Do you still take your kids trick or treating? Why or why not?

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   milleramanda53posted 11 years ago

   Do you still take your kids trick or treating? Why or why not?

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   Missylove21posted 11 years ago

   Yes, of course.  First off, let me say that we live in a middle America suburban town.  I feel like as soon as we become paranoid parents, our children suffer.  I am glad that my children will have the same type of memories of Halloween that I did as a child.

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   abbykorinneleeposted 11 years ago

   Yes, Up until last year I lived on military bases and it was safe and they always had some halloween fest going on for the kids too.  In Germany it was especially fun because of how the officer housing was where we all would go so families didn't have to split up so someone could give out candy.  Since I moved to a small town in Wisconsin where my father is an upstanding figure in the town and everyone knows one another it was easy to feel comfortable and safe taking my children out.  Especially my Autistic one.  We saw teacher's and the tellers at the bank giving the kids candy and it made it feel more like a community than I ever felt in the military.

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   KristenGraceposted 11 years ago

   I'm not a parent but I am a teacher, and all of my students are planning on trick or treating this year.  I feel like it is a fun tradition, and even if times are different, it's a tradition that should carry on for families.  Kids will always be just that - kids.  Halloween trick or treating is something to look forward to (:

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   Lisa HWposted 11 years ago

   My kids are grown and out of the house now, so they're on the giving end of Trick or Treat now; but Trick or Treat in my area (my town and the surrounding towns) has remained a really nice tradition for kids since my kids were little (and before).  With a few rotten things that made the news (and made Trick or Treating more of a safety concern than it had previously been), steps have been taken to make the event safer for kids.  For example, hours have been set up two two hours, and people generally know to only bring their kids to the homes of neighbors they know (or at least neighbors who have been well known in the area by others for a long time).   When I was a kid my older sister (at around 12/13) and her girlfriends would go all over the small city in which we lived,and then hit some neighborhoods in the next city over.  These days (at least where I live), it's standard to see a parent or two (even a group) standing in the street (or in a car nearby) as a bunch of, say, 13-year-olds show up all together. 
   
   Parents of younger kids tend to go out in small groups, with the whole group of all their kids getting to Trick or Treat together.  Sometimes a lone kid, or a couple of kids, will show up with just one parent.  Either way, the parents are very present and very much a part of being there, watching their kids, and knowing which houses they go to.  I try to make my walk and front door seem very welcoming and "happy" for the kids, and I try to make my Trick or Treat bags different enough that parents may remember who gave their child the treats in the bags (I assume they trust me after all these years).  I just figure that someone who gives kids something bad  isn't going to want to make sure parents will remember where the thing came from.  (Besides, I live in a close, suburban, neighborhood where people pretty much know who else are also parents, even if their kids are grown or else too little to go Trick or Treating.)
   
   Anyway, I think it's a nice thing for the kids, as long as everyone kind of works together as a neighborhood/community to keep Trick or Treating a safe thing.  I don't think kids have to do what they used to do when my sister was going out.  They can have a nice time without roaming through neighborhoods where nobody knows who lives where.  (I get a lot of Trick or Treaters who are the city-dwelling relatives of my neighbors.  I'm happy they have our neighborhood, where they can know who is who.    )

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   CJ Sledgehammerposted 11 years ago

   I am proud to say that I NEVER took my children trick or treating and we do not celebrate Christ Mass either.  :0)

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