Why you should give chocolate to children

Things I have heard children say #3

I can not remember how I got into this conversation about chocolate with (we'll call him) Earthling, but somehow I found myself extolling the virtues of the dark sweet to this 8 year old. Explaining what an anti-oxidant was and why they were important to stopping free radical damage to your cells. How chocolate contained lots of antioxidants, but only if you got the dark kind that contained at least 70% coco mass. And finally how you could eat this type of chocolate every day and it was good for you (I don't know what I was thinking really, having this conversation with an 8 year old boy).
Earthling's face got brighter and brighter as I got further and further into my explanation. When I was finally exhausted by my talk of chocolate he looked me in the face and said in a very serious voice "You have to tell my mom this!!" He then told me of his personal snack drawer at home, where he had a large selection of healthy snacks that he could chose from at any time of day. This drawer was just for him. He had concluded, from my excellent lecture on the virtues of chocolate, that this wonderful candy should now be included in his "healthy" snack drawer. I was to remember to tell his mother everything I had just told him when she came to pick him up that day.
The end of the day roles around and children are being picked up by their parents here and there. Suddenly Earthlings mother comes up to me. She tells me that Earthling has insisted that she talk to me, that I have something very important to tell her. Earthling is standing near by, all ears attentive to my words. So I tell her. All about chocolate and it's various virtues. At this point Earthling surges in, slyly suggesting that he could have chocolate in his snack drawer, you know, because it is so good for you. She says maybe. He presses his point.
I give her a look as if to say "I'm sorry, I was trying to teach him about anti-oxidants and cellular repair mechanisms, really I was"