How to Handle Trick or Treating

isufbcurt

Well-Known Member
Apr 21, 2006
27,536
44,504
113
46
Newton
I grew up 2 hours away in Cedar Rapids and that's how we did it. It's only a dumb central Iowa thing to not do Halloween on October 31st. Des Moines can't figure out how to do the 4th of July on the 4th either.

Des Moines gonna Des Moines gonna Des Moines???
 

JWIL4CY

Active Member
Nov 17, 2010
1,378
49
38
Urbandale
Whatever you do, please don't be one of these parents....

I4gkZJg.jpg
 

CRcyclone6

Well-Known Member
Bookie
Dec 27, 2007
12,152
4,098
113
54
Cedar Rapids
My wife works weekends at St. Lukes so it will be me with the kids. I will follow with my 6pack cooler, watching on the Fox on the Go app or whatever it's called. Won't miss a thing.
 

ISUcyclones11

Well-Known Member
Dec 11, 2014
3,939
2,591
113
Ankeny, IA
I always thought Iowa was pretty much the only place that did the whole Beggar's night thing. Ankeny does in on the 30th regardless, which makes ~0 sense.
 

Antihawk240

Well-Known Member
May 17, 2012
921
1,061
93
Whatever you do, please don't be one of these parents....

I4gkZJg.jpg

We go trick or treating with friends who's child has a severe peanut allergy. Our kids are best friends. It's all good. I never once heard the parents get frustrated or complain. It's the best when we get home though. The boy with the peanut allergy dumps all his stuff out and it is literally a live auction and trading going on in the living room. "Billy, I'll trade you my 3 nerds for your 1 snickers." "Sorry Mike, I can get 4 Laffy Taffy from Johnny for the snickers, but I'll let the Baby Ruth go for your 3 Nerds"
 

AmCyFan

New Member
Nov 14, 2014
25
0
1
That's funny. I'm a mom with now 3 college-aged kids (2 at ISU) so I just wanted to have candy for any kids who are there. I will also have fun Halloween-themed treats for the adults so you are all welcome. Just don't want to confuse the "drunken gummies" with the ones for the kids....
 

cycloneG

Well-Known Member
Mar 7, 2007
15,982
16,621
113
Off the grid
Yeah that would be like opening presents on Xmas or getting your Easter basket on Easter. What type of weirdos do that stuff?

And yet we're forced to do this all the time. When you have two families to visit for holidays. You always open Christmas presents and receive Easter baskets on days that aren't the actual holiday. Celebrating a holiday on the actual day isn't a requirement to enjoy the holiday. Just having time to celebrate it is the important part. Who cares what day it's on?
 

CyStalker

Well-Known Member
Jul 16, 2012
1,764
142
63
Ankeny
We go trick or treating with friends who's child has a severe peanut allergy. Our kids are best friends. It's all good. I never once heard the parents get frustrated or complain. It's the best when we get home though. The boy with the peanut allergy dumps all his stuff out and it is literally a live auction and trading going on in the living room. "Billy, I'll trade you my 3 nerds for your 1 snickers." "Sorry Mike, I can get 4 Laffy Taffy from Johnny for the snickers, but I'll let the Baby Ruth go for your 3 Nerds"

That's awesome!!! Learning to work with your disadvantage is better than using it as a crutch.
 

coolerifyoudid

Well-Known Member
Feb 8, 2013
17,323
27,042
113
KC
Whatever you do, please don't be one of these parents....

I4gkZJg.jpg

She's obviously never heard of the teal pumpkin project.
http://www.foodallergy.org/teal-pumpkin-project#.VjO7jberRV8

I was gonna defend the kids with allergies a bit, but then I read through that whole flyer. Wow, that's over the top. "comes home every year devastated he can't eat any candy he's collected" - really? Maybe tell your kid to pick **** he's not allergic to.

I'm surprised they didn't just go to every house before their kid and give them the candy to pass out to their kid. Hell, that might be a better option than trying to micromanage Halloween for everyone else.
 

