Halloween, Americas real family night
I learned years ago, when our company mistakenly scheduled an evening session of a seminar for Halloween Night, just how involved both mommy and daddy are with their children on Halloween. The reaction by our seminar attendees was instant: like in "I'm not coming, give me my money back, you guys (the organizers) must be brain dead." I know I'd never fail to be home on Halloween, not because of all the costumes, but because we supervise our kids and are careful whom they "trick or treat." Then when they get home and before allowing them to pig out we go through every candy to be sure it's safe. No matter who we are, Halloween serves as a message to our kids that we love them and really care about them without any lecture. I've heard many commentators blasting Halloween and it's gimme gimme gimme "trick or treat" ritual as somehow teaching them socialism (Hannity. What an asshole.). Get a life, it's just a game we all play and in this case it's a much better game than most. It teaches our kids how we really feel about them.
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Another important function it serves is introducing everyone in the neighborhood to each other. I lived in a lower to mid-middle class neighborhood from youth to college, where people lived while on their way up and down the economic ladder. Neighbors seemed to change every 3-6 years or so.
Then one day people got concerned when people of shall we say, darker complexions started moving in, and those of lighter complexions got scared and canceled Trick or treating. (Held a lame block party instead, horribly dull, and didn't last very long)
It was a Huge mistake. Just Isolated everyone from each other. Trick or treating quietly came back thankfully, and new people were introduced to each other again.
One of America's few social traditions. no true conservative should be against it.
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