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Anonymous wrote:I was astounded by the number of kids that were accompanied by their parents but still didn't say "trick or treat" or thank me for the huge handful of candy I gave them. Their parents were right next to them, and even they didn't say thank you!!!

Get the F over it. If you are giving out candy for the damn thank you, then just don't participate. Enough with these stupid PSA halloween shaming posts.

Hahaha, mommy whose kid was an a-hole to all the neighbors is out tonight.

Who cares? It’s Halloween and these aren’t your kids. It’s a night for kids, not adults.

I’m all for good manners but I wasn’t taking it personally when some sugared up overexcited 5 year old forgot to say thank you. Big whoop.

This morning I was at the farmer's market and two kids, around 5 and 7 came zooming over and one cut right in front of me. Their dad eventually followed behind and told his kid not to step in front of me. The 5 yr old got right in my face and yelled "If you're not in line you should get out of here! Move!" and I just looked down at her and said "I'm allowed to be anywhere I want to be," and then her dad was like "we have to wait in line." That's it? That's ALL you want to say to your fresh kid?

That's why so many American kids are bullies. They lack of good manners. Tell your children to say thank you and please.

You chose to have children, so be a parent. You are the first teachers in a child's life. Stop being LAZY. It's not the school's job to teach your kids good manners. Stop being lazy.

My child is so shy that she won't say anything, but I as parent standing next to her will say Thank you to whoever is giving us candy.

Anonymous wrote:Is there one person anger typing answers to everyone who say kids are not evil? I love the internet.

I don't know? I can't figure out why my post about my walking 17 month old who can't speak yet was deleted. Clearly very offensive to suggests that some kids can walk but are not yet developmentally able to speak (hence no thank you's or trick or treats).

That was not my experience at all. Virtually all the kids TOTing in my neighborhood (Capitol Hill, which includes LOTS of kids who drive in from neighboring towns) said Trick or Treat and Thank you. Their parents were urging them on from the sidewalk.

Anonymous wrote:A few didn't say trick or treat, but every kid last night said thank you. One little girl did a few twirls for me. A couple kids wanted to chat. It was a very sweet group, including the teens!

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Our neighborhood is notoriously good for trick or treating so we get a ton of people who drive here to do it. I would say the majority of them say TOT and thank you, or their parents prompted them if they didn't. They were very well behaved and sweet.

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Anonymous wrote:Agreed. Virtually none of the kids said "Trick or Treat," and only a few said thank you.

I asked my kids to say TOT and Thank you while I stood at the end of the driveway. Mostly they were too shy to do it. Most of the adults helped them out by saying Happy Halloween! and What a cute costume!

Sorry.

If your kids are old enough to walk up to the door, they are old enough to say "ToT" and "thank you."

For heaven's sake.

A year or so of covid wasn't great for kids' socialization. Some of the younger kids are having a normal trick or treating experience for the first time in years. Even last year most people set up tables at the end of their driveway or just left a bowl out so that they were not exposed to kids and their germs

+1 My child kept asking why he had to talk to people this year. He wanted it to go back to the covid era and tables on the driveway!

Honestly that was a pretty fun year. People did cool giveways outside of just candy like glow sticks and playdough. It was one of our favorite halloweens too.

Anonymous wrote:I was astounded by the number of kids that were accompanied by their parents but still didn't say "trick or treat" or thank me for the huge handful of candy I gave them. Their parents were right next to them, and even they didn't say thank you!!!

Get the F over it. If you are giving out candy for the damn thank you, then just don't participate. Enough with these stupid PSA halloween shaming posts.

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Anonymous wrote:Agreed. Virtually none of the kids said "Trick or Treat," and only a few said thank you.

I asked my kids to say TOT and Thank you while I stood at the end of the driveway. Mostly they were too shy to do it. Most of the adults helped them out by saying Happy Halloween! and What a cute costume!

Sorry.

If your kids are old enough to walk up to the door, they are old enough to say "ToT" and "thank you."

For heaven's sake.

A year or so of covid wasn't great for kids' socialization. Some of the younger kids are having a normal trick or treating experience for the first time in years. Even last year most people set up tables at the end of their driveway or just left a bowl out so that they were not exposed to kids and their germs

+1 My child kept asking why he had to talk to people this year. He wanted it to go back to the covid era and tables on the driveway!

Crazy.

Anonymous wrote:We do not expect good manners from ex-POTUS Donald Trump, so we should not expect good manners from kids. Especially if their parents are deplorables.

Rudeness is ok. Worry about these punks becoming mass shooters.

Get a grip. This is a thread about Halloween candy. And stop doom scrolling. Too much media consumption is unhealthy.

Is there one person anger typing answers to everyone who say kids are not evil? I love the internet.

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Anonymous wrote:If your kid smiled at me, nodded shyly, twirled in their costume, or did a little happy dance at the sight of our offerings, that’s enough for me. I got lots of “formal” thank yous, lots of “Trick or Treats,” plenty of shy interactions, and overall it was a fun night. Some of the kids weren’t perfect but hey—I wasn’t perfect all the time growing up.

And that's fine, but grab and run is not.

It sounds like you don’t like kids. Or accept they are imperfect and still figuring it all out. We really do work on manners in our home, but I think expecting anything other than sugar fueled chaos on Halloween is naive and coming off cranky.

We don't like your feral kids.

My child handed out candy. We had so much fun.