Been reading all the threads on the making of halloween costumes etc, and do feel that I am the only one who will not let their children participate! Someone please tell me that I am not? We have a party at our church on the 31st October and my children go to that, and always enjoy it, I would never let them go trick or treating having explained that I feel that it is wrong to threaten people in order to get sweets, or if you aren't going to play a trick its begging!
This does come across as so heavy, and I don't mean it to, but I cant beleive that I'm the only one who feels this way.
Why the hypocrite? Because I give sweets out as in the past I have had my front door smeared with jam and eggs thrown at my windows and its the easiest option! I have never done any doorstop preaching just in case anyone is thinking that I deserve it for being a stuck up cow, but have simply said 'sorry, we don't celebrate Halloween'. My mum who is 76 and lives on her own absoluley dreads tonight, as she hates answering the door after dark as she doesn't know who is there and is scared that if she doesn't answer someone will do something horrid to her.
What do other mumsnetters think?