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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had fun taking my kids trick or treating and watching their excitement, but I will say it's annoying that adults have sort of taken it over and made it about themselves too much. Our neighborhood has a mix of young families and parents of teens/college age/adult kids. Last night so many houses did not have their lights on because the adults with grown up kids were all partying around fire pits at one person's house instead. They just put out a table with bowls for the kids to grab candy. I know it's a silly thing to be annoyed at, but part of the fun for the kids is going door to door and saying "trick or treat!", having the adults comment on their costumes, etc. Now the adults just say "hey the candy's over there" and go back to their conversation with no other interaction with the kids. And yeah the friend group thing. Parents love posting photos of their big gathering on their own social media, like they want everyone to see how popular their kid is (or how popular they are, more likely). My own kids went with one friend that we coordinated with in advance and happened to ToT alongside a few other kids on our street for as long as our paths overlapped. None of us on our street felt the need to plan some big production where a group of 20 kids gets together before and after. It just feels engineered for the sake of social media, like so many things these days.[/quote]

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