Comments on: Six Tips for Keeping Your Kids Safe This Halloween http://celebritybabies.people.com/2009/10/30/six-tips-for-keeping-your-kids-safe-this-halloween/ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:52:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Moms & Babies - People.comhttp://img2.timeinc.net/people/static/i/v4home/peoplelogo.pnghttp://celebritybabies.people.com20485 By: MiB http://celebritybabies.people.com/2009/10/30/six-tips-for-keeping-your-kids-safe-this-halloween/#comment-112409 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:11:41 +0000 http://celebrity-babies.com/?p=71734#comment-112409 It’s kind of funny to see that people opposed to trick or treating are from and licing in countries where there is no tradition of trick or treating! I am one of those people as well, You wouldn’t get candy from me on Halloween because there is no tradition of trick or treating where I live, so I wouldn’t have any at home. But if You’d come to my door on the Thursday before easter dressed up as a witch handing me a easter greeting, You bet I’d give You candy!

]]> By: Amanda http://celebritybabies.people.com/2009/10/30/six-tips-for-keeping-your-kids-safe-this-halloween/#comment-112408 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:52:58 +0000 http://celebrity-babies.com/?p=71734#comment-112408 A lot of people in North Texas now go to churches for Trunk or Treat or Fall Festivals that occur on Halloween. People decorate their trunks, fill them up with candy, and the kids go from car to car to get their goods. A lot of these events are carnivals with games for the kids, and some of the larger churches even have rides. Ever since these events started up around here in the last 10-15 years, the amount of trick or treating has diminished until now most people I know only have 5-10 trick or treaters come to their door. If I celebrated Halloween, then I’d take my kids to one of these events as opposed to canvasing our neighborhood.

]]> By: Layla http://celebritybabies.people.com/2009/10/30/six-tips-for-keeping-your-kids-safe-this-halloween/#comment-112407 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:33:16 +0000 http://celebrity-babies.com/?p=71734#comment-112407 Grandma2Three, we may live in the same community…lol. I was driving through our downtown area early last night, and children were trick or treating at the stores of the local merchants. Our city police station is downtown, and there were 3 local lawmen/women out there handing out candy also. Our community has the same practice that if you don’t want to participate in trick or treating, just turn off the porch lights. I’ve never seen any adverse action (tricks) from that.

BTW, #6 is over the top…made me giggle.

]]> By: Meliss32 http://celebritybabies.people.com/2009/10/30/six-tips-for-keeping-your-kids-safe-this-halloween/#comment-112406 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:32:18 +0000 http://celebrity-babies.com/?p=71734#comment-112406 We don’t generally celebrate Halloween here in Australia although many more people are choosing to have parties and get into the spirit.
I do agree with Alex though on the trick-or-treating, here it just seems to invoke trouble. I have had a couple of occasions when my house and cars have been egged because I didn’t answer the door.
It seems like in the USA the holiday is celebrated in a safe, community-minded way which is good to see.
I certainly wouldn’t be letting my little one trick or treat by himself.

]]> By: Grandma2Three http://celebritybabies.people.com/2009/10/30/six-tips-for-keeping-your-kids-safe-this-halloween/#comment-112405 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:39:12 +0000 http://celebrity-babies.com/?p=71734#comment-112405 I can tell you I’ve never thrown an egg at Halloween (I’m 49 years old!) or had one thrown at any house I’ve ever lived in. We’re ex-military so we’ve lived in quite a few! In our town if you choose not to give out candy, you just turn off your porch or outdoor lights. People skip your house and move on to the next. My elderly next door neighbors don’t give out candy and have never had a problem. I remember back in the 60′s and 70′s my grandparents would come to our house or go to the movies on Halloween night. They couldn’t handle getting up and down repeatedly to answer the door. They didn’t fear damage to their house. I’ve never heard of throwing flour..although I did see it once in the old Judy Garland movie “Meet Me in St’ Louis”. We did toilet paper houses when we were kids but never at Halloween. That would have cut into trick or treating time! I’m not saying it doesn’t happen somewhere, but in my 49 years I’ve never seen it. Maybe I’ve been lucky.
Our police aren’t the only ones to give out candy. Most of the local merchants do too. My son-in-law lived in the country growing up. His family always went to trick or treat night at the mall. Children go from store to store for their treats.
Anyway, I hope everyone had a lovely Halloween no matter how you chose to celebrate it!

