Parents,
what do you do with all the candy your children get during Halloween? Do you let them eat all they want? Do you put a limit to one candy per day? Do you get tired of having all that candy around
your home? Do you not like your children
to have all of that candy because it is not good for them or for you?
Solution. Have the Candy Fairy visit your home! Every year since our children began
trick-or-treating, the Candy Fairy has stopped by our home. The Candy Fairy will visit your home in the
middle of the night on Halloween or even the next night. Whenever it is convenient to your
family. The Candy Fairy magically visits
your home and takes the bags of candy that is laid by the front door. She will leave a gift or money in exchange
for the candy. Similar to what the tooth
fairy does. The tooth fairy will take a
tooth and leave money.
Benefit. There is not an excess of candy around your
home, making each person in the home unhealthy.
The children also get an opportunity to have fun on Halloween and they
end up with something they would enjoy just as much as the candy.
This is how
it works in our home. My children will
collect candy at school and church functions.
They will also collect it during trick-or-treating. They then get to eat a couple of pieces along
the way as well as pick 10 of their favorite pieces of candy and put it in a Ziploc
bag. The pretzels, chips and other items
like this is set to the side and given out throughout the week in their lunches
or given as snacks. Prizes or money
collected by each child is also kept for themselves. My children then put the rest of the candy into
bags which will be set at the front door for the Candy Fairy.
When the
Candy Fairy comes, she collects the candy and leaves the prize or money. She then will take all the candy that she has
collected from all of the homes to other boys and girls throughout the world
that were not able to celebrate Halloween.
Dr. Pam Tomaszycki, D.C.
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