Children should be allowed to have some chocolate at Easter time. Everything in moderation.

I agree! I’ve noticed how Easter has now become a marketing tool for so many businesses now with everything from stationery, toys, PJs, apparel, etc. Let’s just keep it simple – a few Easter Eggs to eat across a few days then done.

IF the are given gifts how am I supposed to sneak a chocolate from them lol

A few Easter eggs surely can’t be that bad, besides I will help them eat them.

Nope, i am the one found eating chocolate for breakfast so I certainly can’t tell my kids not to.

My kids are now grown up but when they were smaller I would only give them a Easter Bunny and one small Easter Egg and the grandparents always gave them PJs at my request

I’m not sure how I feel as my kids are still very little, we did a chocolate free gift last year because my boys were only 1 years old. This year they will get a little chocolate.

Everything in moderation, has always been my mantra

I don’t like to give them too much sugar.

I’m the opposite, I think I give way too much chocolate because I have such a sweet tooth.
Presents of other sorts are good too but I like to keep to tradition lol.

This article keeps referring to ‘a couple’ or ‘a few’ Easter eggs but generally, between friends and family it’s more like a shopping bag full of chocolate. It ends up making my kid feel miserable, upset stomach, the runs, mood swings. I don’t mind being the Grinch, I can’t expect an eight year old to regulate himself around that much chocolate.

Everything is fine in moderation. I don’t like to encourage greedy behaviour, but chocolate is definitely meant to be enjoyed.

I remember this article from last year. We certainly do some chocolates, but don’t do really gifts with Easter. We like to go to church with Easter and celebrate that Jesus died and rose again. All the chocolates bunnies chicks and eggs hide the real meaning for me.

I think moderation is the key. You don’t want children feeling ill from too much chocolate.

We used to buy presents and give them on the Friday. Sunday they got the egg hunt and chocolate. It’s once a year, enjoy it.

We have a different tradition for Easter and we are not going to over with chocolate

We give our kids a nice bundle of eggs, and the only rule about eating them is not immediately before a meal, and they get a reminder not to eat so many in one go that they make themselves sick. And we give one non-chocolate present (like a book).

No we’re not but the kids grandparents are!

We are doing Easter pjs, an Easter book, Easter egg chalk, crayons and a couple of chocolate eggs, our son is only 18 months old so he doesn’t really eat chocolate

As long as the kids aren’t gorging themselves I am sure it’s fine! My brother and I were never overweight or unhealthy and yet we celebrated Easter each year. It’s just about moderation and not over indulging