Monday Teeny Poll
By GlindaLast week’s poll addressed attitudes toward homeschooling and people who choose that option. Multiple choices were allowed, and the category with the largest percentage of votes was the “imparting religious instruction not given in public school” with almost sixty percent. Now, that may or may not be true, but I had a feeling that was a perception among most people. The next category with the most votes with fifty one percent was, “their views differ from the mainstream.” I thought it was a really interesting poll, and I thank you all for your honesty.
Now, doing my normal thing of zooming into an entirely different subject, I’ve got one about candy and how much candy kids get during holidays and celebrations. This weekend, my son got more candy than he could ever eat. Now, what to do with it?
March 24th, 2008 at 11:58 am
We pretty much give as little to the kids and as much as possible to us.
March 24th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
My oldest son is highly allergic to food dye, and doesn’t really eat candy anyway, so we just don’t get any. Since it is a bad and very visible allergy, all grandparents and friends are very respectful of this. My youngest doesn’t seem to mind getting money and small gifts at the holidays instead of candy, and at Halloween we trick or treat for UNICEF.
March 24th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
I let them gorge themsleves on it to get out out of the house asap. We never have candy at home anyway if it’s not a “candy holiday” (Halloween, Valentine’s Day and Easter) There is no virtue here - it’s my who has husband has no self control!
I find birthhday party goody bags and school party junk to be much worse, those get tossed as soon as we get home, so whatever they want they must be consumed immediately.
March 24th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
The Annalucia has but one child left at home, the ten-year-old Riccardino, and while he will trick-or-treat and receive candy during parties, he does not actually eat much of it. It is the Annalucia’s custom to (1) let him have what he wants (2) filch out the chocolate for herself (yes, yes, she knows she should not do this) and (3) throw out the rest. Most of it is cheap anyway, and not worth the eating.
March 24th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
We try to go light on the candy, and then let them consume it at their own pace. Except Halloween, which brings obscene amounts of sugar, so we practiced rationing.
March 24th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
I tried to include birthdays and such with the catch-all “celebrations” term.
And it isn’t ME that gives him candy, it’s everyone ELSE.
March 24th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
I think I need to rent me some children. What kind of a haul are we looking at for a typical six-year-old nowadays? When I was little we’d get one big egg or bunny and maybe two dozen little ones, which would last maybe three days at the outside. I realized times had changed when my stepmother gave her children ROLLERBLADES for Easter, but that was the Eighties…What now? iPods?