Schools Eliminating Halloween?

[Dorian Gray]

50. That's a part of life

Many parents at my daughter's schools are health conscious and are concerned about snacks. The kids each have a snack day that they are responsible for. We bring in healthy snacks (fruit and some whole wheat bread or cheese and multigrain crackers...)

But on birthdays, kids tend to bring in a special treat. Cupcakes or cookies.

It's life.

If you oppose sweets for your kid, talk to your kid. My daughter won't touch candy because she doesn't like it. (I'm not opposed to it. She just hates candy. And she's 4.) I've had talks to her about soda and that it's unhealthy. (Not seltzer. Just coke and ginger ale.) She's allowed ginger ale if she needs to take medicine (it's our treat.) But at four, she actually understands that cola is bad for her and doesn't want any part of it.

But if she were to have candy or something at school as a special treat, eh! it's life.

(Now allergies are a different matter. And there is a child in her classroom with severe nut allergies. I make sure anything i provide for the class was made in a nutfree facility, and I'm happy to do so.)