Handling Halloween
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velvetpageHow 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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Date: 2006-10-30 05:31 pm (UTC)The reason this worked is because we usually went together so we had all the same stuff anyway and my mom always bought a bag of each of our favorites (which didn't overlap, helpfully) and those were the last bags to be opened to give out. So the leftover candy was stuff we liked, which is always better than tootsie rolls. (Which I HATE and always made up half of my stash!!) I think we had a limit of X pieces a day, but I don't remember.
We always used to dump it out with my dad and he would go through and make sure everything looked ok, which looking back on it was just his way of getting some of his favorites. (He would say things like "Oh, this doesn't look like a good piece, let's put it aside.") This only worked while we were in elementary school. ;)