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

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  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    When I was a kid, my parents or my friends' parents took us trick or treating, and we only went to the homes of neighbors we knew.

    I don't know any parents crappy enough that they'd just shove their kids out the door and let them go wherever. :noway:
  • rbryntes
    rbryntes Posts: 710 Member
    I don't know any parents crappy enough that they'd just shove their kids out the door and let them go wherever. :noway:

    Umm. I guess my parents were "crappy" then.
  • karenjoy
    karenjoy Posts: 1,840 Member
    I think that this might be a cultural difference, where I live in the south of England it is a non event and people don't trick or treat round here and never have, it has become more widely 'celebrated' in recent times due to commercial interests and in the shops there are haloween sweets and costumes to buy and some teenagers apparently go round knocking on doors etc but the local police are discouraging it and it is widely viewed as anti social and threatening by many.My Canadian Husband finds this all very strange, but its just different.
  • maidentl
    maidentl Posts: 3,203 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.

    OK, well, my oldest is 15 and he has maybe 4 cavities? He is a brilliant athlete. My youngest has a mouth full of cavities but my dentist agrees that it's genetic. His dad does too. I trick or treated until college (what?!) and I just recently had my first cavity at the age of 42. I am pretty sure that Halloween does not scar you for life.
  • XxXskinnyMiniXxX
    XxXskinnyMiniXxX Posts: 325 Member
    I don't know any parents crappy enough that they'd just shove their kids out the door and let them go wherever. :noway:

    Umm. I guess my parents were "crappy" then.
    Mine too, back when i was little (which to me was a long time ago) parents weren't so paranoid about every little thing in the world.
  • maidentl
    maidentl Posts: 3,203 Member
    I don't know any parents crappy enough that they'd just shove their kids out the door and let them go wherever. :noway:

    Umm. I guess my parents were "crappy" then.

    We're old. That's what people did back then, LOL.
  • JustEllieK
    JustEllieK Posts: 423 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.

    I like you:)
  • XxXskinnyMiniXxX
    XxXskinnyMiniXxX Posts: 325 Member
    One thing, I've gone trick or treating at least until i was 14. I've never ever had a cavity and i ate all of my candy every year. So thats proof that halloween candy every year for like 12 years isn't going to give you a ton of cavity's
  • rbryntes
    rbryntes Posts: 710 Member
    I don't know any parents crappy enough that they'd just shove their kids out the door and let them go wherever. :noway:

    Umm. I guess my parents were "crappy" then.

    We're old. That's what people did back then, LOL.

    Ahh. That's it, then?
  • Tangerine302
    Tangerine302 Posts: 1,509 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.

    Well, do you feel they should pull every candy and sugar containing items from the shelves at the stores too? Stop making Christmas cookies/candy because children's teeth are at stake? Bann birthday cakes and chocolate? Just because they go trick or treating doesn't mean they eat all the candy that night. In fact most families share. It's a once a year holiday that has been a tradition for a very long time. As a parent you watch for your children's safety regardless if they are trick or treating or anything else they are doing. That's a given. We haven't had any clown acting up here, I'm sorry you had trouble.
  • heathersmilez
    heathersmilez Posts: 2,579 Member
    Who dropped a turd in your Halloween sack?

    Ditto! I love Halloween here and 1 overindulgent treat day a year (or 3 if you indulge in Christmas and Valentines) is part of life, a happy life. Don't give your healthy child a complex about diets already.
  • heathersmilez
    heathersmilez Posts: 2,579 Member
    One thing, I've gone trick or treating at least until i was 14. I've never ever had a cavity and i ate all of my candy every year. So thats proof that halloween candy every year for like 12 years isn't going to give you a ton of cavity's

    Excellent! Until age 17 here, not a single cavity and I have never been overweight in my life so it’s never made me fat.
  • XxXskinnyMiniXxX
    XxXskinnyMiniXxX Posts: 325 Member
    One thing, I've gone trick or treating at least until i was 14. I've never ever had a cavity and i ate all of my candy every year. So thats proof that halloween candy every year for like 12 years isn't going to give you a ton of cavity's

    Excellent! Until age 17 here, not a single cavity and I have never been overweight in my life so it’s never made me fat.

    Candy isn't the reason for my weight gain. After we moved when I was 12 I was pretty bummed and it went downhill from there lol But candy and sweets are evil or anything.
  • LeonaB17
    LeonaB17 Posts: 304 Member
    When I was a child I was ALWAYS supervised by one or both parents when I went trick or treating. One of my favorite holidays of the year. I loved getting dressed up and I loved the candy. I lived in a very close knit safe neighborhood where everybody knew everybody else. It was a blast!
  • _Timmeh_
    _Timmeh_ Posts: 2,096 Member
    So it's the candy? Damn, and here I thought it was the cheeseburgers and pizza and burrito's and french fries and deep fried.......
    The thought process is amazingly depressing.
  • XxXskinnyMiniXxX
    XxXskinnyMiniXxX Posts: 325 Member
    So it's the candy? Damn, and here I thought it was the cheeseburgers and pizza and burrito's and french fries and deep fried.......
    The thought process is amazingly depressing.
    I thought the same thing
  • ellisalockwood
    ellisalockwood Posts: 31 Member
    I don't give my kids candy because one of my daughters is disabled and has really bad teeth because of the steroids she was put on when she was 4, it made her gums harden and now her baby teeth don't fall out right, mix that with the fact that she doesn't brush her teeth nearly as well as she should, she gets cavities really easy. It's not fair for the other kids to have candy and she can't, so no candy. Granted, softer sweets are ok because they don't get stuck to her teeth as much so they get the occasional cookie or cakes or whatever, but hardly any candy.

    I went trick or treating alone when I was a kid, my mom said she checked my candy but I'm pretty sure she just jacked all my chocolate...
  • adrian_indy
    adrian_indy Posts: 1,444 Member
    People should supervise their kids, so we are in agreement about that. But candy does not make people fat. Lots of candy makes people fat. If parents would set rules down for themselves and their children, a piece of candy everyonce in a while is not going to damage them. Just don't let them gorge and brush their teeth.

    Halloween is one day a year, what would be the point of taking that away from them. We over-eat on Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, and at just plain ole BBQs. If your objection is the security aspect of it, they are going to have to leave the house sometime. I haven't decided yet at what age my children can be in the neighborhood unsupervised, but don't let it be until their late teenage years. Those are always the kids that go wild and end up at best in the police blotter, or worse, dead from alcohol poisoning or foul play.
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