Gum

Boo and Skibo have discovered gum. Well, they have discovered the existence of gum: chewing gum, bubble gum, everything except spruce gum, it seems.
Their friends all seem to be allowed to have gum. And LOML and I, being mean, cold-hearted miserable parents, are unwilling to let them follow suit.

I know that at some point we're going to give in and they'll become regular gum-chewing, bubble-popping children. But we'd rather it happen on our own timetable, not on that of other parents who choose to give in rather more easily and earlier than we do.

Yours, girding for battle,
N.