From the article: Should Kids Trick-or-Treat on Halloween Alone?
Going out on Halloween alone, or even with friends, is a big responsibility. Here, readers share their personal stories in an effort to help other moms and dads make decide when to let their kids trick-or-treat alone on Halloween. Share Your Story
Halloween
- I am 12, and I'm going alone.... I'm just saying it's not that dangerous at all--that is, if you are in a decent neighborhood.
- —Guest Will
Trick-or-Treating
- I never did let my kids go trick or treating alone. I was always afraid they might go missing! Halloween started changing when I was a young girl in the 1970's. First, it was bag snatching, then egg-throwing. It has gotten more dangerous as time goes by. It's so sad!
- —Guest Vernell
Trick or treating alone
- Well, when my now young adult daughter was 12, she lost interest and quit going altogether. Her younger sister wanted to go alone with a group of friends at 12, and I allowed her to do it. We live in a nice neighborhood in a small town several miles from the city. She went alone at 12 and 13. She had rules: stay with the group, keep track of everyone in the group, don't go beyond a certain street, don't talk to anyone who approaches from a car or the street, don't go into anyone's house, keep your cell phone on so I can call periodically to check on you, and be in by 9:00 p.m.
- —Guest reader
My Kids Are Not Going Alone!
- After listening to the local sheriff give a talk to our PTA about the dangers of 'rat-pack' trick or treating, I am NEVER letting my daughter go without adult supervision. My fear is that when there's a group of kids, it is easy for them to lose track of their friends -- one goes missing, and they 'assume' the friend has caught up with some other friend -- meanwhile that kid has been lured into some pedophile's house, and no one knows at which house they last saw the kid.
- —Guest SLB
They never did
- I have a 14 year old and a 10 year old. We live in the city and the neighborhood is ok, but by the time my oldest was old enough that I would feel comfortable letting him go out alone... he was too old to do the trick or treat thing! I'm just saying...
- —Guest SOLOdotMOM
