How old is too old for trick-or-treating?

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Tuffy said:
The adults are usually with the younger kids, as escorts. I doubt many would go trick or treating by themselves. :p
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this is a large percentage of the trick or treaters that i get at my house in los angeles the last few years. female adults in bad costumes begging for candy...alone. once in a while they will have a newborn with them....takes the fun away for me.
 
complex said:
this is a large percentage of the trick or treaters that i get at my house in los angeles the last few years. female adults in bad costumes begging for candy...alone. once in a while they will have a newborn with them....takes the fun away for me.
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Oops, I guess I was making a broad generalization. :blushing: I have never seen an adult out trick or treating by themselves though. I would probably give them candy anyway. I usually buy a lot of candy to give out, and am pretty generous with it. (I don't like getting stuck with leftovers!)

I might not like it if it was a steady stream of nothing but adults out collecting candy.
 
Just as an aside. I never let my kids have candy except at Halloween, but I taught them not to ask for it all the time though. (Just me and the way I raised my kiddos, not a comment on the way anyone else raised theirs!).

I did the same with fast food. I taught them to view it as a treat. That a burger and fries from a fast food joint or other items weren't really as nutritious as my home cooked meals but if you only have one about once a month or so, it's okay as long as you eat your veggies and fruits everyday.

I also made them brush their teeth couple times a day and esp. after eating sweets.

But that's just me :)
 
Tuffy said:
This is a great idea! I would rather my extra candy go to our troops than a dentist. :D

(no offense intended to any dentists reading here!) :D
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Actually, it's mostly dentists doing the collecting. I don't think the dentists are keeping it (except for a few of the Butterfingers! :angel:)
 
Kat said:
Just as an aside. I never let my kids have candy except at Halloween, but I taught them not to ask for it all the time though. (Just me and the way I raised my kiddos, not a comment on the way anyone else raised theirs!).

I did the same with fast food. I taught them to view it as a treat. That a burger and fries from a fast food joint or other items weren't really as nutritious as my home cooked meals but if you only have one about once a month or so, it's okay as long as you eat your veggies and fruits everyday.

I also made them brush their teeth couple times a day and esp. after eating sweets.

But that's just me :)
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Me too Kat! My kid actually doesn't care for candy much, except a Hersey Bar once in awhile and would he rather starve than eat fast food. We do have pizza about every two weeks but it's always eaten with a salad.
 
My friend's mom would make my friend give all her candy she got trick or treating to her so she could eat it herself. She was allowed to choose just 1-2 pieces of candy to keep. My friend was around 16 at the time and she just put up with it. It wasn't even about health reasons; it was about mom being in control. I think if my mom had that rule, I wouldn't bother going trick or treating. My parents are definitely not Dina Lohan, BFFs with their kids type, but they don't steal my halloween candy LOL.
 
Since Halloween is over I thought I would rap up this thread with a slice of reality. If you think that because candy is handed out and your children are dealing with strangers Halloween is a very dangerous time for children, while this is true, children are just as safe or even safer on Halloween as they are anytime of the year. If you think this is the only time to worry about your children being in harms way guess again, in 2008 and 2009 over 500 people got ill from eating peanut butter, not long ago several people got ill from eating lettuce. Hundreds of children under the age of 18 are reported missing yearly. If you're going to live in fear of something happening to your child or children, you know the worrying never stops. The newest craze cybervictims. Letting your children dress up not matter how old, is not a bad thing, to much candy for a week or so is not a bad thing, but Halloween violence and bad food doesn't stop on October 31st, it's there all year long. See statistics below.

http://www.ojjdp.gov/jjjournal/jjjournal598/net.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/13/health/main6478949.shtml


How many children are reported missing each year? The U.S. Department of Justice reports

  • 797,500 children (younger than 18) were reported missing in a one-year period of time studied resulting in an average of 2,185 children being reported missing each day.
  • 203,900 children were the victims of family abductions.
  • 58,200 children were the victims of non-family abductions.
  • 115 children were the victims of “stereotypical” kidnapping. (These crimes involve someone the child does not know or someone of slight acquaintance, who holds the child overnight, transports the child 50 miles or more, kills the child, demands ransom, or intends to keep the child permanently.)


http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=salmonella-poisoning-peanut-butter

This is dedicated to all the missing and exploited children,teens and adults.


http://new.music.yahoo.com/stereophonics/tracks/i-miss-you-now--2065938

[video=youtube;p69vXAkHty0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p69vXAkHty0[/video]
 
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