Do many parents still

My kids still trick or treat. My husband and I go with them, however. We have no problems because we live in a close knit neighborhood where everyone knows everyone, and we have been here our entire lives (the same neighborhood from the move 'Pecker') But we still have to inspect every piece of candy with a magnifying glass, because you can't trust anyone nowadays.

Have you seen this prick?

Do not attempt to apprehend this prick as it is armed and dangerous.

The amount has decreased but they still do come. altrough the electronic locks at the houses help a lot as they need to have a kid from the house to know the lock combination to even get to the door.

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still very popular where i live. i've run out of candy each year for the past several years, and that's despite the fact that i bought more candy each year than the previous year. i keep buying more and more, and i keep running out. (although i do give out the big bars, so maybe kids have been telling their friends....)

and on a side note, i certainly can't blame parents for being overprotective, but i think it's a shame that people are still afraid of laced halloween candy killing their kids. i've read several articles recently that have noted there has never been a single recorded fatality in this country due to laced candy. it's just an urban legend. but again, parents are only doing what they think is best, and i can't blame them.

"will someone tell that mime to shut up?"

Depends where you live, but plenty of kids still Trick or Treat and when it's dark out, like it should be.

The older kids go out alone( over 12) but anyone under that has parents with them.

We got a lot of kids this year, which was awesome.

Me and my husband or my sister go with my kids when they trick or treat. We don't let them take home made candy and always make them wait til we get home and can inspect it before they eat any.
What did you do, Ray?

I'm an old fart, grew up in the 70s. From what I remember parents were not very involved in trick or treating at all then. Some threw Halloween parties but that was either for adults or for pre-school aged kids too young to go out. We mostly made our own costumes and went out unsupervised. Back then we didn't really start until the sun started going down and we stayed out pretty late into the night. Usually we would go door to door until people stopped handing out candy and then would we would either go pranking or do some kind of scary dare like walk through a grave yard.
It has been said that my generation is stealing Halloween from children because we have such fond memories that we simply refuse to give up celebrating it. Today adults get into Halloween way more than when I was a kid. It was very rare to see someone decorate their house with more than a jack o'lantern back then. Today some people go all out creating home haunts that are the highlight of the night for many. But I worry that we are ruining the trick or treating experience for kids by trying to make it too safe. When my kids went the hours were designated earlier and earlier until it seemed that trick or treating ended just as it got dark. Not very scary going out with your parents in broad daylight. It would be really sad to lose trick or treating especially considering that if we do not allow the younger generations to enjoy Halloween as much as we did the holiday itself will decline in popularity.
Perhaps people are just too lazy nowadays to work that hard for candy. Kids today probably expect the grown ups to go door to door delivering the treats to them! j/k

It's sad. Around here it's still done properly but I hear about other areas doing it before nightfall or even on a different day because I guess it's inconvenient. Why even bother then.

Passion is just insanity in a cashmere sweater!

We still get plenty of kids. Some years more than others but we always have them.