Anonymous wrote:Cones are a great childhood experience. Don’t take them away because they’re messy! Just allow them at times and places where a mess isn’t a huge problem.

It’s the ice cream melting quickly and kids eating slowly combination and the kids getting upset it is melting so quickly or the cream falling out of the cone and the child asking that a new ice cream cone be bought. Saying no results in crying, saying yes results in siblings saying it’s unfair child who dropped ice cream gets more ice cream than them. BTDT with close in age siblings under 7 and it’s not worth it.

Absolutely. I personally wouldn't allow my daughter to eat ice cream period but to each their own.

Im admittedly type a but this doesn’t bother me at all. Get some baby wipes and oxy-clean, there are bigger hills to die on.

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Anonymous wrote:Cones are a great childhood experience. Don’t take them away because they’re messy! Just allow them at times and places where a mess isn’t a huge problem.

Agree! Don't humiliate your kids when they go out to ice cream with a friend and don't know how to eat it out of a cone. Life skill! Loosen up and treat yourself to a waffle cone!

This is such a none thing.

Anonymous wrote:Ice cream season is upon us, and so is cracked cones, drippy, dropped ice cream.
Yes, I know about getting a cup AND a cone on top but not everywhere will do that and it still causes fusses.

My kids are 6,4, and 2 and they can only have cones if the person buying them ice cream wants to deal with everything you mentioned above. My husband and I do not want to deal with that so they don’t get cones when my husband and I are buying or present. If they are alone with grandparents then I let their grandparents decide how they want to handle.

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Anonymous wrote:Cones are a great childhood experience. Don’t take them away because they’re messy! Just allow them at times and places where a mess isn’t a huge problem.

Agree! Don't humiliate your kids when they go out to ice cream with a friend and don't know how to eat it out of a cone. Life skill! Loosen up and treat yourself to a waffle cone!

I’m not afraid of the mess, I’m afraid of the dropped ice cream. And some kids have sensory issues with having ice cream drip everywhere.

Anonymous wrote:Cones are a great childhood experience. Don’t take them away because they’re messy! Just allow them at times and places where a mess isn’t a huge problem.

Agree! Don't humiliate your kids when they go out to ice cream with a friend and don't know how to eat it out of a cone. Life skill! Loosen up and treat yourself to a waffle cone!

Anonymous wrote:I do not even think my kids think a cone is an option. We always ordered cups for them and they continued to do it as they ordered on their own.

My youngest has special needs that would make him disastrous with a cone. Cokes have never been an option for him.

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Anonymous wrote:How about cones only in certain places (like, not the car)?
Banning cones altogether is too harsh!

DP

Cones are gross. I never get one and ask my kids not to either. Sticky and melt all over the place. We're a cups only family. We also eat like birds and cones are way too filling.

How old are your kids? I guarantee upon becoming teens they will not eat like birds! Unless it’s birds of prey.

Anonymous wrote:The ultimate is sugar cone but you put jimmies in the tip so that ice cream doesn't leak out. How can ice cream shop workers not know to do this.

Ew, no. Yuck.

Anonymous wrote:OP here.

Wow. This escalated quickly. I am not afraid of mess…my kids LIVE outside and are constantly messy. We live on a farm…sticky fingers are nothing.

This is about the cost…$6/scoop is a lot and it’s not ok to have it go to total waste on the ground or down their arms.

So we usually have boxes of Costco popsicles and ice cream at home…we rarely go out for ice cream due to cost.

Make your own ice cream!!!

I didn't read the replies, but just in case no one suggested it yet--- order the cone, ask for an empty cup, and then turn the whole thing top down into the cup. You get the best of both worlds.

Ice cream cones are for outdoors only.

OP here.

Wow. This escalated quickly. I am not afraid of mess…my kids LIVE outside and are constantly messy. We live on a farm…sticky fingers are nothing.

This is about the cost…$6/scoop is a lot and it’s not ok to have it go to total waste on the ground or down their arms.

So we usually have boxes of Costco popsicles and ice cream at home…we rarely go out for ice cream due to cost.

Imagine being OP