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    Do you let children (mindees/own children) have lollipops?

    I cannot stand lollipops absolutely hate them. Whenever my own children aged 3 and 6 get a lollipop from the hairdressers they know they are not allowed them until we get home. The eldest has to sit and it not allowed to move until it is all gone and for my youngest I smash it and let him eat it like that.

    DH thinks I am OTT and perhaps I am. My SIL was in the supermarket one day in the queue when her son who was 7 at the time started to smack her and waving his arms about. He was not making a single sound and SIL had no idea what he was doing, then she saw his lips going blue and saw the very tip of the stick from a lollipop he had down the back of this throat, he was choking. She just about managed to get her fingers in and get it out. She was so shaken up... yet DH still maintains I am OTT.

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    My own son is allowed lollypops, he's 6 and knows how to behave when given one. He doesn't get a huge amount though he knows he'll get one when we're on a plane to help with his ears!

    I'd never give someone else's child a lollypop even if parents said it was okay, I'd rather not take that risk when they were in my care

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    I Hate them!

    Had a mindee (3 years) who had them for breakfast mind you!!

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    I dont buy them for my children but if they are given one they can have it when we get home.

    Can remember being addicted to drumsticks
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    Quote Originally Posted by FussyElmo View Post
    I dont buy them for my children but if they are given one they can have it when we get home.

    Can remember being addicted to drumsticks
    Ah not you see drumsticks are a different story lol... Ummm yummy! lol

    I mean the hard boiled ones like the chupa chups (although I like them too) I think we should have a legal age limit on lollipops... aged 16 and over

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    Hate them!

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    I buy them but only up the table or to take home
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    FussyElmo, just to let you know you signature made me laugh so much I had to post it on FB... That little phrase has made my day... Mental images...

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    Quote Originally Posted by EmmaReed84 View Post
    Do you let children (mindees/own children) have lollipops?

    I cannot stand lollipops absolutely hate them. Whenever my own children aged 3 and 6 get a lollipop from the hairdressers they know they are not allowed them until we get home. The eldest has to sit and it not allowed to move until it is all gone and for my youngest I smash it and let him eat it like that.

    DH thinks I am OTT and perhaps I am. My SIL was in the supermarket one day in the queue when her son who was 7 at the time started to smack her and waving his arms about. He was not making a single sound and SIL had no idea what he was doing, then she saw his lips going blue and saw the very tip of the stick from a lollipop he had down the back of this throat, he was choking. She just about managed to get her fingers in and get it out. She was so shaken up... yet DH still maintains I am OTT.
    I'm exactly like you - I cannot abide them! They're probably the only sweet (other than chewing gum) that I don't let my DS (he's 5) have. I'm quite lucky though, as if he DOES get one from someone (ie hairdresser) and she gives it to him directly, he'll only have a couple of sucks and doesn't want it anymore anyway.

    I don't think you're being OTT at all hun

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    I don't hate them but wouldn't let any child have one unless they were sitting down, can't stand seeing children running round with lolly sticks sticking out of their mouths! So dangerous!

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    I don't buy any sweets or squash. I'm mean like that but we have lovely smiles

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    Hate them!!! They are just balls of yucky sugar. My 2 have never had them unless a school friends birthday. They may as well grab a spoon and eat from the sugar bowl. Banished from my house

    Still I do remember being partial to sherbet dips so shouldn't be too harsh but do as I say not as I do and all that
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    My own children have them occasionally but iIwould never give a mindee a lollipop. I remember being told years ago that a child choked to death when the lollipop came off the stick and became lodged in the child's throat.

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    Hate them . saw my sons friend choke on one when she was 6 ( son is now 20 ) they were all playing on the grass front outside it had come off the stick and she had swallowed it whole ambulance called and even they couldnt move it almost ended up putting a tube in her neck to help her breath lucky by time they got her to hospital it had moved down.she spent 24hours in hospital though..... banned from my house did have lo that would turn up with one in a morning but i would put it in her bag say she cud have it when she got back home.
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    I don't allow my youngest to have any boiled sweets, or gum, don't even really like him having chewy sweets. He was 5 before I let him eat a haribo thing. He has other kinds of candy though. My eldest are almost 16, so don't really have too much say any more, but even they don't really go in for boiled sweets, they prefer chocolate.

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    I don't let mndees have lollipops except chocolate ones and ice lollies (occasionally) and then they have to sit down whilst eating them, or take them home!! I also don't let them have hard sweets (not that they have many sweets) and they definately aren't allowed Drumsticks - they are strictly for me and June - far too good for children

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    Quote Originally Posted by CAROLYN View Post
    I don't let mndees have lollipops except chocolate ones and ice lollies (occasionally) and then they have to sit down whilst eating them, or take them home!! I also don't let them have hard sweets (not that they have many sweets) and they definately aren't allowed Drumsticks - they are strictly for me and June - far too good for children
    Recently watched Matilda with the kiddies and the bit where the Trunchball eats the chocolate and says "Much to good for children"

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    I dont like them , they are very sticky and a nightmare when they get stuck in long hair. Once my dd choked on a lollypop when she was about 4. Scared me to death.
    So no i don't let them have them here, but then again I don't go buying sweets for mindees very often, if I do it is a fudge or something like that

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    Quote Originally Posted by EmmaReed84 View Post
    FussyElmo, just to let you know you signature made me laugh so much I had to post it on FB... That little phrase has made my day... Mental images...
    When someone tells you nothing is impossible, tell them to go slam a revolving door

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    I wouldn't give lollys, or any other sweets, to mindees (all little). My own DS has been given them them a lot (corner shop, cafes etc) since he was about 1 (he's now almost 4) and we take them to be polite, but the poor chap doesn't know that you can eat them - he's always been told that they go in your pocket/get used as a drumstick (I quietly bin them after a day or so).

    He did see some friend's kids eating lollys the other day and asked what they were having... and I said they had to have medicine!

    Poor kid, when he finds out the truth he's going to hate me!

 

 
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