From teaching healthy eating habits to letting children ‘go wild’, here are trick-or-treat tactics to keep in mind
‘At the end of the night, our son, now six, gets to keep a small portion and the rest is left out for the Switch Witch who exchanges it for a toy,’ one parent says.‘At the end of the night, our son, now six, gets to keep a small portion and the rest is left out for the Switch Witch who exchanges it for a toy,’ one parent says.night. You realise your children have a big enough haul of Halloween treats to transform them into sugar-hyped monsters for the foreseeable future.
Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup “At the end of the night, our son, now six, gets to keep a small portion and the rest is left out for the Switch Witch who exchanges it for a toy,” one parent says. Brandner also advises discussing boundaries with children about how much they can eat, and storing the lollies out of view.Ellyn Satter’s “division of responsibility” to teach healthy eating habits. Dodd previously told Guardian Australia this could be practised by offering a child a choice between a fruit salad for dessert or Halloween lollies with a glass of milk. It is then the child’s role to choose to eat, and how much, from what you make available.
“She got so distracted by all the different colours and options she kind of forgot,” Lamb says. “I thought she’d just eat all the treats once she found it and nothing else, but she didn’t!”
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