Heather dear....get a grip and by the way:
Happy Halloween!!!
Well, I guess this means we all grew up scarred. You would think we would have noticed before now.
..every year the study this,it's scary they spend the money.
Doogle
BOO!
Parents, it is pretty easy to work this out. You know your own child. Keep with cute costumes and candy for the little ones, steering them past any scary displays. You can also have a tremulous tot stay home with one parent and hand out candy, or even go to bed early. Once the kids start WANTING to be scared (this WILL BE OBVIOUS), and dress up scary, they will let you know. Oy vey.
Keep 'em home and let 'em watch Robot Cop.
-PJ
There was that one homeowner who played her part just a tad too well - spooky candles and strange music in the entryway - but how could anyone be so stuck-up as to psychoanalyze Halloween?!
It's *meant* to be scary.
I think what scares most children is sick videos and photos that are shown now with total abandon on NETWORK NEWS. As an adult, I'm much more offended now by tv news than ever before.
Halloween is nothing in comparison.
April 15!
These kids need to be told to "Man up, Nancy!"
I'm still cleaning my pants from last year's scary
experience.
Always someone trying to find a way to explain why our children are so 'scarred'....its like the others on this thread are saying, just use common sense...if your child is really afraid of some sights or costumes, just steer them past those houses, and go to other more 'friendly' looking homes...dress the little ones in cutesy costumes...or if it is all just too much for some little ones, just stay home...its all common sense...
Heck, if all this hype were true, my younger boy should be scarred for life...the first time he had to sit on Santas lap at Christmastime, when he was 1 1/2yrs old, he cried and screamed the whole time...I guess that big fat man dressed all in red, scared him...the pic I have of him with Santa, shows a crying upset little boy...
Then there was the time a new McDonalds opened near my moms house, and Ronald McDonald was going to make an appearance...so my mom and dad took my two boys to meet Ronald Mcdonald(I was at work at the time)...dad took pics of again, my younger boy, at around age 2...the pic shows my mom holding my terrified 2 yr old, and trying to hand him over for Ronald Mcdonald to hold him...my son is holding onto his grammie for dear life, and the look of terror in his eyes, tells me he greatly feared the big clown, Ronald Mcdonald...
Children have real life problems to worry about....I just dont see Halloween, with its costumes and decorations, as being one of those problems...let your child be your guide...if hes scared, ,stay home...otherwise, enjoy the Halloween nites activities...
We set up speakers hidden in the shrubbery, and had "monster movie" sounds and music playing through them; we also built a "cave" leading to the house entrance with the usual scary critters, spiders, webs, lizards, bats hanging from the ceilings, and a witch sitting near the front door who was a real person in makeup... Long story short: the number of kids visiting plummeted from an average of around 80-100 to 6.
The smaller kids would actually cross the street rather than approach the house. Too much of a good thing.
This helps explain Barney Franks.
Heather Whipps is a "travel reporter"