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[pedanticwench]

At what age did you let your kids have candy? How young is too young?

[eddy]

I am not sure of an age.

Like Leo has had ice cream, cake, muffins, cookies etc. Just bites of what we are eating. But no candy and he is 17 months. He couldn't eat it even if I gave him some due to lack of teeth.

So I guess somewhere in the 2-3 range?

[cleo29]

I think closer to three.

I know when we took C to Disney World, she was nearly 2 1/2, we did not let her have any of the lollipops, etc they sell. We did let her have ice cream or other dessert items.

[iamgrace]

Henry is 2.5 and he's had chocolate , but that's it. No other candy. He's a total addict, too. Ugh.

[luckyval]

We started with the occasional mini marshmallow around 2 yo, gummy candies and such that time too.

He had his first piece of gum yesterday (at 3 yo)

[daisybuchannan]

So, am I going to look like a weirdo if I take my 13 month old trick or treating on my block?

I think it would be fun for him to grab something out of the bowl, and he's really social and would love it. I'm not going to stuff him full of candy. Maybe I'll let him taste chocolate?

[thatgirl2478]

Grandma let her have some the summer she was 1.5... A sucker from a parade.

[daisybuchannan]

Oct 28, 2013 10:55:33 GMT -5 jillianashley6 said:

Oct 28, 2013 10:54:10 GMT -5 daisybuchannan said:

So, am I going to look like a weirdo if I take my 13 month old trick or treating on my block?

I think it would be fun for him to grab something out of the bowl, and he's really social and would love it. I'm not going to stuff him full of candy. Maybe I'll let him taste chocolate?

M and I walked around the neighborhood last year- most people there sat at the edge of the driveway and handed out candy....she didn't collect any, but she walked around and showed off her costume and said hi to people. She had a ball! So, nah, not a weirdo.

Ok, maybe someone will offer me a reeces pumpkin. That would be cool.

[hopecounts]

Around 20 months MIL had M&Ms out and she grabbed a few and has been an addict ever since
Before that she'd have bites of dessert on the occasions we had it if she was interested so she'd had cake/ice cream/etc

ETA: she's 3 and this is the first years he'll actually get to keep her candy, before Dh and I ate 90% of it so take that for what its worth.

[eddy]

Oct 28, 2013 10:54:10 GMT -5 daisybuchannan said:

So, am I going to look like a weirdo if I take my 13 month old trick or treating on my block?

I think it would be fun for him to grab something out of the bowl, and he's really social and would love it. I'm not going to stuff him full of candy. Maybe I'll let him taste chocolate?

Go
Everyone loves a baby in a costume

[textbookcase]

Meh, I'm sure I was more uptight about it with Cambria than I am with Bonnie. She doesn't eat much candy, but she's had the occasional piece of candy. She's 22 months.

[daisyheadmaizie]

Hell if I can remember. Probably 2ish, but she might have had a bite of something I was eating earlier. DS is 13 months and hasn't had candy that I can remember,but I'm pretty sure my brain looks like Swiss cheese so who knows.

[mandymay]

Oct 28, 2013 10:54:10 GMT -5 daisybuchannan said:

So, am I going to look like a weirdo if I take my 13 month old trick or treating on my block?

I think it would be fun for him to grab something out of the bowl, and he's really social and would love it. I'm not going to stuff him full of candy. Maybe I'll let him taste chocolate?

When my daughter was 1 we went Trick or Treating with some friends and she walked up to a couple of houses. It was fun for her. Last year (when she was 2) was even more fun and this year she's so excited!
My daughter had a taste of her first sucker at 2.5 as a reward for pooping on the toilet for the first time. She hadn't had any hard candy before then, but she had had chocolate.

[Deleted]

DS got a lollipop at 21 months old. He gets one occasionally & is so happy. He's never had a chocolate candy, but that's mostly bc of his nut allergy.

[Deleted]

My sister-in-law was really angry at me for giving me my nephew his first lollipop ever.

He was 3.

I DIDN'T KNOW HE'D NEVER HAD A LOLLIPOP BEFORE.

[cleo29]

Oct 28, 2013 11:30:58 GMT -5 @misoangry said:

My sister-in-law was really angry at me for giving me my nephew his first lollipop ever.

He was 3.

I DIDN'T KNOW HE'D NEVER HAD A LOLLIPOP BEFORE.

Every day C asks to go by the "green" bank for a lollipop.  Clearly, she has priorities.

[Deleted]

I know we took him Trick or treating when he was 22 months, and I remember him eating candy, so at some point before then.

[TrudyCampbell]

I gave my 17m old a mini twix yesterday.

[jayded]

J was about 2.5 when he had chocolate. He's 3 now and had his first "taste" of a sucker last weekend.

[papie]

#1: age 2?  She had ice cream and cake starting at 1.  McDs after closer to 3.  

#2: a few months old? DD1 gave her some of those red berry gummies and was all "mommy she loves it".  I was like this

[papie]

Oct 28, 2013 11:36:17 GMT -5 cleo29 said:

Oct 28, 2013 11:30:58 GMT -5 @misoangry said:

My sister-in-law was really angry at me for giving me my nephew his first lollipop ever.

He was 3.

I DIDN'T KNOW HE'D NEVER HAD A LOLLIPOP BEFORE.

Every day C asks to go by the "green" bank for a lollipop.  Clearly, she has priorities.

Us it is the drycleaner, lol.  "Mommy are you sure your clothes don't need to be cleaned? We got go now!"

[8675309]

I JUST gave DS (20months) his first peice of candy yesterday. It was a gummy worm from the candy table from our party. I had given his sister a couple and he got pissed off so I thought ahhh fuck it.

My DD (3 1/2) had her first piece of candy at 21 months at Halloween. She was TOTing and I figured she should get SOMETHING for all that walking.

[sharknado]

H gave DS a Dum Dum on Saturday, he is 8 1/2 months

[Deleted]

DS (17 months) gets the odd bit of cookie or cake if we're at something, but I don't really let him have candy. I had to ask daycare to not let him etiher, because sometimes the older kids do at special occasions (birthdays, etc) and I was worried they would let DS have some. I would rather avoid it as long as possible. He also has bad teeth so we have to be extra mindful.

[hisno1girl]

Last summer when Moonpie was 20 months old, i gave her a blowpop. It kept her quiet for the 2.5 hour car ride.  Of course, she was so sticky that when I got her out of the car she practically stuck to me, but I'll take a sticky baby over a screaming baby any day of the week.

[speckledfrog]

About 1.5. I love to give him candy now and then. I love to see how much he enjoys it.

[Gato]

I think the first time DD1 had candy -- as opposed to birthday cake or ice cream, which was earlier -- was for her second Christmas.  So at 21 months. 

DD2 just gets a little treat once in a while, but she started way earlier.  I don't even know when; it was not a big deal to me.

[MrsStark]

DD has had reese's pb cups and small bits of chocolate bar. No lollipops, hard candies or gum. She's 17 months. For us, it's more of a choking hazard thing.