Handling Halloween

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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

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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!