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Halloween..who is at your door?
Copied from my niece's FB page (she copied from a friend):
Tomorrow night, a lot of creatures will visit your door. Be open minded. The child who is grabbing more than one piece of candy might have poor fine motor skills. The child who takes forever to pick out one piece of candy might have motor planning issues. The child who does not say "trick or treat" or "thank you" might be painfully shy, non-verbal, or selectively mute. If you cannot understand their words, they may struggle with developmental apraxia of speech. They are thankful in their hearts and minds. The child who looks disappointed when he sees your bowl might have a life-threatening allergy. The child who isn't wearing a costume at all might have a sensory processing disorder or autism. Be kind, be patient, smile, pretend you understand. It's everyone's Halloween. Make a parent feel good by making a big deal of their special child. |
This made me smile :).
We had Trick or Treating in Greek Town tonight and they were all so adorable! |
This is awesome. *like* :)
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I love this! I posted it on my facebook too.
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I love this. I have not handed out candy in my neighborhood for a few years now. I love the neighborhood kids and they're great. I love seeing the little ones all dressed up! However, in our town teenagers (15 years old +) think they need to go trick or treating, too. If you can drive yourself to the house, you are too old to be participating! Also, I am tired of seeing carloads of people coming to our neighborhood because it's a nicer one. I am talking a couple hundred people here, not 5 or 6 cars. Some of the neighborhoods in our area are having neighborhood trick or treat nights/parties on a different night where just the neighborhood kids and their relatives or close friends attend. I wish we did that.
I am not totally a grinch. :-) I bought my students vampire teeth, temporary tattoos, and candy for tomorrow. |
I love seeing the little ones dressed up, but I'm totally fine with high schoolers dressing up and trick and treating. I think we make kids grow up too fast and I think it's totally cool when they embrace being a kid. We also have car loads of kids who come to our subdivision from the "moderate" income housing apartments nearby. I'm cool with that. Trick or treating in an apartment complex takes something out of the experience. I bought enough candy for about 200 this year because I ran out last year.
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When I was in high school, there was a fairly large group of us - maybe 10 or so girls - who dressed up every year in some kind of theme and went door to door. We didn't ask for candy, though. We sang to the people instead (think Christmas caroling). We got candy from a few people, and that was nice, but the fun of it was getting dressed up with friends and putting on a show. |
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AGDLynn, thanks for sharing the FB post. I think it's spot-on. |
Son is 15 and a high school freshman. He is also 6'5". He has always loved Halloween, both the candy part and the costume part. I remember last year as he worked on his costume (he has a penchant for choosing costumes from video games, graphic novels or other sources that the average person would never catch on to), he lamented that it would probably be his last year for trick-or-treating. Even if he wasn't technically too old, he reasoned, he would look too old because of his height.
This year he never questioned that he is too old. Even when my wife told him it would be okay, that other high schoolers in the neighborhood would trick-or-treat and that people in the neighborhood know him so they wouldn't think it odd to see him or be mislead by his height, he said "Nope. I'm too old." I hope I can at least get him to hand out candy tonight. Quote:
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I remember a friend in high school begging me to go trick or treating with her when we were in the 10th grade, and I begged off. Much like believing in Santa, you age out of Halloween.
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We used to live in a historical district and had zero trick-or-treaters. Now we live in a little nicer subdivision. We have more like 500 to 1,000 trick-or-treaters. I don't even know if some of the kids are neighbors because I never see them out - it's a drive-in-your-garage-and-close-the-door sort of place.
We have a blast giving out candy. I've got 10 HUGE bags this year and I don't think it's going to be enough. It's really cold, though, so I'm thinking a lot of the smaller kids won't come out. I don't mind teen-agers who dress up - they usually wear pretty clever costumes and are polite. It's the ones who don't say a word and just pull out the bottom of their sweatshirt to receive their candy...then show back up in 20 minutes for another hit. For them, I need the remote-controlled trapdoor in the sidewalk.:p |
I live in an apartment and I've never seen any kids trick or treating at any of the complexes near me. My first year in this apartment, I bought quite a bit of candy, and nobody came by.
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I place a "Trick-or-Treaters This Way" arrow near the elevator doors pointing toward our apartment so they find us. A tiny pumpkin outside our door helps, too. It doesn't hurt that our treats are small, holiday-decorated envelopes containing a new quarter; word gets around fast to each building and we get lots of kids each year. |
Our trick or treat got postponed until Friday. Too wet and too cold, stupid bitch Sandy.
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Wasn't he just 10 like yesterday? |
The neighbor's grandkid. We get 1 or 2 trick or treaters every year. Yet my husband always insists on buying the big ass bag of candy bars.
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My son was on the fence this year. He felt like he was too old to go out. He was going to help me pass out candy. He had me find the CD of Halloween music and put it in. He put his werewolf costume on. He was very restless. I said "Why don't you just go?" He called his buddy, who was taking his little sister around (she's 6 or 7, the boys are 16). He went and met up with them and trick or treated for a little bit. I'm glad. It already felt weird without his sister around to carve the pumpkin... that was usually her thing.
We had about 100 kids, a little down from last year, but it was pretty chilly and damp. The rain did stop though. |
I was thrilled that we got a record high 9 trick-or-treaters this year! I knew only 4 of them, so things are looking up for future Halloweens!!!
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We haven't had any trick-or-treaters in several years .. no change this year.
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I seriously overbought candy again this year.... now what to do with it all? I am NOT eating it, especially the non-chocolate stuff :p The mini Milky Way caramels are not going anywhere, though!
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When my son was small, we actually practiced trick or treating well in advance of Halloween. We so appreciated the houses that were patient with him, and especially those people who extended kindness in recognition of his efforts as an achievement. Thanks to all of you who do take an extra moment to be kind and withhold judgement -- this understanding makes it possible for a child to be included in and learn from his community. My son is now in high school, and declared last year that he was "too old" to trick or treat. I really miss having my own little ones all dressed up -- but I enjoy the kids who do come knocking. And the older kids -- who arrive in groups dressed as a theme -- get extra candy for effort. Had a Wizard of Oz group this year. :) . |
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My fun for the day was watching three 17 year old boys try to put temporary tattoos on each other. The girls finally had mercy on them and took over the tattooing operation. Glad I picked those up. Not sure how amused the basketball coach was with the skulls and crossbones tattoos:... :p
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I expected to have a low turnout, but since the kids are out of school all this week, they got started early! My first trick-or-treaters came at 3 PM. I wasn't ready for them them! :eek: I had a steady trickle of kiddos until about 8:30-9 PM or so.
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