Thank you to Kara Fleck of Simple Kids for giving us this great idea! She posted at the Simple Organic web site about her kids' visits from the Sugar Plum Fairy.
Our children are young still, so it's a great time to start. Tonight, our son (the trick or treater) took out several pieces of candy he wants to keep and left the rest on his dresser for the Sugar Plum Fairy. We did need to give him a little preview of what toy he might get (apparently, mommy had a chat with Sugar Plum Fairy awhile ago). But, after that it was smooth sailing.
I don't mind my kids having some treats. But, I would have to regulate the treats from now to February given of the amount of candy received. This haul of sugary sweets is in addition to the coming festivities. We decided it was a good idea to get the stuff out of the house now, while we could. I'm sure there's more to come and we do often have sweets of various, more healthy kinds around. We'd like for our kids to learn to deal with moderation and feel like they are making choices. So, my son had a choice about the toy and "visit". He may choose otherwise another year. That will be fine too. We'll just have to set some limits about where to go from there.
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