Halloween..who is at your door?

[SydneyK]

Originally Posted by AGDee

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.

I would be more supportive of it if I felt like it were an embracing of childhood like you're saying. Unfortunately, my experience is that the high schoolers who do it here are throwing a 'costume' together (I'm sorry, but sticking a pacifier in your mouth doesn't make a baby costume) and asking for free candy.

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.