halloween !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

shazzahare
shazzahare Posts: 52 Member
edited October 2024 in Chit-Chat
Doctors go on about children growing up on a poor diet and then at halloween parents send out their children to collect loads of candy. And I can not understand why parents allow children to knock on strangers doors.

We tell our kids not to talk to strangers or accept sweets off strangers and then allow them out to trick or treat. Wrong Wrong wrong.
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  • Pollywog39
    Pollywog39 Posts: 1,730 Member
    it's one day of the year.

    lighten up..........................
  • TheRoadDog
    TheRoadDog Posts: 11,786 Member
    I loved taking my girls out for Halloween. Now that they are all out of the house, I love handing out candy to all the ghosts and goblins that come to my door.

    Who dropped a turd in your Halloween sack?
  • shazzahare
    shazzahare Posts: 52 Member
    young children walking around without adult supervision at night in the dark at wrong. We had one guy who dressed up as a scary clown looking in peoples windows scaring people, this is not right. Because it was around halloween poeple thought it was trick or treat, turned out he has a knife and was after someone for a personal reason. I know this is huge in America but kids walking the streets accepting sweets off strangers is wrong. Organised events and parties are fine but we have had lots of groups of children around here not supervised.
  • 2bFitNTrim
    2bFitNTrim Posts: 1,209 Member
    Halloween comes once per year & it's fun. I enjoyed helping my son dress up & going door to door when he was little. And I am looking forward to seeing the wee ones come to mine now that he is grown.

    Enjoy life, it's short! :flowerforyou:
  • A_New_Horizon
    A_New_Horizon Posts: 1,555 Member
    My babies don't trick or treat alone - I am with them every step of the way (walking from house to house). I do find it annoying when parents allow their children to go alone (with no adult supervision), but I am with my babies. It is fun and something we do together. There is nothing wrong with candy (in moderation) - my kids are allowed 1 piece of candy a day.
  • pnieuw
    pnieuw Posts: 473 Member
    Doctors go on about children growing up on a poor diet and then at halloween parents send out their children to collect loads of candy. And I can not understand why parents allow children to knock on strangers doors.

    We tell our kids not to talk to strangers or accept sweets off strangers and then allow them out to trick or treat. Wrong Wrong wrong.

    First, a little candy in moderation isn't going to ruin a child's diet. We limit the treats to a couple a day until they are gone.

    Second, I teach my kids to not go into stranger's cars and houses, but I haven't distilled a complete distrust of people in them. As for accepting sweets, it's once a year, and we as parents, sort and review all the candy first.

    Did you not ever trick or treat as a kid?
  • TerraGirl17
    TerraGirl17 Posts: 275 Member
    I loved taking my girls out for Halloween. Now that they are all out of the house, I love handing out candy to all the ghosts and goblins that come to my door.

    Who dropped a turd in your Halloween sack?

    ^^^^^
    LOVE this response!! It's a day for KIDS let them have fun and enjoy it!
  • Shweedog
    Shweedog Posts: 883 Member
    This is why as a parent your are to monitor the candy intake and not just allow them to eat it all in one sitting. Also, I do not send my children to strangers doors alone. I am right there with them. I don't know of any parent who sends their small children out trick or treating without an adult.
  • lloydrt
    lloydrt Posts: 1,121 Member
    I loved being terrorized as a child.............it helped mold the individual I became..............

    Psycho is my favorite film, the shower scene is a cult classic..........................Happy Halloween , Lloyd
  • kb455
    kb455 Posts: 679 Member
    I love Halloween!!! I love taking my kids trick-or-treating and they NEVER have and NEVER will go without me and/or their dad. Before I had kids, I loved handing out candy to the neighborhood kids.
  • Triquetra
    Triquetra Posts: 270 Member
    I still take my kids round personally house to house and they are 8 & 12. I have a different take on the candy though, my dentist said let them eat it as fast as they can, because one week with sugary teeth is better than spreading it out over a month or two with a couple treats a day....and the plus side after one sitting of "eat all you want" they are usually feeling sick and the rest goes to the grandparents or work's candy bin (notice I didn't say to me!!!!)
  • rbryntes
    rbryntes Posts: 710 Member
    We had one guy who dressed up as a scary clown looking in peoples windows scaring people, this is not right. Because it was around halloween poeple thought it was trick or treat, turned out he has a knife and was after someone for a personal reason.

    http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/north-east-news/evening-chronicle-news/2011/10/26/police-hit-out-at-hoax-clown-stab-attack-rumours-72703-29658223/
    But Northumbria Police confirmed they had received no reports of any such incidents, and the whole thing appears to be an elaborate rumour.

