Do you let your children trick or treat?

Well, I am still going trick or treating as a teenager. I'm going as the Joker from the new Batman movie! I'm kind of childish, but I'm not incapable. It really depends on the place you live. Sometimes you just have to let go, though, if you're too overprotective like my mom, you children might end up being unsure of themselves and unsure how to make decisions and be an adult when the time comes. She really babies my oldest brother, who got out of college because their was too much stress, doesn't drive and he's 19, and basically is really dependent on her, I have to say. I'm more independent, but I don't want to be like he is, I want to get out of here as soon as I can. My brothers were not allowed to go trick or treating alone until long after they had any interest in doing that!

I do take my kids treat or treating. I Go with family and some friends that have children do go with and we go as a group jsut because we keep an eye on the children and its better to go with a group than alone. My kids will doutfully ever go with jsut friends i dont trust it to let me children run around in the dark. Just cant risk something to happen i guess you can say.

We all go over to my aunts house because the block has a party. Last year my son went trick-or-treating with different family members 3 times LOL He is 9 but still really attached to our family. We live in an apartment complex, so no real trick-or-treating here. All of the kids will attend the Halloween party the complex throws the night before.

No, I do not let either of my children go out trick or treating. As we live out in a rural area the only next door neighbor we have is our landlord, which means we would have to drive several miles just to get to a neighborhood that has houses close in proximity of one another. Plus with my oldest son being autistic he wouldn't understand the concept of trick or treating. And with my youngest having a sensitive tummy he wouldn't be able to eat most of the treats that are passed out anyway.

My daughter is autistic, so I have to go with her. But in the past years I've always taken her trick or treating, as there has been neighborhoods near us where everyone did it, and it was very much like the old fashioned way it was when I was a kid in the 60s. Now we have moved to a small town in NC, and I am wondering if we will find a suitable place for trick or treating. She really enjoys it and it is hard to find things that she can fully participate in. There are lots of kids in the neighborhood here, but I don't know yet if anyone does the trick or treating. As far as your daughter going alone, I don't know if I'd ever feel OK about that. My daughter is 9, and I'm trying to imagine if she were a more typical child, but all I can think of is the older kids are sometimes the ones that cause trouble on Halloween, not to mention the criminal adults. So I think maybe you should at least stay at the end of the street, for every street she goes on. OR, if they have a community party in your area, let her go there alone, but take her and pick her up. Altho I know most of the time Halloween goes by mildly, I have heard too many news stories and rumors. I don't let my pets in the yard, or my child out of my sight, just to be safe. Most shelters won't adopt out black cats for a week before or so, also.

yes i take my kids well my hubby and i do we make sure we go to places we know and being the kids are only 2&3 we dont do alot i agre unless there is an adult 10 is too young to go alone things are just to dangerous now

I have a 14 year old daughter. Every year, we go with my sister and her kids. Last year, my daughter got to go alone with her friends, only in our neighborhood and had her cell phone. One of the boys they were with was starting to act like a fool so she called me, told me and started heading home. I am just amazed at how trustworthy she is! This year, she hasn't decided. She is kind of in the age that she is a little too old now so we will probably look for a party for her to go to.

We live in a small town and outside of this town are lots of farms too. the town itself has a small halloween parade where the kids just walk down the street in their costumes to the firehall and the people at the firehall hand out a bag of treats. Then everyone just spreads out and goes trick or treating. they do it during the day time so that it is safer. we go with out kids, but the oldest is only 6 so that makes sense. if it were the day time trick or treating and my kid was really responsible then i would say around 10 or 12 maybe. but i think it is really safe here. we also take them to the town 3 miles away where my parents live to go trick or treating at night. i grew up there, it is really small and safe but i think that i would probably not want my oldest to go alone till maybe 12 or 13.

I meet with my up with my sisters and there children also. I think its more fun that way for the kids to have someone too go with unstead of just there mom. Then I can hang out with my sisters for little since I don't get to see them all that much. I don't know when I would be willing to let my children to go trick or treating by themselves. I still have a few years before I have to worry about my kids asking me that.

To be honest I don't think a child is ever old enough to be sent out at night without a parent trick or treating. The rule in our household was once you became around 14 or so you were too old for trick or treating. You could participate by handing out the candy or entertaining the children who came to our door. And if under age 14 or so a parent had to at least be within eye sight. The world these days is a scary place. Even teens can be abducted and never heard from again, so its best to be cautious.

I don't have children, but my parents would never let me go trick or treating, as they say that it is nothing more than begging for sweets. I know that if you think about it, that's what it is, but it's not like it would just be us! The rest of the country are all doing it, so I don't see why we shouldn't be allowed to do it as well! Anyway I'm an adult myself now, so I'm far too old to do a thing like trick or treating, until I have a child who I can take.

I do let my daughter go trick or treating. However, because she is still young, I always go with her. In the city we live in, it isn't safe to go alone. I have even told her that once she hits high school age, she can go with friends. I've learned that it's much more safe in number than by yourself. I will not allow her to go by herself until she is old enough to know the difference between a stranger and a friend.

We only let our son go trick or treating at my husbands work. There are so many options now. The mall is such a warm safe place for trick-or-treating and the local churches do trunk-or-treats.