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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think you're being overprotective.  I have a 6th grade DD who is mature, responsible, has a phone, and [b]I'm still not letting her go without a parent.[/b]

She goes with the same friend every year and I just hang back and let them do their thing.  I don't go up to the houses with her, I blend in (lots of people out in the neighborhood), but keep an eye on her.  
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What is your reasoning?  What do you perceive as the risks, and how high are they?[/quote]

Trust me, I'm pretty free range.  My kids stayed home by themselves way before many other parents would have (like all day in the summer while I was at work) and I'm the first to say that kids aren't being snatched off the streets as much as cable news would have you believe.  But we go to a different neighborhood for trick or treating, not our own, so our house isn't there and my DD doesn't know it well.  It's dark, it's chaotic with tons of kids running everywhere.  It's just something *I* am not comfortable with my DD doing alone right now.  Next year, maybe.  [/quote]

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