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parenting chat q: they want their kids to go trick or treating but don't know how to "handle" all the candy they get.

Posted by poxie (aka chris) Oct 27 '11, 12:00

HALLOWEEN CANDY

Hi -- do you have any thoughts about how to handle Halloween candy? I have 5 and 7 year old boys, who will collect a ton of candy trick-or-treating. Do we let them keep it all or buy some back? Dole it out or let them decide when to eat it (with some restirctions). We try to restrict sweets during the year, but it's a constant struggle and they are sweets-crazy.

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Find the local dentist that is doing a candy "trade-in" for cash -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 27, 12:43
I have no idea when it occurred, but I have no memory of my parents holding our trick or treat loot. - Name Withheld By Request Oct 27, 12:08 7
- We were allowed 5 pieces a day for a few days, and then the rest went to my father. - kelly Oct 27, 12:47
- me too, it was ours, we could do what we wanted with it. we were reminded every year that when it was gone, it was gone for good, but - Andie Oct 27, 12:42 1
  - (well, the good stuff.) -- nm - Andie Oct 27, 12:44
- we had restrictions. one pillow sack that night and the rest the next day -- nm - The Legend of CQ Hollow Oct 27, 12:10 1
  - a whole damn pillow sack! -- nm - poxie Oct 27, 12:11
- yeah, we always kept ours growing up, no restrictions -- nm - 4,198,574,430 Oct 27, 12:09
- hell naws! we just ate until we got sick of eating it - poxie Oct 27, 12:09
Dole it out. Bub gets a choice of a couple pieces of candy or whetever we are having for desert each night. -- nm - Spawn Oct 27, 12:07 4
- That was about what we did, though we pretty much let them go to town on the stuff on Halloween itself. -- nm - pmb Oct 27, 12:13 3
  - He gets a few, but he is four. - Spawn Oct 27, 12:47 2
    - 1 piece per year. So this year he gets four. :) -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 27, 12:47 1
      - I am just waiting for him to realize he can ask me to check some while we are still walking around. - Spawn Oct 27, 12:50
how old are these people? -- nm - loosilu Oct 27, 12:07 1
- 15 -- nm - decline Oct 27, 12:07
our generation that are parents are a bunch of effing morons - The Legend of CQ Hollow Oct 27, 12:06 4
- also, just trick or treat a certain amount of houses that way you don't get that much candy. - The Legend of CQ Hollow Oct 27, 12:09 3
  - we'll trick or treat about as far as I'm willing to carry an Ewok. and then we're done. -- nm - TFox Oct 27, 12:16
  - we got to enjoy plenty candy that night, but after a while the bags were taken away and we had candy in the house for weeks. - Divali Oct 27, 12:14 1
    - For me, I got through the "good" candy in about a week. Then just the "bad" candy was left, and it lasted forever. -- nm - loosilu Oct 27, 12:27
jeebus - try being a parent. you can't let 5 and 7 yr old kids who are sweets-crazy decide when to eat their ginormous stash of friggin candy. - Divali Oct 27, 12:06
We have a candy drawer. Everything goes in it and we have to be asked to get into it. - Jim Oct 27, 12:05 6
- On Halloween night, though, we do let them go overboard on candy. It's one frickin' night to just be a glutton. They love it. - Jim Oct 27, 12:08 3
  - plus, how else do you expect them to stay up for the Samhain festival? -- nm - 4,198,574,430 Oct 27, 12:11 1
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  - this is what we used to do. -- nm - loosilu Oct 27, 12:09
- VNP! -- nm - mara Oct 27, 12:07
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Let them decide? They would eat it all Halloween night then the parents - amoxy Oct 27, 12:04
how did these kids to be 5 & 7 with parents like this? - Epiphany Oct 27, 12:01
OFFS. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 27, 12:01 9
- If, in 5 years, I'm here asking questions like this outside of the "So, just curious on others' methods cuz here's my method"...shoot me. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 27, 12:02 1
  - we will, don't worry -- nm - Epiphany Oct 27, 12:05
- apparently this is a big issue with parents lately. "well they got a shit ton of candy but we can't just let them EAT it can we?" -- nm - poxie Oct 27, 12:02 6
  - "Little Boy Metz, you get 5 pieces tonight to eat, 3 to insert into your nose, and 2 have to sit on your nightstand to teach you restraint." -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 27, 12:04 1
    - L3! -- nm - Epiphany Oct 27, 12:07
  - well WE all turn out all right - so they really *could* just let them eat it - but common damn sense says to dole it out -- nm - Epiphany Oct 27, 12:03 3
    - for a given value of "all right" - 4,198,574,430 Oct 27, 12:07 2
      - also "really", "eat", "common damn sense", and "dole". -- nm - TFox Oct 27, 12:11
      - true :) -- nm - Epiphany Oct 27, 12:10
we dole it out...and I usually end up eating most of it and bringing the rest into work -- nm - Evil Beaker Oct 27, 12:01 2
- yeah, suck it lil' beakers! -- nm - poxie Oct 27, 12:01 1
  - B8 -- nm - Creepy Dude Bingo Oct 27, 12:17

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