I dont get it they say dont take the candy from strangers...then on hallpween they say go get the candy from the nice stranger...i have heard parents say that exact thing...i just dont get it!
2007-01-24 12:42:32 · 10 answers · asked by system error 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Halloween
Trick-or-treating is so very different that being lured into a child predator's grasp.
Parents supervise children's trick or treating, and usually keep to their own or really known neighbourhoods or even the mall. Most parents check to see if it has been tampered with post trick or treating. This is a community event and celebration.
Children are discouraged from accepting candy at other times of the year because it falls outside the norm. It could have been laced with drugs, like the candy necklaces laced with E a few years back, and is most likely being used as a molester's lure while the parent is not around.
If you really can't see the difference, maybe it would help to think of it that the child has transformed himself into something empowering (hence, the costume) and is braving the porch steps not to be intimidated, but rewarded, on this one very special magical night.
After all, kids need to learn to trust their own instincts at some point. They're not stupid--believe me, they know the difference between Halloween and everyday life.
2007-01-25 10:17:29 · answer #1 · answered by mithril 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What about parents who take kids to the mall to sit on this strangers lap at Christmas time. He is dressed in a funny suit.
To the kids he is a stranger and then they are to ask Santa Clause a stranger to bring them gifts. He will buy you stuff your selfish parents won't buy you.
He breaks into our house to leave gifts. So some guy breaks in and they go great this must be Santa Clause.
Instead of the chimney he is coming in a window.
They tell them about Easter bunny's and laying colored eggs and all this stuff and then get mad if they lie.
Or make up an imaginary friend.
No wonder kids grow up confused.
or dress up in a sheet and go to all the neighbors we don't know and beg for candy. I am suprised more kids are not kidnapped.
That lady says well parents are with kids if something happens.
How do kids know the difference???? This time you can do it next time you can't???
2007-01-24 12:50:55 · answer #2 · answered by Ruth 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The majority of the time parents go trick or treating with their children. Also many towns cities let you take the candy to the hospital to let it get scanned. Also parents don't just let their kids go to any house. Houses that they know. I mean good parents do this. lol
2007-01-26 08:32:11 · answer #3 · answered by Purple_Freak_Faery 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hey there little kid??? Want some candy?? I jave a nice puppy for you to play with too.. Ha..ha.. Just being silly but you are right..free candy and a parent would let their child go into a strangers house.. does sound crazy, even to me and I'm a nut.
2007-01-25 14:49:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
umm well first they dont say"take candy from strangers" they say "go trick-or-treating" which does not imply that you are going to be in danger. second, usually you know the neighbors so it isnt a problem. if you live in that bad of a neighborhood, well then just dont go trick or treating there go with a friend in their neighborhood.
2007-01-28 02:35:02 · answer #5 · answered by bluesclues 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I gess its beacuse its a time wen they want their kids to hav fun
and most of the time the parents are with their kids so they will know what to do if something bad happens.
2007-01-24 12:50:55 · answer #6 · answered by Sarah A 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you notice, a lot of parents aren't allowing their kids to trick or treat. I guess they allow trick or treating because most people are familiar with their neighborhood and ASSUME people who live there are decent like them.
2007-01-24 12:46:46 · answer #7 · answered by TwinkaTee 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hmmmm what my family would always do is. when we got home from halloween, my parents would chek all the candies and say "you never know there might be something bad in it." I dunno if i helped Hahaha
2007-01-24 12:46:10 · answer #8 · answered by Kiyoshi Shimizu 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wow. that's kinda creepy, man. I didn't think of it like that. I'm never going trick-or-treating again!!=)
2007-01-24 12:47:03 · answer #9 · answered by Karyn E 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
you should be going trick-or-treating in your neighborhood and if you know your neighbors then they are not stragers
2007-01-28 10:07:28 · answer #10 · answered by Answerfinder1360 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