What I Wish I'd Known about Kids, Sugar, and Halloween Candy

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I’ve been at a food blogging conference this week and I’ve had a few people ask me what will happen to my brand once I no longer have toddlers. Well, I already no longer have toddlers and I have no intention of going anywhere!

I will share more about that another day, but with almost every holiday or food situation, I naturally think about how things went in past years when my kids were younger. Or simply, how much harder would this be with a toddler? Because I love sharing tips with the audience right in the thick of toddlerhood right now.

So with Halloween—and Halloween candy—coming towards most of us, I have three things I wish I’d known about handling candy when I was new to motherhood. These are the issues that came up for me each year, especially with my first toddler. The challenges with handling the mountain of candy that were tricky to figure out in the moment…that in retrospect, I could have found a little more ease with.

Note: My goal for this community is that it’s a safe place to talk to parents with similar concerns, so please feel free to use the comment section as a place to ask questions, talk to each other, and air out your worries. I firmly believe, because I know this to be true in my own life, that the more we can lean on each other, the easier feeding our kids can be.

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