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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is your issue that he will be without an adult, or that he will be in a different neighborhood?

If the former, I can say that my 13 y/o has been trick-or-treating with friends for a few years now. But it's always been in somekne's neighborhood.

As long as they are going to a safe neighborhood that is relatively easy to navigate, I'd be ok with a different neighborhood, IF they had a good reason for it (like your neighborhood isn't as good for trick-or-treating.). If it were just that they wanted to go somewhere else for no apparent reason, I'd wonder if there was a less appealing, unstated (mischievous) reason.  [/quote]

OP here. My main concern is its being a neighborhood where none of the kids actially live.At least if there were a parent nominally "hosting" we'd have a house to pick up and drop off at. And a house for him to go to if he gets tired early or he wants to separate from the group.  Plus, I would think being in a friends neighborhood would put something of a check on behavior that might otherwise escalate in a group of 10-12 middle school boys. I doubt it will get beyond ringing a doorbell and running off, but it wouldn't totally shock me if 1 or 2 from his peer group (including him)  brings eggs or toilet paper. But, like I said, I'm stodgy. We made the behavior expectations (costume plus polite) very clear, and he will have a cell phone. I know he knows three will be heck to pay if any serious pranks are discovered, but I'm just not sure in the moment, with just peers present, he would make the right call.[/quote]

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