Do you let your children go "trick or treating?"?

Answer 1

I usually accompany my 6 and 3 year old around the block and back. It's quick, it's safe, and our neighborhood is very generous with the goods. One lady even gives the grown-ups hot chocolate with a touch of brandy in it. :)

Answer 2

yes!!!
I love Halloween
I well remember the joy I got from it as a child and I love seeing my children get the same joy from it.

My house is already 1/2 decorated for the holiday. I've got a giant spiderweb strung up outside and it's dripping in spiders and skeletons. I have 4 hay bales on the lawn that will be lit with candles on Halloween night.

We're lucky to live across from an old home who's owners go nuts for Halloween (we only go 1/2 nuts *lol*) so kids from all over town come to our street. Usually I get about 200+ kids trick or treating. I'll be in full costume to hand out candies and my son will be at a house party this year because he's 15 and thinks he's too old to trick or treat. :(

When my boys were young, I did take appropriate parental precautions though. I made sure they had a strong pillowcase to hold all that heavy candy and they both always carried flashlights because you can make the best spooky faces with flashlights.

Reading all the answers in your thread from parents who don't allow trick or treating really made me a bit sad... it's one of the real and bright joys of a child's life. It's the one that teaches them about neighbours and friends and the open spirits of people. As a parent, I think we have as much responsibility to expose our kids to the good things of the world as we do hiding them from dangers. It's not too hard to show the difference between a silly tradition and stranger danger. Anyone who thinks that allowing kids to go door to door with hundreds of others one day a year is sheltering them more from the light than they are from the dark and that's a shame.

Oh, I also let my kids go carolling at Christmas ;)

Answer 3

Yes, they're allowed to go in our (very safe) neighborhood for an hour before we go to our yearly Halloween party at a friend's house.
Unfortunately not all families play along and they don't know the rule about leaving the porch light OFF if you don't want any trick or treaters.

Answer 4

No, i do no longer. My father and mom the two extraordinarily much continuously under the effect of alcohol and subsequently did no longer care if I drank or no longer, and so I usually did as a youthful teen. (I easily won't be able to submit to in concepts a time whilst my father hadn't been ingesting). ingesting at a youthful age became additionally extra socially ideal in that society than it rather is the place we live now. i do no longer think of I gained something from the loose reign. I decide to no longer drink in any respect now (will do now and returned at social activities, etc. yet do no longer save any alcohol at domicile). the main needed ingredient, in my opinion, is modelling wholesome ingesting conduct, and not arising a "badass stigma" approximately ingesting. it rather is authentic that international locations with larger legal a while, have extra issues of binge ingesting and youth, which actual isn't a twist of fate. i think of that I do form wholesome ingesting conduct yet i do no longer enable them to drink.

Answer 5

Yes. Our town closes down a street and all the businesses hand out candy to the kids. It's really fun.
After that we hit our apartment complex and a couple of streets where the houses are really close together.
I understand why people wouldn't want to celebrate Halloween, especially for religious reasons, but it's my personal favorite holliday!

Answer 6

We take my niece and nephew out to one of the nursing homes in town. The patients there hand out little suckers and all. It is not a lot of candy but them older people enjoy seeing all the children that go through. It makes there days a lot better. We don't go outside of that mainly because I feel that they don't need the sugar.

Answer 7

With me, yes. He will be 3 in February and we will probably do the same as last year... trick or treat at the neighbors, the church where he attends daycare, and then at our family's.

Answer 8

I don't have kids myself (yet, got one on the way) but I have six nieces and a nephew and we have taken them out in the past. They have always been accompanied by their Mom, my brother if he's in town (he's a truck driver),myself and my bf. (Although my sister says me and my bf act more like kids and so it's like she's taking 9 kids) But anywhoo, other than that we take them to a local church that has a yearly harvest festival and for like $1-$2 each they get to play games eat burgers, hot dogs, chips, soda etc. And in most recent years we've had a party for friends and family. That way nobody is out on the streets in that crazy traffic and we know the food and candy are all good.

Answer 9

If you're choosy with the neighborhood you let them trick or treat in, go with them of course, and check the treats before they eat any...I see nothing wrong with letting them go.

Answer 10

Yes, with me. Maybe a street or two that I'm familiar with. I always try to find a good event to go to instead though - something organized by the church, or the city. That way they have fun and I feel more comfortable of their safety.