How old before kids can trick or treat without adults?

[hlsess]

Mine are older now and don't trick or treat but i think I let mine go with friends when they were around 9- they had certain streets they had to stay on and had a walkie talkie- and would check in- I think you need to let them go when you feel it is safe- every family has different views on everything - I do believe you need to let them go at some point- they will be gone before you know it and if you keep such tight reins on them they will not know what to do in the real world.

[no kudzu]

I think any kid old enough to wear a bra or shave is too old to be trick or treating and I tell them so when a bunch of teenagers go around with pillowcases and demand candy. I save last year left overs for them.
When our kids were younger we walked with them and then when they got home we let them pick out 5 pices of special candy to keep and the rest went into the garbage (or the bag for the teenagers). I'm not a fan of trick or treating.

[ChessieMom]

Originally Posted by KH02

Yeah i'd say maybe 16. But by that time should they really be trick or treating???

12 years is the limit here.

[thepinksquid]

IMHO when kids get to the age when they could trick or treat alone, it might be the time when they should perhaps go to Halloween parties/organized events instead. If you ask me, trick or treating should be primarily left for the little ones.

I don't have kids, and I know that if I did I wouldn't let a kid under the age of, say, 14 out on their own, unless they're with a BIG group of reliable friends. There's tons of kids out on Halloween, and unfortunately the pedos and weirdos of the world know this...no matter how "safe" your 'hood might be.