Do you drink alcohol while ToTing with your kids?

[Anonymous]

No, I'm not an alcoholic though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We don't, but many parents do. I'd rather have my full faculties when walking the kids around in the dark (and yes, I do drink - just not in this case).

Same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, I'm not an alcoholic though.

What's it like in your black and white world?

[Anonymous]

No i microdose shrooms

[Anonymous]

We do trick-or-treating for grownups.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No i microdose shrooms

Don't pilot any airplanes!

[Anonymous]

I've had a small cup of mulled wine. But nothing as a rule.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yup. I don't get wasted. But I enjoy (usually) nice weather and a walk with friends and neighbors. It's a festival kind of feel and everyone is very social. I've seen lots of drinking but never any sloppiness about it.

Same

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, I'm not an alcoholic though.

What's it like in your black and white world?

It's great. I am capable of spending an hour walking my kid around the neighborhood and then enjoying a glass of wine at home, without needing to carry a little "mommy juice" around with me while I make a nice memory with my kid.

I'm sorry that you can't do normal parenting activities without alcohol. That sounds difficult.

[Anonymous]

Yes I definitely do, and have a lot of fun!

[Anonymous]

Some people have wine or shots for parents which I have appreciated but I don't start with anything or expect it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We do a spiked hot coffee or cider drink.

I thought I’d carry on my mom's 1970s tradition of handing out hot cider to adults on Halloween. I did it Halloween 2003 when we moved to our current dcumlandia suburban neighborhood. Never again because every other parent asked if it was spiked/refused or held up a cup saying they already had their boozy beverage!

An adjacent court puts up cones at dusk. The parents gather to pre party with a keg. By the time actual ToT begins, one semi drunk dad stands over each residents’ huge bowl of candy lined up in from of the cones and instructs TOTers not to go any further, “jusstake shumcandees frumeach boll.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, I'm not an alcoholic though.

Ha, I actually don't either, because I have issues with alcohol and would not be able to stop at one and would worry about safety on Halloween night. More power to people who are able to drink one or two responsibly and have a nice night with their kids!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, I'm not an alcoholic though.

What's it like in your black and white world?

It's great. I am capable of spending an hour walking my kid around the neighborhood and then enjoying a glass of wine at home, without needing to carry a little "mommy juice" around with me while I make a nice memory with my kid.

I'm sorry that you can't do normal parenting activities without alcohol. That sounds difficult.

So your kids are so awful that you need to find solace in a glass of wine at the end of the night after spending an hour with them? I am sorry you are such a bad parent that you can't take your kids ToTing without having to drink way your troubles with "mommy juice" at the end of the night.

[Anonymous]

Yes, we get absolutely hammered.

Though we don’t actually drink while trick or treating as our DCs are old enough to go alone (7 and 5). We do it at the house handing out candy. Probably a few edibles as well.

Still very responsible. I search my kids’ haul very carefully looking for some free fentanyl to close out the night.