They can do all they can. Candy is like the Ring in Lord of the Rings. It WANTS to be found.
True story:
My wife did not want our first baby to be exposed to candy very early, lest she develop a sweet tooth. I obliged, and never brought any into the house.
Then, I went to pick up the mail at my private mailbox in my wife’s car (’74 Dodge Dart with a front bench seat), as mine was in the shop. I was sent a cheap net bag of chocolate coins in gold foil, courtesy of the phone company we switched to. I put the mail in the passenger seat. Little did I know that the netted sack had an opening. Chocolate coins slipped out the opening and into the bench seat.
The next day, my wife is on the road with her car. The baby is with her. She needs her diaper changed. She places the baby on the passenger seat, and while she changes the diaper, the baby exclaimed “Num-num-NUMM!”
The baby’s face had been towards the part where the candy slipped between the seat. She was easily able to slip her small arm between the upper seat back and lower seat, and had grabbed one of the coins, chewing through the foil in her 9 month old mouth, all while her mother was concentrating on the business end.
Children will get candy. No point in fighting it.
I was like your wife when it came to our first child. i refused to let her even have a piece of cake or a lick of ice cream. then she died. without ever having had a little sucker!
I did not make that mistake again.