Halloween, Does this make Us Hypocrytes?

That is a very interesting question. I never really thought about it before. I took some neighbours´ kids trick or treating when I was 16 but I never did it myself as a child. Their parents wouldn´t have let them go alone (for the reasons you said) but I was the adult with them. I don´t have children myself yet so I can´t really say what I´d do.

I think many years ago when the tradition of going door to door started the people in the communities knew each other. I remember when I was a kid we knew who lived in just about every house in the neighborhood. While we may not have been "friends" with them, we knew their names and where they worked and a little about them. Now a days we tend to keep to ourselves. I know I am guilty of that. I have lived in my neighborhood for over a year and I can't tell you a single neighbors name.

I do it because I want to eat all the candy they bring home-ha ha. I guess I went when I was a kid, it's tradition.

I'm a bit of a neurotic mother, and obsessively read books on keeping children safe, when my youngest was a baby. A lot of the authors recommended NOT warning children about strangers. Instead they suggest you warn your kids about people who give them an uncomfortable feeling. Usually people who molest children are known to them, and if a child ever gets lost, you would want them to approach a stranger (preferably a mother with young children) to get help. That said I DO feel like a hypocrite at Halloween, because I spend the entire year, talking about how bad candy is for you. My kids have been asking why it's OK to go out and get a whole bagful in one night, and I don't have a good answer to that one.

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wow....great point.....I dont have a response other than to say wow...my children are older and I never thought about that and I preached the buddy system and never talking to strangers there whole life....great question.

I think we do it cause that is what has always been done.

The answer to your question is yes...holloween is a day that kids dress in scary outfits and go door to door getting candy but, everyone does not have the same ideas and the same thought about halloween some people look at this as the devils day an others look at it as a day to have fun with thier kids...If you sincerly feel holloween is sending the wrong message to kids then encourage the kids to stay home and you will buy them candy.It is pretty simple you are either apart of the solution or part of the problem and you have to first be honest with yourself and when you fell something is wrong and you try to convince yourself it is right you are not only cheating yourself ..you are cheating the kids