happy hollween! Throw candy at kids!

[thejackaolf]

Happy Halloween!(im sober now...lets see here)

I’ve yelled at a lot of people this year, because I've taken to reading parenting articles, for whatever reason I think its to get a parenting fix (note to self: adoption is hard) but three’s (yes..only three) been so many WHINY fucking articles “Halloween’s to scurry for mah poor spoohel snowflake

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[wolfmare]

I'm of the opinion that Halloween is a day meant for getting scared on. To celebrate, we took my 7 year old to a haunted house. He didn't scream or cry, though he was a bit wide-eyed as we walked out. His expression was perfect, and he had me laughing my ass off. Then, after getting scared but trying to tough it out, he decided it was fun and wanted to do the second (and more scary) part of it. But, was well past his bedtime, so we kinda couldn't (that, and another $50-60 for all three of us to do that one was kinda out of our price range this time.

Next year, totally doing both!

[thejackaolf]

Thats pretty much my idea on it, besides that this person was bitching a haunted house was just to scurry, from what i saw of it it was a tame one (have worked several big ones that actually as warning ageist bringing small children due to its nature of omfg scurry) i think exposing children to "safe fear" is a good teaching tool for dealing with real life scary moments anyway, but to many children are being put into these bubbles now a days the moment there on there own there going to have a panic attack that the kettle is whistling and die.

[wolfmare]

No kidding. It's stuff like "omg you can't lick the bowl the cake batter was in because you'll salmonella and DIE" that gets me. I did that as a kid, and never got sick from it. Same thing for riding a bike without a helmet or pads, got skinned to hell and was still perfectly fine. Kids now are coddled and they grow up with the umbilical cord still attached it seems like.

I was on my own at 17, took my lumps and learned my lessons, and I'm a stronger and better person for it. My parents didn't completely coddle me, and I'm thankful for that. I try to let my son learn some lessons the hard way, because it will save him real trauma later in life.