat them all. Unfortunately I keep eating the chocolates as I fill it up…1 for him, 2 for me…
I bought my wife some chocolates in Selfridges and ate them in the queue because I was hungry and it was taking ages.
As for your lad, tell him that if he does that again you’ll make him explore the trapdoor under your mat.