Do you remember when you used to go with your parents to the candy store and they would let you pick out a few candy cigarettes and a few pieces of rock candy? Well, the tradition of taking your children to the candy store or letting them eat candy at all has really come under fire in the last decade.
With childhood obesity on the rise, it is difficult for parents to make the decisions between having healthy kids or happy kids.
We all know that candy isn't exactly the best for our bodies, but we also know that it really does make our kids happy campers.
So what can we do as parents? We can't take the childhoods of our kids so we have to find a healthy balance between the two.
We've all heard the phrase, "Everything in moderation," and this holds true here as well.
We can't keep our kids away from old fashioned candy all the time or else they may grow to resent us in the future like Johnny Deep did in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
The meaning of Halloween would be completely lost on them and they might grow up into bitter rule-making adults that don't let their kids do anything as well.
Despite the health risks, it is probably a good idea to take your child to the candy store once in a while.
The candy store, of course, can mean anything that might be potentially harmful to them that they also love to do.
This doesn't mean to let them run around with scissors whenever they want, but it does mean to let them have some ice cream and cartoons on Saturday morning once in a while.
They get up way earlier than we do anyway.
They're just going to do it anyway when we're still asleep.
It doesn't mean that you are bad parents if you let your children enjoy the things that they should enjoy when they're young.
Kids are already growing up frighteningly fast these days and they see things at a young age that they really shouldn't.
The age of childhood innocence is slowly disappearing and if you are a parent who is trying to preserve their naïveté just a little longer, then buying them some bulk candy and letting them watch a little television might just keep them in their childhoods a little longer.
With childhood obesity on the rise, it is difficult for parents to make the decisions between having healthy kids or happy kids.
We all know that candy isn't exactly the best for our bodies, but we also know that it really does make our kids happy campers.
So what can we do as parents? We can't take the childhoods of our kids so we have to find a healthy balance between the two.
We've all heard the phrase, "Everything in moderation," and this holds true here as well.
We can't keep our kids away from old fashioned candy all the time or else they may grow to resent us in the future like Johnny Deep did in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
The meaning of Halloween would be completely lost on them and they might grow up into bitter rule-making adults that don't let their kids do anything as well.
Despite the health risks, it is probably a good idea to take your child to the candy store once in a while.
The candy store, of course, can mean anything that might be potentially harmful to them that they also love to do.
This doesn't mean to let them run around with scissors whenever they want, but it does mean to let them have some ice cream and cartoons on Saturday morning once in a while.
They get up way earlier than we do anyway.
They're just going to do it anyway when we're still asleep.
It doesn't mean that you are bad parents if you let your children enjoy the things that they should enjoy when they're young.
Kids are already growing up frighteningly fast these days and they see things at a young age that they really shouldn't.
The age of childhood innocence is slowly disappearing and if you are a parent who is trying to preserve their naïveté just a little longer, then buying them some bulk candy and letting them watch a little television might just keep them in their childhoods a little longer.
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