Will you allow your kids going door to door for trick or treat by themselves?

not a chance. my son is 7. my husband and i always go with him door to door even though we're going to houses in our area. We go for a few reasons. i don't feel it's safe for my son to go out by himself door to door. also, my husband and i both enjoy dressing up too and going door to door.

I have heard that in the US tha "poison in your candy" and "razorblade in your apple" stories are actually astronomically overblown. There may have been one or two incidences of this through the years but it has grown as urban legend. I would not let my kids go till last year when my daughter was 9 and my son 13. I waited mainly because the kids are hard to see by those in cars at night. Crossing the streets can be dangerous. Plus I just like going along with them. Now it would probably be uncool for me to go although I still might.

My children are so far apart in ages that it always worked out that there was a little one who needed me to be there. So if the older ones were still young enough to go at all, they'd come along with us & the littler sibling. I think I would let a child around 11 go around a neighborhood by themselves, but only with clear directions about where they could go & when they had to be home.

My kids are still too young to go by themselves. Times have changed. I know when I was my son's age living in a small town I got to go out by myself, but anymore you can't trust too many people. He is almost 9. I think it will be a few years still before I let him go alone.

No, I will not.. If they go, I will make sure that another trusted adult has gone with them. I would never leave them to go alone on their own.. This could be very dangerous.. My kids are very young, and I don;t want to risk having something bad happen to them.. I could not live with myself, if something happened.. I will go with them being as their mother..

I don't have children, but I have younger siblings that will still be trick or treating this year. My parents never let us go alone. When they were smaller they would walk up to the door with them, but the past couple years, we just stay at the end of the driveway while the kids run up to the door.

It depends whether your area is safe or not. We do not have this custom in Malta. However I would not let young kids roaming on their own. If they are still young I would prefer to supervise them at least from a distance. I am afraid that a psychopath or a pedophile might see this as a golden occasion to abuse children. © ronaldinu 2008

My daughter is 5. She is way too young. So my answer is heck no!These days even 15,16 year olds turn up missing. I remember a time when I went out by myself. Just me and some friends. But times are too different. Call me paranoid. But I'd rather be too careful, than sorry.

depend how old they are. like 12 or 13 yea i think i would, it also depend where you live at as well. if it's safe around there. but either way i would want my kids go with a group of kids. not alone

I don't have any small children all my children are grown ups now. That is not a wise choice to let children go trick or treating alone. They should have an adult with them at all time. Here they have a curfew and it is before sundown and an age limit, the children that do trick are small and they start at 5:00 pm and end at 7:00. Most of them don't do door to door trick or treating anymore. They have Halloween carnivals at the schools. I know last year not a single child come to my house trick or treating.

i am not a mom yet but if ever i am going to be one and have a child, i wouldn't allow him to go by himself since it's too dangerous to ask for candies to people whom you don't know personally.. if he wanted to go for trick or treat then i will accompany my child and go to a safer place like the shopping mall.

My parents and uncle and aunts used to let my cousins and I go trick or treating by ourselves, that's like when I was about 5th grade, and my cousins who went trick or treating with me were younger... that was like 8 years ago or so. But yes, that is true that there are millions of psychos, so if I had kids of my own (which will be in like about a decade or so) I think I will have a trusted adult who will supervise my child(ren) to go trick or treating. I really think that the outside world isn't so safe, and I am pretty sure I am right. But then again, my uncle, who is an experienced person on trick or treating, did take the bags of candies we have collected from other strangers, and did do some "scanning" through the candies, because they might be harmful for us. Back then, obviously we would be like "what...?" and think that our parents were kind of picky and maybe tyranny, but they are actually right, like you said, some strangers out there could give out the candies or food with poison, you never know.

I would have no issue letting my 11 year old go out and trick or treat. I am completely comfortable with our neighborhood and I certainly think he's old enough to go out on his own. However, since I have two littler children, my wife and I are going to take all of them together. It's better for them to see their older brother and how he does it anyway, plus they'll be able to enjoy the holiday together.

HECK NO! I would NEVER let my child go Trick or Treating by themselves. I'm not worried about the neighbors or gettingn poison candy. I'm more worried about weirdos who go to different neighborhoods preying on innocent children. You don't know who is out there...

I am not a parent but even if I was there is absolutely NO way I'd let my children go out at night on their own knocking on strangers doors, it is a very unsafe world and there are so many 'weird' people out there, it's not worth the risk. You don't know who's around either, for the sake of extra sweets why take the chance, when I worked at a school once we would always advise the children to go with an adult at all times and never to go out alone, it is dangerous during the daytime, more so at night!

Hello aisaellis22 I have three kids aged 3, 5 and 7 and they will be going out trick or treating for the first ever time this year but only with me. I have spoken to a neighbour who lives further down from me and she said that she was the only house where a family live and the rest of the houses are owned by really old people. I will not take my children there because that would be unfair. If anyone puts any handmade cakes or candies I shall take them away from my kids and throw them away as you can never be too sure what some nasty people might have put in them during baking! Also anything that is not in a wrapper or the wrapper looks like it has been tampered with I shall throw awat. Better to be safe than sorry eh?

My kids will defiately NOT be going door to door alone. I will be with them the entire way. There are just too many creeps in this world to trust that my kids would be safe.

My boys are older now,I don't have any little ones at home.When my boys were small i always took them out and my partner would give the treats out at our house or visa versa,he would go out with the boys and i would stay home.My boys were never allowed to eat anything until they were finished and all goodies were inspected.If any of the neighbors made candy apples or fudge they were marked with name , address, and phone number. happy mylotting

my daughter is only 5 yrs old so there's no way i am gonna let her go trick or treat alone. my husband's 2 girls are going with her. we have a very quiet and nice neighborhood so we're not really worried about people being harsh to kids. we plan on taking them trick or treat in the mall as well

Heck no I would not let my kids go by themselves. There are too many pedophiles out there that could lure them into their houses. I live in a small town and do not trust everyone I could not imagine being in the city.