Teenagers shouldn’t be trick or treating at all. My rule here is that the kid must be shorter than my front gate. But it doesn’t matter anymore, as I haven’t seen trick or treaters in my neighborhood for 5+ years. I thought we’d get some this year, since we’ve had a few families move in with young kids, but no dice. At 7 I turned off the light and put the candy in the freezer. It probably has to do with those child molester flyers we get in the mailbox at least once a month, and 9 out of 10 of them are Hispanic. (Explain this to me...a nearby apartment complex lets these pedos move in there. There are two elementary schools within 4 blocks each way, and a bus stop right across the street from where they live.)
I trick or treated until I was about 14; the teens who came last night with parents were about that age.
I had a few kids around 4 to 7 years old had parents with them..appropriate at that age, IMHO.
Yeah, terrible about the child molesters being released into neighborhoods with kids. They’re never released in the judge’s neighborhood, are they?
My youngest wasn’t allowed on kiddie rides by the time he was 5, because he was too tall.
It hurt to be left out through no fault of his own.
I’m glad none of the neighbors denied him candy on Halloween.
I’d rather err on the side of mercy, and I’d rather have big kids acting like kids than out drinking or causing mischief.
It’s just candy.