[RippleFire]

For older kids, trick or treating for UNICEF was the only way to go. Today, kids can't wait to slough off childhood when it comes to music, clothing and sexuality but seem to trick-or-treat well into their college years. Baby boomer kids would have been humiliated to be found trick-or-treating in their teens. Collecting hundreds of dollars for UNICEF, teenagers felt grown-up and useful. Trading in your candy bag for a UNICEF box was a rite of passage.

I must have lead a sheltered childhood.

[kittymyrib]

Thank goodness the panhandling for the UN has gone out of favor on Halloween. Our grandsons who are 10, 8, and 4 have never had much interest in trick-or-treating. They'd rather stay at home and hand out the candy. What is very strange is to see the devotion that adults have to Halloween...obviously arrested development that is difficult to explain.