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Yearly Halloween Is Being Stolen From Today's Children
Posted on 10/25/20 at 9:41 am
Posted on 10/25/20 at 9:41 am
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 10/25/20 at 9:43 am to pioneerbasketball
I don't care about Halloween, but who cares if kids get candy at an event, instead of door to door.
Posted on 10/25/20 at 9:44 am to pioneerbasketball
Trump should do something about this travesty.
Posted on 10/25/20 at 9:44 am to pioneerbasketball
It’s been happening for quite awhile now.
Posted on 10/25/20 at 9:46 am to pioneerbasketball
My kids have never not gone door to door. But I also live in neighborhoods where I don’t worry if my kids are playing outside without me watching them 24/7. If I lived in slums I probably would try to find a safe space too.
Posted on 10/25/20 at 9:46 am to pioneerbasketball
This doesn't happen in my area. Kids are all over the neighborhood. Only problem is that between 6p and 8p it isn't very dark here.
Posted on 10/25/20 at 9:48 am to pioneerbasketball
It’s happened as normal every year since we moved into our neighborhood 18 years ago. I think there was one year trick or treating was moved to 11/1 because of thunderstorms on 10/31.
Posted on 10/25/20 at 9:51 am to pioneerbasketball
Pussification of America.
Posted on 10/25/20 at 9:58 am to pioneerbasketball
Meh
Our kids did all of it.
Our kids did all of it.
Posted on 10/25/20 at 9:59 am to pioneerbasketball
Razor blades and needles inserted into candies had a lot to do with it, I’m sure. Never happened in my neighborhood but the news media is national and international now and a story from anywhere can be made to seem local.
Posted on 10/25/20 at 10:00 am to pioneerbasketball
My kids go roam the streets and get candy baw. On Halloween until they get bored. Sorry you live in pussyville
Posted on 10/25/20 at 10:01 am to pioneerbasketball
The world is changing and I'm scared.
Posted on 10/25/20 at 10:04 am to pioneerbasketball
Posted on 10/25/20 at 10:09 am to pioneerbasketball
My kids definitely go door-to-door, and after about an hour of it, the parents bring the kids to someone’s house, where the parents can socialize and drink.
Much like birthdays nowadays, Halloween is more about a socialized gathering for the adults than it is about the kids. Pretty ridiculous.
Much like birthdays nowadays, Halloween is more about a socialized gathering for the adults than it is about the kids. Pretty ridiculous.
Posted on 10/25/20 at 11:13 am to pioneerbasketball
I miss “Trick or Treat for UNICEF”. People were expected to give the kid a small donation to UNICEF. I think the Clinton Foundation gave a bigger percentage of donations to the needy than kids gave to UNICEF.
Posted on 10/25/20 at 11:17 am to pioneerbasketball
We live and a nice neighborhood and the car loads of kids that come in riding from house to house has gotten out of hand. We still give candy out though, who am I to deny little Jaxton of his Reece.
Posted on 10/25/20 at 11:23 am to lsuwontonwrap
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I don't care about Halloween, but who cares if kids get candy at an event, instead of door to door.
On the spectrum?
Posted on 10/25/20 at 11:28 am to pioneerbasketball
Retail stores hijacked it for most of us years ago. About 4 years we drove back from Yellowstone through NW colorado heading back to Meeker, CO. Passed through Craig just as it was getting dark and there were kids and families everywhere trick or treating. You would have thought it was the 70s in that town.
Halloween still happens in smaller towns like it always has. The larger cities ruined it decades ago.
Halloween still happens in smaller towns like it always has. The larger cities ruined it decades ago.
Posted on 10/25/20 at 11:33 am to OSoBad
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We live in a nice neighborhood and the car loads of kids that come in riding from house to house has gotten out of hand
That's the worst part of it here too. The parents are too lazy to walk around the blocks so they just sit in their cars and deprive the kids of the true experience of walking the neighborhood going door to door.
Posted on 10/25/20 at 11:43 am to lsuwontonwrap
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I don't care about Halloween, but who cares if kids get candy at an event, instead of door to door
It’s little to do with candy and everything to do with building lasting memories and experiences for your children. That isn’t accomplished at a truck or treat. I remember Halloween and the experience of just walking and taking it all in as a kid.
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