Personally speaking, I'm not that hot on Halloween either - I get the appeal if you're an adult with kids, or even just someone who likes cosplay and parties, but me and my family usually go out and skip the rush. And while my parents never threw out candy, that was because I was pretty good at controlling myself. They didn't overfeed me and I've never had a huge sweet tooth; for most kids, especially kids used to caffeine and sweets, I think getting rid of the candy after a while is a good idea. After all, being able to successfully wait for a marshmallow leads to success later in life.
And guys, come on. Rage over candy? Really? Missing out on some candy is, in the grand scheme of things, ridiculously trivial. It's Halloween. Calm down. Go sit and look at nature, or listen to some music, or something. Rage over someone else's decision about their child's candy is a sad way to go out.
The point is, people read a tweet and think that's the whole person. (Like a frog in a well looking up and thinking he's seeing the whole sky.) And people ought to quit doing that. As for the candy, well, by the time they were six, it wouldn't have taken more than one Hallowe'en for my kids to start squirrelling it away BEFORE Mama got her hands on it.
I'm pretty liberal. When my daughter was a child, wife and I attended a discussion series on a book about raising girls. One week it centered on an episode in which the daughters of a strictly religious family checked all the 'adult' boxes by age 21- marriage, family, etc followed and they seemed happy. Daughters of a liberal family were a stark contrast- drug problems, teenage pregnancy, divorce despite what seemed good modeling by parents. The discussion centered on all kinds of purported reasons for the different outcomes because cons/ devout religious parents must be worse than libs like those present. It was interesting. My own kids turned out pretty good, mostly by dumb luck.
Personally speaking, I'm not that hot on Halloween either - I get the appeal if you're an adult with kids, or even just someone who likes cosplay and parties, but me and my family usually go out and skip the rush. And while my parents never threw out candy, that was because I was pretty good at controlling myself. They didn't overfeed me and I've never had a huge sweet tooth; for most kids, especially kids used to caffeine and sweets, I think getting rid of the candy after a while is a good idea. After all, being able to successfully wait for a marshmallow leads to success later in life.
And guys, come on. Rage over candy? Really? Missing out on some candy is, in the grand scheme of things, ridiculously trivial. It's Halloween. Calm down. Go sit and look at nature, or listen to some music, or something. Rage over someone else's decision about their child's candy is a sad way to go out.
Great points Carl, great points.
Thank you!
I just threw out my kids candy....
The point is, people read a tweet and think that's the whole person. (Like a frog in a well looking up and thinking he's seeing the whole sky.) And people ought to quit doing that. As for the candy, well, by the time they were six, it wouldn't have taken more than one Hallowe'en for my kids to start squirrelling it away BEFORE Mama got her hands on it.
I gotta think she was trolling. How do you not know that a statement that you are throwing out the kids Halloween candy is provocative?
Looking for today's outrage.
I'm pretty liberal. When my daughter was a child, wife and I attended a discussion series on a book about raising girls. One week it centered on an episode in which the daughters of a strictly religious family checked all the 'adult' boxes by age 21- marriage, family, etc followed and they seemed happy. Daughters of a liberal family were a stark contrast- drug problems, teenage pregnancy, divorce despite what seemed good modeling by parents. The discussion centered on all kinds of purported reasons for the different outcomes because cons/ devout religious parents must be worse than libs like those present. It was interesting. My own kids turned out pretty good, mostly by dumb luck.