Handling Halloween

[velvetpage]

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.

Comments

[girlydoll.livejournal.com]

While growing up we were able to keep it and eat it at will. At home I get the boys to dump it in the middle of the room, I take out suckers and the gross candy or anything that is open and toss it in a bag and throw it away (suckers are banned at my house)

Chips get taken out and put in a special box for lunch snacks, along with bear paws or granola bars, anything snack like that could make the treck to school.

Chocolate and any other treats except for gum go in a bowl and the kids can help themselves in moderation. We ususally buy some of the big bags of chocolate after Halloween as it is EXTREAMLY cheap, so the kids really don't care.

Gum goes with me to work with some left in the house, but generally I don't let them chew much gum either. Connors better at not swallowing it now but still, I dunno.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

Why are suckers banned?

[girlydoll.livejournal.com]

I personally do not like suckers because I almost always end up with a sticky stick stuck somewhere. I also worry about them shoving them to far down their throats and gagging, they don't do it often, but Gabriel did it ONCE and that was all it took for me to be very worried for the rest of their lives. I also find or at least think of Suckers to be a pure sugar blob on the end of a stick, I know they are probably the same amount of bad as a chocolate bar or chips, but I dunno, to me it seems worse. The kids know this though and really don't care as they don't like suckers as much as the other stuff either.

With the exception of Jolly Rancher suckers, those I can eat all day long,,, OHHH YUM!