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velvetpage) wrote2006-10-30 12:12 pm
velvetpage) wrote2006-10-30 12:12 pm
Handling Halloween
How does your family handle Halloween?
Specifically - what do you do about the candy? Do you pool it for family use? Dole it out a few pieces at a time? Let kids keep it in their rooms, to be eaten at their discretion? Let kids decide when to eat it, and accept the consequences themselves, or let them decide with some limits - for instance, no candy before lunchtime? Do you allow kids to have separate stashes of candy that their siblings aren't allowed to have, and if so, how do you handle accusations of theft?
This isn't a big issue for us yet - we're still at the dole-it-out stage, and she doesn't notice if I eat some of her candy. :) But it will start to become an issue, and I want to be prepared when it does.
Specifically - what do you do about the candy? Do you pool it for family use? Dole it out a few pieces at a time? Let kids keep it in their rooms, to be eaten at their discretion? Let kids decide when to eat it, and accept the consequences themselves, or let them decide with some limits - for instance, no candy before lunchtime? Do you allow kids to have separate stashes of candy that their siblings aren't allowed to have, and if so, how do you handle accusations of theft?
This isn't a big issue for us yet - we're still at the dole-it-out stage, and she doesn't notice if I eat some of her candy. :) But it will start to become an issue, and I want to be prepared when it does.
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We usually have some limits - nothing before lunch, only so many pieces per day. They keep it in their room and really I haven't have any issues with it getting snuck by either themselves or anyone else. There is trading during the couple of days afterward. Extra candy left from us giving out is sent off immediately to Dad's office so it's only their actual "haul" candy around. Their intake is definitely up for a little bit but twice a year (Halloween, Easter) I figure its no big. They eat plenty of healthy stuff all the time.
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