It's interesting. As I think about all of the kids that will gorge themselves on candy today, I'm grateful that my daughter seems to have had a good grasp on moderation for most of her life. If I hadn't thrown it away, we'd still have Halloween candy lying around the house.
She'll get a lot of candy today during her Easter Egg hunt, but won't eat but a small fraction of it.
- COMPLICATED MR. NOODLE
I can't help but feel that part of this is the fact that I don't keep her from these kinds of things on a regular basis. We usually have candy around the house, but we rarely eat more than a small serving of it. She has her own tablet, but she spends so little time glued to it that, more often than not, she doesn't even know where it is. I can't help but feel that the parents that are constantly trying to keep their kids away from the "evils" of society are actually imbuing in their children a sense that they have to overdo it whenever they have the opportunity.
- COMPLICATED MR. NOODLE