Dawn wrote:
beeswing wrote:
My daughter will be 12 in December and is in 6th grade
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What do parents here think? How old is too old to trick-or-treat?

I think it's too old when the kid doesn't want to go anymore.

I'm not sure I'm willing to take it quite that far. I mean, I think
it's a good marker, but not the only marker. I still believe that teens
don't need to be trick-or-treating...that it's mostly for the younger
set. But my daughter isn't a teen yet, and I wouldn't have even
considered cutting off trick-or-treating this year if she wasn't
already in her second year of middle school. (I know. Arbitrary.)

For
Henry, that was 12 -- but I wouldn't fight him if he still wanted to go
(or if he wanted to go with friends this year). I suspect he stopped
because he got tall early and felt uncomfortable -- he turns 14 today
and is 6'3"

What a tall boy! My daughter is tall for a girl age, but that's still
"only" a little over 5 ft 4 in. She looks at least 14, though, and
maybe even older if you look fast.

I'd require him to dress up -- I can't handle the 16 year olds in jeans
and a t-shirt with a Wal-mart plastic sack... but I do still give them
candy on the theory that there is a lot worse those kids could be doing
on Halloween night.

We don't get trick-or-treaters down our street...it's a dead end. So
I'm out of the loop as far as what other kids do.

Come to think of it, why not think of it that way? Wouldn't you
*prefer* she still wanted to trick-or-treat as opposed to the other
things teens do on Halloween?

Probably. On the other hand, she's shown no interest in the "other
things teens do on Halloween" so it's not (yet) an issue.

FWIW, in our part of the country, which is just a few miles north of
the border with Mexico, the Halloween season is a multi-generational
celebration and we actually get a fair number of adults at our door
each year (in great costumes). The Mexican "Day Of The Dead" (Dia de
los Muerta) celebrations are pretty cool. But then, I *love* Halloween
and decorate almost as much for it as I do for Christmas.

That is kinda kewl. Can see how that would happen near Mexico.

-Dawn
Mom to Henry, 14 today!!!!

Happy belated birthday to Henry! My, do the years fly....

beeswing