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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's surprising to me how naive some adults and especially older people are when it comes to leaving a large bowl of free candy on their porch.  Emptying the bowl is terrible and something all parents hope they raised their kids not to do when tempted.  But the fact is, groups of kids (mostly older kids), trick or treating unsupervised by an adult will sometimes behave badly - especially when their is peer pressure from one of the kids to do it.  We've seen this play out on our porch camera videos several years.  We only leave the bucket out briefly so we can walk our kids around - and 50% of the time its empty when we get back... and the video shows the cuplrits.  Sometimes kids we know from down the street even - whose parents we speak with at BBQs and forth of July parties...

It's unfortunate, but a reality, not worth troubling the police over. [/quote]

"We"? Why doesn't one parent stay home to participate in the ToT ritual. Thats boring, right?[/quote]

It’s weird that both parents go so much now without someone stationed at home to distribute candy.[/quote]

Why is it weird to want to watch your kid do a very fun and very cute activity? Plus seeing all the decorations and ToT setups is great too! But I’m not one of those people who cares if one kid takes the whole bowl while we are gone. [/quote]

Bc it usually leaves fewer houses for ToT. Bowls on the porch don’t count. One parent can go down one side of the street and the other can take the second shift and do the other side. Then everyone has stories to share when you’re all settled back home. When they are older, they should go with their friends and maybe one chaperone for the group. [/quote]

Meh. There are always going to be plenty of houses with no kids, older kids that went out without parents, or a parent who preferred to stay behind. [/quote]

This. I did feel a little guilty and I'm sure a couple times we left a bowl of candy when DH and I both went to ToT with our kids in the 2-7 age time frame. Now that they are both in college I have the perspective that parents with little kids should do that, enjoy the night, and not feel like someone has to stay home. It is such a short period of time. We have years to be the people at home handing out candy.

I guess this doesn't work so much if you live in a newer housing development where nearly everyone has young kids. But we live in an old, established neighborhood with people in all life stages. There were always plenty of houses to ToT at even if the families with young kids were all out.[/quote]

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