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Trick or treating/halloween

Hi all, my 3 year old has learnt about Halloween and has shown an interest in wanting to go trick or treating this year.
The thing I’m concerned about is her collecting lots of sweets/chocolate that she may not necessarily be able to have and how you explain that they won’t be able to eat everything in one go?
Thankyou!

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I just don’t take mine trick or treating cuz there is nothing good about collecting a bunch of teeth rotting candies from strangers .its setting up bad habits too young. Just cuz they’re interested doesn’t mean I have to follow through , they don’t know any better . 💚

Here, if you take it to the dentist office, they will buy it from you. I think it’s 10cents a pound. My 3 yo also wants to go, but she has older siblings who have been talking about it for weeks. We always pick through it and allow them an allotted amount, at maybe 2-3 pieces a week. In my experience with older kids, they end up forgetting about it, and I throw it away by the 2nd week in November.

I will be taking my 3 year old this year just for the experience. I will be taking out the sweets and he will only be having a couple of the chocolates a week. You can still take them for the experience and not give them all the sweets and chocolate. I will also be hiding the Halloween bucket with it all in so they will soon forget about it

We won’t take him because frankly I think it’s a bit weird taking sweets/ chocolate from total strangers! We teach them not to do it all year round so why is it suddenly okay on Halloween?

We’re going to a kids Halloween party hosted locally instead so he can still dress up but can play games etc instead and get a treat at the end x

I was quite surprised, we let our kids have a couple of sweets and after a few days they had forgotten about them. They stayed in the buckets for months and I just gradually ate them 😂

Let the child go trick or treating! You still have to go home and examine the candy. Once you do that just separate the candies you’ll allow her to eat and portion them out.

Is there family / friends that live close that they can go to? Then you could ‘control’ what they get.

Growing up I ‘went trick & treating’, but only to my grandparents every year.

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I just go to get candy for myself she can have alittle

I love Halloween, I've never considered not celebrating with my kids. We went to a trick or treat event at the local zoo and will be going trick or treating on our street with my 3 year old. Probably hit like 10 houses and let her have a few pieces that night then she can have one after dinner going forward

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