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Originally Posted by K Dubious

What is funny is all I remember hearing last year that if a child has a blue pumpkin basket it means that they have food allergies and you should give them something different than traditional candy, like a toy or money! Now I can understand that having a food allergy is out of their control, but to ask the rest of society to cater to it is a bit crazy to me, that is the parents job in my opinion.

The world is so afraid of everything that it is making "traditional" things no longer normal. You should never take candy from a stanger...unless you are in costume and then it is ok to knock on the strangers door and ask for it. I also heard a smiliar argument about Christmas, the jest was that we teach our kids that we shouldn't talk or touch strangers, but we put our kid on the lap of fat, hairy men in red and that is ok. The person making the point said, it is an infomercial for perverts, just dress up like Santa and the kid won't view you as a stranger.

I have no kids so who knows how I will feel when I get there, but I want my kids to have a similar upbringing to myself, which includes Trick-or-Treating (I even went out my senior year wearing no shirt and Shrek ears, the chest hair really helped the costume, lol) and asking Santa for my christmas list. Let the kids be kids!

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Originally Posted by kylactus

It just feels like the whole countries' pissed, no one trusts there neighbors, malls and churches hand out candy, and no one's walking around anymore, hell, half the houses in my area won't have there lights on, it seems like everyone who still does yard displays make them more "fall" themed than Halloween. Humanity peeked in the 90's it's been straight down hill since.

I agree with both of these statements. I had a blast with Halloween and Christmas when I was little and if the impossible happens and I ever have kids I plan on trying to give them the same upbringing I had.