Halloween

Halloween is a fun holiday where kids, and even some adults, go out door to door and get candy from everyone around the block. It seems like a good time but there are many dangers that go along with Halloween. The world we live in today is filled with paranoia and the best of this paranoia comes out on Halloween night. Parents take extreme caution when letting their kids go out trick or treating. Even being in your neighborhood there are still dangerous threats everywhere. Kids on Halloween have been reported lost, stolen and sometimes even beaten for their candy. Such a nice sounding holiday can be one of the worst days in a kid’s life. When I was young and went trick or treating my parents would always tell me to never eat the candy that was not fully wrapped. If the candy was unwrapped they said people could have poisoned it. Now when I look back, I feel that the whole “poison candy” thing was ridiculous. But from all the stories you hear today I can’t blame my parents for taking those precautions.

Another controversy today with parents and Halloween are some of the costumes that parents let their children wear. While in driving on my way to school, on the radio they discussed this topic. One parent argued that she let her 11 year old daughter wear a somewhat sleazy outfit because it was only one night and that her daughter never dresses like that daily. The other parent argued against this. She said that if she allows her daughter to dress like that then she is setting a bad example for all her other friends that see her. Also she said that it increases her chance of being kidnapped by sexual predators. In my opinion, I feel that it all depends on the location of where you are trick or treating. But I completely disagree with sending your 11 year daughter that looks like a hooker out on Halloween by herself. All over the news you hear of these tragic stories of girls being rapped and taken advantage of. Having young kids trick or treating by themselves certainly is not helping the cause. It only increases the risk.

So as Halloween approaches this Monday I am going to pay more attention to the costumes that some people wear. Some people wear them to celebrate Halloween and some other people may wear them for attention. Such as in my school. There has been an increasing amount of inappropriate costumes every year and some kids even get sent home for it. In my school sometimes the Halloween costumes students chose can say a lot about them.  Some girls will wear costumes that are extremely revealing and majority of the time they are the girls who are considered, for a lack of a better term, “easy”, in our school. So as Halloween approaches tomorrow I have made predictions of what girls will look “easy” and chances are that I will be correct, like I am every year.