Much like the Halloween’s at Everyday Tips and Thoughts, my Halloween were simple but exciting!
My kids are lucky in that Trick-or-Treat is from 6:00pm to 8:00pm on Halloween day in my neighborhood. Most of the surrounding neighborhoods have it during daylight hours, and on a day that isn’t Halloween. Is it safer? Yes, but for a seasoned Halloween-er like myself, it doesn’t have the same feel. In many ways, I feel that my kids are lucky considering that Halloween in my neighborhood that Norman Rockwell Halloween feel of yesteryear.
Girl Witches
Then why didn’t my kids go trick-or-treating this year?
My son didn’t get a costume, and only at the last minute with friends, did he decide to go, but he didn’t even take a bag?!? So he’s going to come home with any candy. My daughter (who is only 7 years old), didn’t want to go either! She stayed home and passed out candy in her Halloween costume.
Confused? You bet I am! The group I use to go trick-or-treating with would run to each house to get the goodies! But not my kids… There has been times that I have taken my kids to get ice cream after a soccer game for a surprise treat but when we would get there, they would say that they don’t want anything!
Perhaps candy and ice cream has lost it magic with my kids because it’s readily available at home?
This saddens me to a degree, because I had such great times trick-or-treating with my friends as a kid. Don’t tell my mom, but we would even do a bit of tricking too (heh heh). My son would never dream of doing any tricks on any of the neighbors. Where I grew up, the houses weren’t so close together, perhaps it was a bit easier to do tricks when the houses aren’t so close together as they are in my current neighborhood…
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Happy Halloween!
MR
My kids came home with a mountain of candy and loved it. They are younger though (6 and 3) but generally we don’t buy a lot of candy at home aside from the obligatory candy corn during halloween and peeps at easter. Perhaps it’s still considered a treat, but I think my older son likes the idea of FREE candy. I’m always talking about the cost of stuff so to him, getting candy for free was like an amazing thing. Sometimes when he really wants candy and it’s not a holiday, I’ll make him use his own money to buy it. Sometimes he buys it, but other times he chooses to hoard his cash instead.
Sounds like it was still fun. I used to like giving out candy..plus you get to stay warmer that way.
It’s funny, but when my kids were younger (around 2 years old), we never gave them sweets. But no we’ve relaxed our stance on it so that they have something almost daily. Perhaps this isn’t the best approach. I might have to revive that practice.
We only had about 20 trick or treaters, but that is because we live on a cul-de-sac and my neighbors are losers and didn’t turn their lights on.
Did your kids say why they didn’t want to go out?
I totally agree about it not seeming as fun in daylight hours. Half the fun is running around in the dark (at least it was for me).
ahh, that sucks! I get made when our neighbors do that same. We get a ton of traffic though because the houses are so close.
My kids didn’t say why the didn’t want to go out. But they are getting more secretive all the time, so I wasn’t too surprised.
I agree about the dark, it’s so much more spooky and magical for a kid.
We’ll go trick or treat next year. It’s kind of sad that your kids are turning down candies and ice cream. I wonder why, it’s surprising.
Yeah, I’ve heard more than one ice cream server say that she/he has never seen a kid turn down ice cream. This set off a red flag in my head.
Maybe your kids are just growing up and not into it anymore. Or maybe it isn’t a treat for them like you said. Hard to know. What matters though is that they are happy. If they are, then don’t worry about it.
Good point! They do seem pretty happy overall, and like you said, that’s all that matters.
This is the first year we didn’t go trick or treating, and I must, admit, it was a bit of a treat. Candy has lost asome of its allure (except for chocolate).
(this is my first comment typed on an iPad. Not a piece of cake. )
IPad, I’m not too jealous just because of the keyboard and having to type with it. Still pretty cool!
I’m wondering who passed out candy at your house? In the past it was me, but this year is was my daughter and my wife.
I loved trick-or-treating when I was younger, so it surprises me that fewer kids were out this year. The weather was fine and the candy was plentiful, but it doesn’t seem to be the thing to do anymore, at least in my neighborhood.
Yep, same with holiday special on TV, abundance has stripped the novelty and appeal of candy and holiday specials on TV…