Taking Candy from a Baby

Why Halloween is all about our guy — and the Tootsie Rolls

Halloween is an interesting time of year. It’s the gateway into a season full of fun holidays - Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year’s Eve - that we all associate with childhood. Yet none of these occasions are really for babies.

I’d be locked up if I tried to give an 8-month-old anything other than pureed turkey and very, very mashed potatoes for Thanksgiving dinner. At Christmas time, a baby generally doesn’t care if you put a wrapped gift or a broken toaster in front of her, and New Year’s is, well, pretty much a nonevent when you have an infant.

Read the Babytalk Magazine article

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