"beeswing" wrote:

My daughter will be 12 in December and is in 6th grade, which in her
school is the second year of middle school. I let her trick-or-treat
last year but feel like this year she has crossed into the "too old"
zone. She's accused me of trying to take away her childhood (!), so I
thought I'd raise the question here.

If she's old enough to think of that, then she's probably too old to
go. If one of my kids said something like that it would be instantly
evident to me that they were too old to go.


But actually trick or treat wasn't that big a deal for us.

What do parents here think? How old is too old to trick-or-treat? When
I was growing up, 6th grade was my last year, but junior high started
in 7th. Am I being reasonable stopping her at this age, do I give her
one last year, or do folks here think trick or treating should continue
into the teens?

My older kids went out with their little brother and sister sometimes.
I don't remember how long, actually. I know my dd#3 went trick or
treating on her pony (so she would have had to be at least 10 or 11
because that's when she got the pony) as the Headless Horseman. But
we only went in the neighborhood where people knew us. Her brother
was 3 years younger, and her older sisters were 5 and 7 years older..

(And she stayed in the street with the pony while someone else got
her treats for her IIRC - she didn't ride across the lawns or the golf
course). The pony had a reflective thing on his tail, and her 'head'
had a flashlight in it (a pumpkin), and I followed in the car..