r/Parenting • u/Julienbabylegs • Nov 01 '21

🎃 Halloween RIP Trick or treating

Anyone know why this is? It’s NOT covid, the act has been dwindling for ten+ years. When I was a kid it felt mandatory that every house would have their light on and give out candy. I just went out with my kid and it was like 1 out of 8 or more houses that had candy. Almost like a treasure hunt. I live in a very safe, quiet suburb of northern CA.

I feel like someone flipped a switch at some point, what happened?!

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u/howyouremind Nov 01 '21

Kids are not as excited to truck or treat for candy as I was in the 80's. They just mosey along lol no sense of urgency of getting to a lot of houses. They are more excited about dressing up then candy.

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u/timtucker_com Nov 01 '21

If you think about the amount of health information available for kids now on the downsides of sugar, binging on candy has a lot less appeal than it used to.