]]> By: Alex http://celebritybabies.people.com/2009/10/30/six-tips-for-keeping-your-kids-safe-this-halloween/#comment-112404 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:11:29 +0000 http://celebrity-babies.com/?p=71734#comment-112404 Jeez, I’m surprised Grandma2Three. The police join in?! Strange! I’m not defensive either, I’m realistic. If parents supervise correctly and take their kids only to houses they know, that’s something a bit different, but the essence of this tradition is still not particularly positive to me. The police don’t tell you not to go out, they discourage the practice of knocking on stranger’s doors, asking for things, and the insinuation that you’ll do something mean if you don’t get something for it. Halloween has been adopted in the States and treated as a holiday, and it sounds like it may be more structured than here. But here in the UK, it’s not unusual for kids to throw eggs and flour at people’s houses if they don’t answer the doors. I’m fairly certain that happens in America as well. It seems like, unfortunately, kids lose their heads with it all. Halloween: Yes. Trick or treating: No. Like I said, it’s nothing against the day itself, I just find that trick or treating has more bad than good about it.

]]> By: Grandma2Three http://celebritybabies.people.com/2009/10/30/six-tips-for-keeping-your-kids-safe-this-halloween/#comment-112403 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:45:42 +0000 http://celebrity-babies.com/?p=71734#comment-112403 Alex, I don’t understand why you’re so defensive. Nobody is asking you to participate in our countries traditions. You celebrate differently from us, that’s okay! Trick or treating has been a tradition here for generations. Where I live it’s a wonderful community event. It brings everyone together. My grandchildren are met by smiling neighbors, not questionable strangers lurking behind mysterious doors. Honestly, I think you have a distorted view of what it’s like here on Halloween.
You’ve mentioned a few times that your view is shared by the police forces in your country. I agree if your police force is telling you not to go out, you shouldn’t. It’s very different here. Our local force participates in our festivities! They even give out candy! I’m thankful Halloween here is still a happy community event and not something to be feared.
Oh and we have parties too!
I’m going as Mama from “Mama’s Family”

]]> By: Alex http://celebritybabies.people.com/2009/10/30/six-tips-for-keeping-your-kids-safe-this-halloween/#comment-112402 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:55:18 +0000 http://celebrity-babies.com/?p=71734#comment-112402 Wow. Never thought I’d see so many parents disagreeing with the ‘don’t talk to strangers’ rule. Genuinely shocked by that. I don’t know very much about how trick or treating is handled in America, but for the small few who do it here, there doesn’t seem to be supervision by adults most of the time, and they do approach strangers. I have kids I don’t know coming to my door every year. And since my opinion is shared by the police forces in this country, I think it’s certainly a very fair one. The way it is normally handled in this country, it really does go against many safety lessons I have taught my children and I’m not willing to go against that in the name of a small tradition.

Teaching kids not to talk to strangers is an excellent lesson and despite the comments here, is not one I will ever cease to teach. I do not want my children approaching people they do not know and I would be shocked if any person here really wanted anything different. As adults, as we all know, this is different, and it is certainly not a fair comparison to equate children with adults in this instance.

I see that most people here say they are willing to supervise their children correctly and will not allow them to go to homes they do not know the residents of, which is a little different, but I hold fast in this opinion. And that doesn’t make me paranoid either, it makes me sensible. And I would hope that anyone who DOES go trick or treating would also be sensible in their approach to it. Like I said, I’m not against celebrating Halloween, we have parties and wear costumes (I’m Tinkerbell this year, in case anyone is wondering), but this is one tradition we can do without.

]]> By: JM http://celebritybabies.people.com/2009/10/30/six-tips-for-keeping-your-kids-safe-this-halloween/#comment-112401 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:49:50 +0000 http://celebrity-babies.com/?p=71734#comment-112401 yeah completely agree. the whole “don’t talk to strangers” issue on halloween is completely ridiculous. if your kids are little go with them, for the older ones have clear guidelines. and these guidelines are silly, just have fun, enjoy yourself and rely on your own common sense. you don’t need other parents or media hysteria to tell you about dangers, give you yourself more credit as a parent and give your kids more credit to know right from wrong. if you are open with them, communicate properly and explain things in a way they understand then there is no reason not to have fun on halloween.

]]> By: Kiko http://celebritybabies.people.com/2009/10/30/six-tips-for-keeping-your-kids-safe-this-halloween/#comment-112400 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:01:42 +0000 http://celebrity-babies.com/?p=71734#comment-112400 #6 is just way to intense for me. Stay home and give out candy cause #6 just ruins the night!

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