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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 91550" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>We tend to avoid Halloween here. What you all describe is very different. Here we get a very few LITTLE kids traipsing door to door with some semblance of costume although a lot of them have really only thrown a sheet over themselves or tied a teatowel on their heads. Maybe five or ten kids over the whole night, one or two groups. That's all. Occasionally a parent in the background supervising, but usually not. A worry.</p><p></p><p>The big problems are the gangs of older kids roaming the streets and throwing eggs. Mostly teens and some young adults. Under cover of "Halloween fun" they get up to real trouble, vandalising property, throwing eggs at some houses (like ours - anywhere that a weird person lives) and sometimes bashing people. The police hate Halloween here. And it's Wednesday night this year? So we won't have difficult child 1 dressed as a ninja and hiding up our tree in the dark - he did this to protect our placed from the gangs one year, he hid up the tree and made weird noises to scare them off and they just couldn't find him, not even with a torch.</p><p></p><p>But this year he will be at Bible study, that's on Wednesdays. I might take difficult child 3 to a Halloween party we've been invited to - it will get us out of the house, at least. </p><p></p><p>We can clean up the eggs the next morning.</p><p></p><p>Enjoy your time, the candy divvy-up sounds fun. I do think the sling is a help - plus, she can hide extra candy in these, especially if she prepares ahead.</p><p></p><p>Do you guys do this on more than one night? At least we're spared that - just the one night for us.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 91550, member: 1991"] We tend to avoid Halloween here. What you all describe is very different. Here we get a very few LITTLE kids traipsing door to door with some semblance of costume although a lot of them have really only thrown a sheet over themselves or tied a teatowel on their heads. Maybe five or ten kids over the whole night, one or two groups. That's all. Occasionally a parent in the background supervising, but usually not. A worry. The big problems are the gangs of older kids roaming the streets and throwing eggs. Mostly teens and some young adults. Under cover of "Halloween fun" they get up to real trouble, vandalising property, throwing eggs at some houses (like ours - anywhere that a weird person lives) and sometimes bashing people. The police hate Halloween here. And it's Wednesday night this year? So we won't have difficult child 1 dressed as a ninja and hiding up our tree in the dark - he did this to protect our placed from the gangs one year, he hid up the tree and made weird noises to scare them off and they just couldn't find him, not even with a torch. But this year he will be at Bible study, that's on Wednesdays. I might take difficult child 3 to a Halloween party we've been invited to - it will get us out of the house, at least. We can clean up the eggs the next morning. Enjoy your time, the candy divvy-up sounds fun. I do think the sling is a help - plus, she can hide extra candy in these, especially if she prepares ahead. Do you guys do this on more than one night? At least we're spared that - just the one night for us. Marg [/QUOTE]
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