3TrueFans

Just a Happily Married Man
Sep 10, 2009
63,250
61,946
113
Ames
She's obviously never heard of the teal pumpkin project.
http://www.foodallergy.org/teal-pumpkin-project#.VjO7jberRV8

I was gonna defend the kids with allergies a bit, but then I read through that whole flyer. Wow, that's over the top. "comes home every year devastated he can't eat any candy he's collected" - really? Maybe tell your kid to pick **** he's not allergic to.

I'm surprised they didn't just go to every house before their kid and give them the candy to pass out to their kid. Hell, that might be a better option than trying to micromanage Halloween for everyone else.
I don't think that's a bad idea at all, go to the houses on your street and give them a little bag with treats/trinkets and say my kid will be coming by in this costume could you give this to him since he can't have the normal candy.
 

Tailg8er

Well-Known Member
Feb 25, 2011
7,891
4,743
113
38
Johnston
I don't think that's a bad idea at all, go to the houses on your street and give them a little bag with treats/trinkets and say my kid will be coming by in this costume could you give this to him since he can't have the normal candy.

Agree, & I think that's actually been done by some parents in the past. Pretty sure I've seen a story about it once or twice anyway.
 

1100011CS

Well-Known Member
Oct 5, 2007
16,127
5,845
113
Marshalltown
I thought some towns have a 'beggars night' during the week on years when Halloween falls on a weekend so kids aren't out running around in the streets with a bunch of drunks driving around.
 

besserheimerphat

Well-Known Member
Apr 11, 2006
11,484
15,329
113
Mount Vernon, WA
I thought some towns have a 'beggars night' during the week on years when Halloween falls on a weekend so kids aren't out running around in the streets with a bunch of drunks driving around.

Don't most towns have set hours for trick-or-treating, like 6 - 9 PM? If you're drunk before 9PM...
 

bringmagicback

Well-Known Member
Dec 3, 2009
7,858
1,113
83
CF Resident Dog Lover
I'm surprised they didn't just go to every house before their kid and give them the candy to pass out to their kid. Hell, that might be a better option than trying to micromanage Halloween for everyone else.

A lot of parents with kids with disabilities (not saying an allergy is a disability) think that the world needs to adapt to the kid instead of the kid adapting to the world (that doesn't make as much sense typed out). So instead of teaching the kid that ya, well peanuts exsist, sorry kid. You cant eat them. They want to abolish peanuts instead so little johnny doesn't get his feelings hurt.
 

Tedcyclone

Well-Known Member
Oct 27, 2009
2,992
201
63
47
West Des Moines
I drove the kids to trick or treat in Des Moines at JCreek Mall last night so I could go.
Go to a town that has Friday Night Trick or Treat.

What ever you do I like to follow this moniker.

Family First. What ever that means.
 

Antihawk240

Well-Known Member
May 17, 2012
921
1,061
93
A lot of parents with kids with disabilities (not saying an allergy is a disability) think that the world needs to adapt to the kid instead of the kid adapting to the world (that doesn't make as much sense typed out). So instead of teaching the kid that ya, well peanuts exsist, sorry kid. You cant eat them. They want to abolish peanuts instead so little johnny doesn't get his feelings hurt.

Our friends take the opposite approach. They do not run in fear of the peanut, but they are pretty big believers in educating everyone who deals with their child on how to use the Epi-Pen. The little guy is just about big enough to take care of himself now. He comes over to our house to spend the night and he gives us "the shot" and asks us if we know how to use it (which by now obviously we do), then usually has some smartalek remark about us not screwing anything up, and boom he is off throwing the ball outside with our son.

You'd be surprised though, 2 years ago it never would have even caught my attention, and kind of had the "kids need to toughen up" attitude. Now I find myself reading labels and asking questions ANY time he's around.
 

Latest posts

Help Support Us

Become a patron