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Annual Halloween Is Being Stolen From Today's Children
Posted on 10/23/23 at 2:00 pm
Posted on 10/23/23 at 2:00 pm
Halloween has turned into a fragmented, watered down version of what is used to be. Instead of everyone trick or treating on Halloween night, parents take their kids to "safe zones" like churches or parking lots or down commercial streets where they can go collect candy while wearing a costume (I don't call that trick or treating). These events trypically aren't even on Halloween. Some towns schedule a night for trick or treating that's not even on Halloween night. Why!?
We are robbing our children of one of the most special times of being a child. There's nothing like trick or treating on Halloween night. Seeing mobs of kids all walking the dark streets at the same time, having nearly all houses in all neighborhoods with their lights on inviting trick or treaters, and being able to look forward to that night every year without having to ask "what night are we allowed to trick or treat this year?"
Halloween should not be a carefully planned, controlled event where old people force kids to engage in Halloween on the old people's terms. Halloween is Halloween and old people should deal with it and give the kids the Halloween they got when they were kids!
We are robbing our children of one of the most special times of being a child. There's nothing like trick or treating on Halloween night. Seeing mobs of kids all walking the dark streets at the same time, having nearly all houses in all neighborhoods with their lights on inviting trick or treaters, and being able to look forward to that night every year without having to ask "what night are we allowed to trick or treat this year?"
Halloween should not be a carefully planned, controlled event where old people force kids to engage in Halloween on the old people's terms. Halloween is Halloween and old people should deal with it and give the kids the Halloween they got when they were kids!
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Posted on 10/23/23 at 2:02 pm to pioneerbasketball
Soft men create hard times.
Posted on 10/23/23 at 2:02 pm to pioneerbasketball
quote:Razor blades in Apples?
Halloween is Halloween and old people should deal with it and give the kids the Halloween they got when they were kids!
Posted on 10/23/23 at 2:02 pm to soccerfüt
Nobody makes popcorn balls anymore 
Posted on 10/23/23 at 2:03 pm to pioneerbasketball
quote:And everything is scheduled as a "play date" now.
Annual Halloween Is Being Stolen From Today's Children
Posted on 10/23/23 at 2:03 pm to pioneerbasketball
I've questioned my neighborhood why I am expected to sit out in my drive way. Parents won't have them come up to the door and ring the door bell or knock. I'm not getting off my couch and away from my tv for that reason
Posted on 10/23/23 at 2:04 pm to soccerfüt
quote:
Razor blades in Apples?
character builder
Posted on 10/23/23 at 2:06 pm to pioneerbasketball
I hate this thread
Posted on 10/23/23 at 2:07 pm to pioneerbasketball
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We are robbing our children of one of the most special times of being a child.
Depends. My son would wait till the trick or treaters stopped coming, put on an army jacket and fatigues, grab a pillow case, and go around taking the rest of our neighbors candy off the hands of the parents that didn't want any leftovers.
Posted on 10/23/23 at 2:07 pm to pioneerbasketball
Do we really need this thread from you every year?
This post was edited on 10/23/23 at 2:09 pm
Posted on 10/23/23 at 2:08 pm to pioneerbasketball
Pastor Steve is hosting trunk-or-treat in the church parking lot at 5pm on Friday so the kids don't have to be out in the dark or go door to door on a school night. Only cute, fun costumes too; nothing scary because he said that's too close to devil worship
Posted on 10/23/23 at 2:12 pm to Big Scrub TX
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And everything is scheduled as a "play date" now.
My wife and I had a disagreement the other night about Halloween. My son and his three other 10 and 11 year old buddies want to do trick or treating in our small neighborhood with the little siblings and then head over to the larger neighborhood across the street afterwards. They want to go unsupervised.
I see no issue with it. It's four boys going to a neighborhood where we already know quite a few families. It will be full of schoolmates and kids they know. There are good streetlights and we live in a practically zero-crime area.
My wife thinks it's a crazy idea.
Posted on 10/23/23 at 2:13 pm to pioneerbasketball
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Seeing mobs of kids all walking the dark streets at the same time, having nearly all houses in all neighborhoods with their lights on inviting trick or treaters, and being able to look forward to that night every year without having to ask "what night are we allowed to trick or treat this year?"
My neighborhood is like this.
Also, the neighborhood group has gotten so tired of the "why can't we trick or treat on the weekend this year" women that they openly mock them for months before Halloween. It really ended the chatter.
Posted on 10/23/23 at 2:14 pm to pioneerbasketball
trunk or treat is great for the diabetees business. kids dont even have to go door to door. they walk down a row of cars, get all the processed sugar they need for the year, and are home 20 mins later.
Posted on 10/23/23 at 2:16 pm to soccerfüt
That’s 1960s technology boomer.
Posted on 10/23/23 at 2:17 pm to pioneerbasketball
Depends on where you live, in shitty towns that have gotten run over by libs it’s changed bc it’s no longer safe.
It’s still like it use to be where I live
It’s still like it use to be where I live
Posted on 10/23/23 at 2:17 pm to pioneerbasketball
Not sure about you but I am just looking forward to the clearance Halloween candy sales
This post was edited on 10/23/23 at 2:18 pm
Posted on 10/23/23 at 2:18 pm to pioneerbasketball
Halloween is huge in my neighborhood. Gathering before for food and drinks. And then trick or treating all through the neighborhood after it gets dark. Parents have a good time, kids have a good time.
Posted on 10/23/23 at 2:20 pm to jmarto1
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I've questioned my neighborhood why I am expected to sit out in my drive way. Parents won't have them come up to the door and ring the door bell or knock. I'm not getting off my couch and away from my tv for that reason
I used to say this and in my neighborhood this is option, but I've actually come to like it. Weather is usually beautiful...me and the wife will make cocktails and chill and just watch the neighborhood go by.
A few Halloweens ago the saints played on Halloween night, and I put the patio TV out by my table and brought out a few of my bourbon bottles... lot of the fellow neighborhood dads had a blast stopping by and lingering
This post was edited on 10/23/23 at 3:55 pm
Posted on 10/23/23 at 2:20 pm to pioneerbasketball
quote:
Nobody makes popcorn balls anymore
Widowed elderly neighbor lady always made the best popcorn balls. She had no children of her own. She always dressed like a witch and was in her front yard stirring a big cauldron which I presume was full of dry ice making the steam. I didn't know anything about dry ice at the time or what she was actually stirring in that pot. It was mysterious and fun every single year.
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