Do you remove sweets and chocolate from party bags?

[nappyaddict]

If so would you prefer you kids didn't have those things at the party to eat as well or is it just in the party bags that you mind?

No - a few sweets isn't going to kill DS. I don't let him have some hard boiled sweets as i worry he'll choke though.

What are you parents who don't let your DCS have any crap going to do when they are older enough to go to the shops on their own and buy huge amounts of crap because they have never been allowed it before?

I might remove sugar free ones. I'd much rather my children had sugar than aspartame.

Otherwise, no of course not.

No I don't. Isn't part of the fun of parties coming home feeling slightly sick?

I don't let DS (2) have hard sweets or chews etc yet, but I am ok with him having chocolate, cake, fudge etc. I think that's because it doesn't get all stuck in teeth like boiled sweets and as someone whose mum looked after my teeth by banning these things I can see the benefit. I don't think that's unreasonable to limit them at hhis age and he doesn't actually notice yet! When he's older and aware of what is in his party bag then I will let him probably then.

My mum is one of those annoying people who likes to stuff kids with crap cake and sweets and chocolate at parties. I remember being a bit when she hosted my ds's 2nd birthday party and invited my friend with her 2 children (5 and 7) and they were clearly off their faces on chocolate .

The only time I ever used to vet their party bags was when they were really little and got inappropriate stuff (so hard boiled sweets/chewy stuff when they were 18mths - usually DS2 or DD when we ended up at a party that DS1 was actually invited to)

Now they just get gently encouraged to give one to me

Sugarfree sweets are banned in this house. They usually contain Sorbitol as a sweetener which can have a laxative effect on some people ie me. It makes me quite ill clutches belly We eat actual sugar here

I used to just remove and eat the stuff myself when DS was younger; he wasn't interested in sweets/chocolate and I saw no need to try and persuade him otherwise.
Now he is 5 I would probably still remove wrapped boiled sweets or gobstoppers on the grounds of choking, but those don't seem to show up very often.

My 2 have yet to go to a party where the sweeties in the party bag don't consist of a box of organic raisins and a couple of jelly babies if they're lucky. Or a freddo frog bar. Pretty inoffensive stuff.

Are there really people who would put sugar free sweets in a children's party bag?

yes but only because dd thinks she likes haribo etc but actually doesn't, so spits them out half-sucked and either hands them to me or DH or leaves them on the floor thus creating a revolting mess.

chocolate buttons etc are fine

Never. Tis madness to even think about doing it.

No.

But we've never had a party bag with enough sweets in to enable having a few bits straight away and then bits and pieces over the next few days/weeks -- most we've ever had is a very small bag of sweets and a lollipop.

I let him eat the sweets all at once if he wants (he generally does!!), there aren't ususally very many of them anyway. I take the cake and say to ds that it need t be kept safely then I eat it later -

Ds always forgets about the cake anyway ikes the idea of cake more than the reality. He likes the reality of sweets though !

I do occasinally comment that if he eats too many sweets he might feel sick. This has never stopped ds yet I'm afraid!

At the party itself, I sometimes half-hertedly wave a carrot or cucumber stick at him (if there are any) but other than that let him eat what he wants.

I let both DS (5) and DD (4) eat as many sweets as they like as soon after the party as they want to.

After her own party, DD and I sat happily on the sofa watching a DVD while she went through her party bag. It was very nice.

I think I am not really a signed up member of the "if your children eat a lot of sweets at once they will spontaneously combust" club

I have never even heard of sugar-free sweets - what on earth is the point?
I don't like those lollipops particularly, for choking reasons, but sweets/chocs are fine by me. But then dd has prob only been to about 5 parties in her entire life!
I am sure I have read that a sugar rush is a myth anyway, or am I imagining that?