My advice to a young parent:
First, if you are getting an Easter basket that you plan to use in
subsequent years for your little cherub, or if you are planning to
have more children, choose a very small basket. If you are trying
forgo junk food overload and plan to dilute the pounds and pounds of
chocolate with some non-edible trinkets, know that you are screwing
yourself over forever afterwards because you have just perpetuated
the “Easter is the New Christmas” ritual in your house; an idea
at which you vehemently scoffed before you had any children.
Although it might be easy to fill a basket with cheap, Chinese,
lead-laden plastic when your child is three, it becomes
exponentially difficult in subsequent years to fill that same basket
with anything for $5 that you plan to spend.
My advice is if you choose
the basket idea at all, which I highly advise to never take up in
the first place, to choose a small one (we never had Easter baskets
and we woke up early and watched my big brother find all the Easter
eggs and eat them in front of us and we all turned out fine -yes, I
know that last fact is debatable). Fill the basket to the brim with
high-quality chocolate and eat most of it yourself and when it's gone
it's gone. Plus you wont have to step on broken plastic junk for
the next six months.
If you carry the charade for
years after the kids no longer believe in the Easter Bunny, you can
just tell the kids that the Easter Bunny went bankrupt and do the
minimum and they won't even notice as long as there is some degree of
chocolate in the morning.
Or you could move to Europe
where people undoubtedly think that the Easter Bunny is the most
ridiculous thing they have ever heard of besides Santa Clause.
There you have it.
Unsolicited advice. I love to give it out and it's free.
