Halloween 2024: I implore you to quit the most annoying parent behavior of all this year.
I grew up trick-or-treating in New York City. “Where are the kids grabbing hugely inappropriate handfuls of candy?” My uncle believed in manners, in decency, in raising children who were not wild beasts, but I will tell you, this distressed him. I will admit my experience here is in coastal cities only, so maybe in the heartland kids are still running wild, grabbing hugely inappropriate handfuls of Twizzlers and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. Related From Slate The Surprising Origins of One of the Most Annoying New Halloween Traditions The truth is, parenting has transformed so much, with so many new norms and expectations, that it feels almost unbearable to watch our kids behave like, well, kids, on Halloween. “Take as much as you want, really get in there!” I said, and he looked at me, glanced around to see if any other kids were coming, and then he just went for it, dumping every last piece of candy into his sack with a determination that’s going to make him the CEO of a Fortune 500 company someday.
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