Would you rather them attend a function in your own neighbourhood, school or church etc? Why do we teach our kids that taking from a stranger is not okay but on Halloween it is a different story, especially when it is a lot harder to track down where it came from, seeing as it is all thrown together.
2006-10-05 05:24:11 · 12 answers · asked by Michelle 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Halloween
My children and their cousins will be attending a Halloween party in my home. We will not be going to anyone else's door, except maybe a few relatives!!
Good point!!!
2006-10-05 05:45:11 · answer #1 · answered by startwinkle05 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Whats the difference of getting together with our neighbourhood or going door to door in a neighbourhood if we know our neighbours? I would never send my kids out alone to go trick or treating. I check all candy before they eat it. Thats the fun of Halloween for a child. I do not let my kids eat any homemade candy or popcorn balls. Plus I am with my kids. They can say hi to someone when I am there they dont talk to strangers if I am not there. Im the boss, I say when and when they cant do something. My kids know the difference.
2006-10-05 12:34:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Gosh... Did you all not go trick or treating as a child? Why rob your child of such a fun experience? Halloween is a dying holiday because of beliefs like yours. The media is much to blame for this. They scare people into thinking in every neighborhood in America there is someone who will try to taint your child's candy. The fact is these incidences have only happened few and far between. If you feel uneasy of a person or house, simply don't take your child there to trick or treat. Most people who do hand out candy have children and grandchildren of their own and do not wish to cause harm to yours. You are right about teaching our children not to talk to or take candy from strangers, but we also teach them not to lie. We lie to them with every holiday with stories of certain entities that bring toys and candy (you know what I mean). If it makes you feel better only go to the houses of people you know. Give your children the experience all kids deserve.
2006-10-05 13:48:44 · answer #3 · answered by Pren 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The reason children are told not to take candy from strangers isn't so much that the candy is likely dangerous as much as the fact that predators would lure children into their cars/homes by giving them candy.
2006-10-05 12:33:38 · answer #4 · answered by kheserthorpe 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
paranoid much? see when they go trick or treating they should go with u or another responsible adult. and not let them go into any houses things like that. atleast til they are old enough to have their own concious of whome to trust or whome not to. ( say fifteen and older if they still trick or treat) also when ya'll get home go through the candy and anything homemade or unwrapped or just suspicious looking like fruit
take out of the pile and throw away immediately. that way you dont have to worry about so much. and trick or treat isnt the same as taking candy from strangers you go around your neighborhood to peoples houses u know and trust.
2006-10-05 12:55:32 · answer #5 · answered by PyroPixie 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I have a ten year old son, and I have NEVER allowed him to trick or treat. Kids today get too many mixed messages. You teach your child not to talk to strangers, and Never take candy from them, but once a year you dress them up and send them out to do exactly what you have taught them NOT to? We attend our Church Harvest Party. It angers me that people encourage trick or treating. It is UNSAFE and INSANE!!
2006-10-05 12:39:19 · answer #6 · answered by Shannon Sullivan 1 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I take my kids to their school for "Trunk or Treat"...all the parents line up in the parking lot and the kids go around to get candy that way. Afterwards we go around our street to people we know.
2006-10-05 12:32:46 · answer #7 · answered by Get_R_Done_n_Dallas 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its perfectly fine! As long as you check everything in your kids bags when they get home and throw away anything that looks opened or is homemade. I know when I was a kid I would have really despised being told I couldnt trick or treat and had to go to a community thing.
2006-10-05 12:38:49 · answer #8 · answered by radiancia 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Actually, we know all the people on our street so I guess they're not taking any candy from strangers....
2006-10-05 12:31:41 · answer #9 · answered by Andy FF1,2,CrTr,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would not let my children take candy from a stranger. I take them around myself.
2006-10-05 13:08:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