I see Bobby's point about erring on the safe side in regards to
Halloween. However, when I was a kid, my parents, my school, and
sometimes our church would take it as an opportunity to do something
fun in spite of what everyone else might be doing. There'd always be
a "harvest festival" or something where kids were welcome to dress up,
but which and demons were highly discouraged.
I think this sort of approach is easier than ever for Christian
parents. Walk around the costume area at Wal-mart and you'll find
that most of the kids' costumes are innocent get-ups that your child
could have fun wearing any day of the year. Your candy container of
choice could be Spider Man, Darth Vader, Disney Princesses, etc. If
you want to carve a pumpkin (which I see nothing wrong with) you don't
have to give it an evil face, you can use a pattern book to carve a
fairy-tale castle or a cartoon character. We've always "done
something on" but not necessarily "celebrated" Halloween since Kendi
was born. She has no idea of its roots (although she's getting old
enough to withstand the educational process). Not only was it
something fun to do when the rest of our neighborhood was doing the
same kind of thing but, if she had friends that were into the darker
side of Halloween, I think it's easy for her to accept that we do
something different that is fun rather than feeling like she's missing
out on something.
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