Comments on: Are your tweenagers trick-or-treating without you?

By: infant reflux

infant reflux — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:39:47 +0000

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By: FCM

FCM — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:19:17 +0000

MJG and the rest, please be assured that while I drove to my friends’ neighborhood, we all walked door to door to get ToT even the little one (who of course is not mine).

By: Becky

Becky — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:43:51 +0000

@fk, it’s not just boys that change costumes..When I was 8-9 and went with my sisters and their friends that were about3 years older than me, we would change mask at every other house and go back and forth..We found a man once that was giving out quarters, we hit his house about 10 times before he realized what was happening..

By: DB

DB — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:30:39 +0000

My husband and I went out to dinner and went to see “Law Abiding Citizen” on Halloween night, as we weren’t expecting many, if any, kids (house on a hill at the end of a dead-end street, etc., we’ve never had much traffic.)

Yikes! That was about as scary as I care for! A few holes in the plot you could drive a truck thru, but it was nice spending the evening with my DH.

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:23:25 +0000

I’m definately taking the dogs out next year…MJG I would have loved to have seen that!

By: motherjanegoose

motherjanegoose — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:30:35 +0000

@ Tiffany….our dogs were Minnie ( ours) and Mickey Mouse ( my sister’s). My daughter is the queen of dressing up the dogs and we laughed our heads off as usual! It was so rainy here that we did not take the dogs out but the kids could see them from our front door…we put up a baby gate.

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:51:30 +0000

fk-the costume changing idea is classic! I love it.

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:48:42 +0000

We saw a lot of parents in cars last night, but it had more to do with the rain than anything else. They mostly parked in the cul-de-sacs while the kids walked around. It did not bother anyone that they did that. I am amazed at how many kids and their parents were out last night despite the rainy weather…it was awesome. I also saw a lot of folks- I am assuming that maybe their kids were out and about by themselves…the adults had their dogs with them and the dogs were dressed up really CUTE in their own little costumes. That’s a fun way for the parents to still enjoy halloween when the kids are out trick or treating on their own.

By: fk

fk — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:46:17 +0000

My son stopped trick or treating by middle school, his choice. He was allowed to go out with his friends the year before, unchaperoned, in the fifth grade, and I think, maybe in the 4th. We live in the middle of the n’hood, so half way thru, he stopped back to empty his “stash”. Plus, the other kids in his group had homes scattered throughout the n’hood. There were lots of parents out there, but did I reiterate about the idiot drivers who don’t slow down on this particular night. Getting hit by a car was far more likely an occurence than getting snatched. My husband and a couple of other dads always took the boys around when they were younger. The dads were pretty much the deciding factor, indicating when they felt the boys could do it without them.

Went up to Nashville this weekend…drive had beautiful scenery with the changing colors of the leaves. First time in 19 years we weren’t home for Halloween. Funny thing, my nephew, now 25, was talking about the first time he and his friends were allowed to go out trick-or-treating alone. They mapped out their route (from memory of previous years) where they got the “best” candy, and did it 3x, changing their costumes 3x. Boys!

By: motherjanegoose

motherjanegoose — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:39:01 +0000

@ FCM….you are so correct. When I am sharing PUMPKIN TIME ( my October theme with stories and songs) with children, it is adorable to watch their little faces. My friends in Alaska tell me they were having a wonderful time with the “spooky” songs I made up.

I am ALL about anyone coming to our neighborhood and my front door. The driving through the neighborhood is what makes me cranky, I am old fashioned about children walking to get their candy and not having their parents drive them to each door.