Not mean at all. A wooden advent calender you can reuse, a chocolate calnder you can’t. You consideration for their intake of sweets shows love and care

We always got our chocolate calenders but now they are tweens they get beauty calenders.

Kids often think their parents are mean. Don’t worry you’re just being smart.

Mini chocolates added to the wooden advent calendar might be an alternative?

We do a mixture of chocolate and non chocolate advent items. We have a balanced approach and do not go overboard with expensive advent calendars.

Nope. My main problem isn’t the chocolate, it’s the expense. I have a set of 24 mini christmas stockings that serve as our advent calendar, and I add chocolates to a couple of those; the rest are messages like “do something nice for someone tomorrow”.

If they want a chocolate one then maybe on a few days of the wooden advent calendar you can hide a small treat like a kinder surprise in there or one of those fun sized chocolates?
That way they will get a variety of things and not just chocolate!

I’m a no- my kids don’t need Xbox everyday. I’ve been looking for one with a story you read a bit of each day like we had growing wbut can’t find ine

Do what’s best for you! I bought the chocolate one this year but honestly, they didn’t even open theirs every day because they didn’t get excited over a chocolate everyday. Next year i think I’ll buy little things to put in they can use or find more useful than just a chocolate

I dont do chocolate. We have a large wooden one with drawers that I fill with small treats.

Don’t buy the chocolate ones any more. I do however, have a big large wooden house/workshop one that’s big enough to put a favourites chocolate in each door (with the ornament that’s also in there, they get hung up on the house)
This is shared now between 3 kids, they just take in turns of opening it