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: 2006-10-31 01:29 am (UTC)We were allowed a bunch of candy Hallowe'en night (after it was all inspected), and then could pick a few pieces each evening and on Saturday mornings. I ate myself sick a couple of times, and did learn that large amounts of candy are not my friend.
We learned to ration it out, as the stuff my mom got wasn't the same as the exotic Hallowe'en candy (some of it came from my neighbour, who did his candy shopping in the U.S.), but it was no big deal if the candy ran out, there'd be other treats.
We made it last, we didn't steal from each other's candy (I always had an excellent idea exactly what I had left anyway), and it was stored in plain sight, so no sneaking late night candy or anything like that. We'd get to pick the snacks for our lunches from the stash, which was a fun way to get us involved in thinking about preparing a lunch for the next day.
These rules all applied to us as older kids (probably at least 8), so I'd have to ask my mom what she did with us when we were smaller. Definitely more restrictions, I'm sure :)