    A police spokesman said it is believed the false attack stories were generated nationally as a prank in the run up to Halloween on Monday.
  • Qarol
    Qarol Posts: 6,159 Member
    care to add another exclamation point?
  • Triquetra
    Triquetra Posts: 270 Member
    !
  • maidentl
    maidentl Posts: 3,203 Member
    Maybe you just think they're unsupervised. I don't go up to every door with my kids but I am out on the sidewalk. If you don't enjoy Halloween, that's your loss. But why do you think everyone else should fall into group-think with you? Just keep your porch light off and don't answer the door.
  • killagb
    killagb Posts: 3,280 Member
    Paranoia is not becoming.
  • ellisalockwood
    ellisalockwood Posts: 31 Member
    I don't give my kids candy, and I don't take them trick or treating because they're are 5 of them and 1 of me and I'm afraid to lose one of them in the dark to one of the many registered sex offenders in my town ( we already had a close call with a sex offender and my daughter, so I have cause). But, I love halloween, it's my favorite holiday, we have the front yard all decked out with dead things and graves and rats and spiders. Heck, my decorations made the front page of the paper, and me and the kids sit outside and pass out candy and scare the other kids and it's great fun and the kids love it. They get they're own halloween party on the weekend of course with snacks and scary movies.

    But the point is, I don't give my kids candy and I don't go trick or treating, but I still give out candy and decorate because I will raise my kids my why and you can raise your kids your way. If you don't like halloween or the traditions that go along with it, nobody is forcing you to participate. To each his own.
  • shazzahare
    shazzahare Posts: 52 Member
    I am fully entitled to my opinion and did not ask anybody to fall in with my way of thinking. Sorry if I upset anybody all I did was care about childrens teeth and safety, silly me.
  • rbryntes
    rbryntes Posts: 710 Member
    But it isn't always a good idea to prepetuate hoaxes as reality.
  • killagb
    killagb Posts: 3,280 Member
    I am fully entitled to my opinion and did not ask anybody to fall in with my way of thinking. Sorry if I upset anybody all I did was care about childrens teeth and safety, silly me.
    No, more like 'irrational fear' you.
  • juscallmeb
    juscallmeb Posts: 369 Member
    care to add another exclamation point?

    lol !!!
    yes :)!!
  • XxXskinnyMiniXxX
    XxXskinnyMiniXxX Posts: 325 Member
    Most parents are with their kids on halloween, but just because the doctor says kids eat unhealthy doesn't mean they can't have candy on one day. It's not like some kid is going to eat a candy bar and gain 100lbs and have rotten teeth. :grumble:
  • juscallmeb
    juscallmeb Posts: 369 Member
    everything in moderation. :)
  • stefchica
    stefchica Posts: 257 Member
    i agree with the w/o adult supervision but you just HAVE TO TELL YOUR KIDS the rules of getting candies and junk.

    1. everything has to be in packaging
    2. do not eat any sweets not in a closed package
    3. dont accept home made treats
    4. watch what they grab

    just have to be smart about it. its sad that we cant go out and frolic like we used to, even being adults, but you just have to be smart about it and educate and teach your kids young, that way, it always carrys with them.
  • XxXskinnyMiniXxX
    XxXskinnyMiniXxX Posts: 325 Member
    i agree with the w/o adult supervision but you just HAVE TO TELL YOUR KIDS the rules of getting candies and junk.

    1. everything has to be in packaging
    2. do not eat any sweets not in a closed package
    3. dont accept home made treats
    4. watch what they grab

    just have to be smart about it. its sad that we cant go out and frolic like we used to, even being adults, but you just have to be smart about it and educate and teach your kids young, that way, it always carrys with them.
    I agree with you, I remember my parents would always look over my candy when I was little to make sure none was opened or looked odd.
  • thankyou4thevenom
    thankyou4thevenom Posts: 1,581 Member
    You do realise 'Stranger Danger' is rubbish. Children are mostly likely to be abducted, abused or murdered by someone they know.

    Once a year, knocking on a door at Halloween in your local community is not going to do any harm.
  • ElizabethRoad
    ElizabethRoad Posts: 5,138 Member
    I am fully entitled to my opinion and did not ask anybody to fall in with my way of thinking. Sorry if I upset anybody all I did was care about childrens teeth and safety, silly me.
    Everyone else is also fully entitled to their opinions. You are the one who brought it up. Did you think no one would disagree with you?
  • XxXskinnyMiniXxX
    XxXskinnyMiniXxX Posts: 325 Member
    I am fully entitled to my opinion and did not ask anybody to fall in with my way of thinking. Sorry if I upset anybody all I did was care about childrens teeth and safety, silly me.
    Everyone else is also fully entitled to their opinions. You are the one who brought it up. Did you think no one would disagree with you?

    I certainly hope she didn't think that.
  • thankyou4thevenom
    thankyou4thevenom Posts: 1,581 Member
    i agree with the w/o adult supervision but you just HAVE TO TELL YOUR KIDS the rules of getting candies and junk.

    1. everything has to be in packaging
    2. do not eat any sweets not in a closed package
    3. dont accept home made treats
    4. watch what they grab

    just have to be smart about it. its sad that we cant go out and frolic like we used to, even being adults, but you just have to be smart about it and educate and teach your kids young, that way, it always carrys with them.

    Also this.
  • XxXskinnyMiniXxX
    XxXskinnyMiniXxX Posts: 325 Member
    You do realise 'Stranger Danger' is rubbish. Children are mostly likely to be abducted, abused or murdered by someone they know.

    Once a year, knocking on a door at Halloween in your local community is not going to do any harm.
    idk I once knocked on a door in my neighborhood trick or treating when i was a kid and almost got a splinter, so it did do harm :laugh: :laugh:
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