What Is Your Stance on Halloween?

I love All Hallows Eve - Sam Hain. I would give good for you snacks but parents only take treats that are wrapped from the store - guess fruit rollups are a copromise. Don't celebrate to much as I'm not into drunken parties not my scene. Now if I could rent a castle in Scotland and have a costumed dinner party where the guests play a mylot type game - or maybe rent a mystery troupe - you know the whodunit parties? Or maybe some kind of theme like the whodunit but with ghosts and such - make it seem real - but of course everyone knows its all in fine. So when I'm finally rich you and Alex are invited!

I love Halloween! It is my favorite holiday after Christmas. My family always let my sister and I participate. My mom still has a party every year. It's all in good fun. Halloween is only what you make it. It's not right to assume the whole holiday is evil because some people make it that way. I understand that some people look at it religiously, but I was brought up in church my whole life and Halloween never hurt me. No one has to let their kids dress up and go out trick-or-treating, but why deny them that fun? Parents can go with their kids to make sure they stay safe. No kids come down my road but I would give out candy if they did. My husband and I decorate the whole house and when we have children, they will be more than welcome to participate in Halloween. There are so many fun things to do. My husband and I go to a pumpkin patch every year and we each get a pumpkin to carve. We dress up and go to my mom's house where we have a small family party. There is more to Halloween than evil stuff and egging houses.:)

Halloween is one of my favorite times of year. When else can you pretend to be someone or something your not without any consiquences. The fire Department I am a part of holds a huge haunted house every year and I am alwasy involved in building and working the house. I take my kids trick or treating, and pass out candy from my house.

I dont really know much about it, apart from that it is an American tradition...I am in Australia and I dont beleive or let my children particpate in it, We do have kids coming to the door saying trick or treat, I tell them trick but all they want is lollies ???? Seems very strange to me..

I love Halloween. It's the one day each year that people can dress up as who they see themselves inside & not have people freak out at them! It's a time of liberation! I wish every day were like Halloween!

i believe if you celebrate it in a fun way with fun costumes not the devil or witch but other costumes it is fun and i would celebrate it with children in my home with a party because of the dangers of halloweening these days-- when i was a little we use to give the halloweeners pennies since we had lots of them

I love Halloween, and my family never thought that it was "Satanic". We always thought that it was fun. My brother and I loved it because we could dress up as superheroes, pirates, mer-people, royality, and people from history. Halloween for us was an extention of an RPG.

We celebrate Halloween. If you look into most holidays, you will find that there are certain aspects of them that oppose Christian beliefs. But Christians still celebrate those holidays. I think holidays are what you make them. You can celebrate them however you want, and make them mean whatever you want to your children. My son will be almost 21 months old this year on Halloween. We are definitely going to get him a costume, but I don't know if we are going to take him trick or treating or not. If we don't, we will stay home and hand out candy to the kids that do come here.

I see halloween as dressing up and trick or treating. Nothing wrong with that.

In general, my church does prohibit us from believing and participating Halloween. However, being tradition, our family kind of go along with it just for fun. Because Halloween today have become more of like a night for the kids to have fun and be kids, and adults to be kids again too. I guess there's no more of that pagan ritual that was done in the past during Halloween. Halloween now have just become a holiday for every body. We give both tricks and treats to the kids. We trick them first and give them the treats after. It brings out the smile to every kids faces.

My religious beliefs don't stop it at all. I grew up celebrating halloween and have never had any intentions of not letting my kids. My BIL however is the opposite. But its not really due to religion. But he won't let his daughter participate in halloween at all. But he does hand out candy. Seems hypocritical to me plus your flaunting it in your childs face every time you open the door to give kids candy. I say if either you do it all the way or not at all. Great question by the way!!