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Isn’t it funny how your perspective changes on everything once you become a parent? Halloween is the perfect example. As a kid, you never ever think twice about trick or treating, you just do it! It’s FUN! It’s a rite of passage in our country to do the trick or treating thing. From a kid’s perspective, it’s all about getting as much loot as possible, counting and sorting it when you get home, comparing with your siblings and then hiding it. At least that’s how it was for us. 

           The year was 1978 and I was living in Jacksonville, Florida, in a house at the edge of a quiet residential neighborhood.  Songs from Saturday Night Fever were still in heavy rotation on the radio and I would ride through the neighborhood on my Stars-and-Stripes bicycle, singing along to the BeeGees at the top of my lungs (nobody told me that wasn’t cool, so I was in bliss).  The leaves never really change color in that part of Florida, but Halloween was only a week away and I was so excited.

For many people, autumn events like Halloween and Harvest Day are fun times to dress up in costumes, go trick-or-treating, attend parties, and eat yummy treats. These events are also opportunities to provide nutritious snacks, get physical activity, and focus on safety.

Below are tips to help make the festivities fun and safe for trick-or-treaters and party guests.

I used to be really crafty. As in arts and crafty.  I have a closet full of drawers filled with glitter, pipe cleaners, googley eyes, buttons, construction paper, markers, and yes, I own a glue gun and I know how to use it.

Trick or treating at the Disneyland Resort has become a tradition for our family. Every year the kids eagerly await the evening.  This year did not disappoint!  For the first time Disneyland hosted the Mickey’s Trick or Treat instead of California Adventure.

Do they Boo in your town?  Or is Booing a Laguna Beach thing? They certainly didn’t Boo in NY when I was a Trick or Treater.