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The difference is trick or treating is an expected activity for little kids and not for teens. My point is that parents shouldn't be getting all miffed over it since teens have many other activities to go too geared to them.
And MY point is that all kids have many activities geared towards them and it should be up to them to decide how they want to spend their time.
And MY point is that all kids have many activities geared towards them and it should be up to them to decide how they want to spend their time.
A teen is not a kid they are a young adult and young adults should be doing young adult things. Dressing up and going door to door for candy is for little ones and not teens imo.
Read how much i spend on candy about 5 posts above. Teens have plenty of fun stuff geared just for them, but the actual act of trick or treating is for the little ones.
So buy a bag of Jolly Ranchers or something like that for the teens; give them each a couple of pieces.
I'm really amazed you have kids starting out at 3 PM. Most kids aren't even home from school by then, nor adults home from work.
Sometimes there are parties (if a parent is willing to host one), haunted houses (at least around here) are expensive (around $20 - which is a lot for most teens) and until they are driving they may not have a way to get there. To assume there is always some kinds of activities available for teens is incorrect. Especially those that are "too old" to be trick or treating but perhaps not old enough for some other things....12-15 yo is a very inbetween age and on one hand we have people telling them to "grow up" while on the other we have people complaining that "kids today grow up too fast"....they are caught between a rock and a hard place.
Most of the times parents will drive their kids to things...and if not carpooling does go on a lot. And yes your haunted house is fairly pricey as the one we have is 7 dollars and the haunted trail is free.
So buy a bag of Jolly Ranchers or something like that for the teens; give them each a couple of pieces.
I'm really amazed you have kids starting out at 3 PM. Most kids aren't even home from school by then, nor adults home from work.
Mostly its the very little ones such as toddlers and their parents who don't want them to have to deal with the general bustle of large groups of kids is all.
A teen is not a kid they are a young adult and young adults should be doing young adult things. Dressing up and going door to door for candy is for little ones and not teens imo.
A 13/14 yo is now a "young adult"?
Your kids are young yet so maybe you just don't know how young that really still is.
Your kids are young yet so maybe you just don't know how young that really still is.
Yeah generally an 11 year old is refereed to as a young adult, so certainly 13/14 is one. I come from European parents so maybe i am biased, because people in America seem to have no conception how much as a nation we coddle and baby compared to the rest of the world. And given my experiences working with them at the restaurant and the increasing amounts of boomerang kids, and kids being less and less prepared for college i don't think thats a good thing. And yes my kids are young but i even treat them as young adults, and find it works better on all levels.
Yeah generally an 11 year old is refereed to as a young adult, so certainly 13/14 is one. I come from European parents so maybe i am biased, because people in America seem to have no conception how much as a nation we coddle and baby compared to the rest of the world. And given my experiences working with them at the restaurant and the increasing amounts of boomerang kids, and kids being less and less prepared for college i don't think thats a good thing. And yes my kids are young but i even treat them as young adults, and find it works better on all levels.
So I'm guessing then that your own young adults won't be trick or treating either?
A teen is not a kid they are a young adult and young adults should be doing young adult things. Dressing up and going door to door for candy is for little ones and not teens imo.
Please tell me this is a joke. 13 year old kids are NOT young adults, they are CHILDREN.
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