People who encourage Halloween should be ashamed of themselves

Every year in the UK there are debates and petitions to ban trick or
treat in the UK. It sounds more civilised in the US, over here it’s a marauding
free for all. I think there is also an element too of parental peer pressure, where parents
feel they have to join in as they don’t want it to appear their children are missing out.

A shame people aren't listening long-term on here.

For Shirley, much of this had to do with this paragraph --



Here's the rest. Her aunt also is very frail, and can't stand, quite often, although she doesn't remember that, so tries anyway. If she falls, EMTs have to come to help her up. That frail!

Add to that, she has delirium, not just in the parts of the day when Miri has time to remind her of this, but at inconvenient times -- like the middle of the night often and when Miri is trying to do normal things the rest of us never have to think twice about -- like making meals, doing laundry, etc.

Add to that, her aunt is very sickly in other ways.

And, mostly add to that, Miri has been alone in this for over five years now. Even when her aunt is in the hospital so much else is going on with her aunt, that Miri is frayed always trying to keep things going -- mostly her aunt and herself.

She hasn't been quiet about this. She had another post on this forum earlier today about being sleep deprived.

If she could get fulltime help, even the fulltime help would need someone to do what she couldn't do, and that's with Miri still helping. She's doing the work of three people this week alone. AND, when she goes back to work, four people.

So, come on, and let Miri have a place to grumble. Yeah, most elderly aren't like that. Even her aunt isn't like that, but try taking care of her aunt for a week, and you'll be amazed how kind Miri is being.

Mostly? Mostly, I wish people would listen to each other more often on a Christian site.

that's a naughty mom and dad problem more than a naughty kid problem.

muuuuch harder to correct. lol

you'll probably never get it banned, improvement is most likely the best you can hope for.

has it quieted down at all yet? praying for you and mum. ♥

Aw you made me cry now with your kind words.

Seriously though I really dont understand why children along with their parents go knocking on
strangers doors, what if it’s an elderly person, a drug addict, a sex offences, a deranged madman
with a gun, or someone sleep deprived person like me. Lol

Why can’t they just go to friends and family.

Asking an American something like that is like asking what's up with that Santa dude. Why would anyone let their child sit on the lap of a stranger. (Does Father Christmas do that too?) And who was the dimwit who decided Christmas was about over-lavishing their kids with a bazillion and one gifts? Truthfully, it's been so ingrained in us that this is what Halloween is about for so long, we have no idea where this started and why it become such a big part of our culture.

I've got nothing. Whoever came up with this idea was before my father's time. lol

Every year in the UK there are debates and petitions to ban trick or
treat in the UK. It sounds more civilised in the US, over here it’s a marauding
free for all. I think there is also an element too of parental peer pressure, where parents
feel they have to join in as they don’t want it to appear their children are missing out.

I heard originally that it was a celtic custom for feeding and blending in with the dead,some say otherwise but it is rather odd no matter the origin.

Sad, but it's one of those seemingly harmless things thats becoming 'part of life.' While we did not grow up w/ that, it (Halloween) is becoming part of school as well, where they had this halloween party at school last week. I was glad when i met a child's parent who is Christian... they go to a church where we know the pastor has a radio ministry, and he is both patriotic and Bible-based in teachings, letting us see and understand how different our culture is and to adapt or not adapt what is Christian in things being shared or passed on to us. Then i learned their family went trick or treat from an fb post..

Oh well, i am in fact writing a late response to the student council's permit letter for the halloween party, and why there was no 'Not allowing' option, though we did not really let the kids go.

You have a problem in the UK, one that I've never seen in the US, even in the bad nehiborhood I grew up in. Here if a porch light isn't lit the kids don't go to that house.

And you say Halloween is the worst thing to come to the UK? That can't be true, even if hollowen is pure evil, its up to your own people to take a moral stance or indulge.

I have to question that. The worst US import is that "chocolate" made by the Hershey company. It tastes like soured milk.

And if kids over there don't have a tradition of leaving dark houses alone, I would personally consider electrifying the front steps. Nothing lethal, just enough to give them a REAL scare. Word would get around about my house real fast and I probably wouldn't have any more trouble.

She may have garnered a more sympathetic reaction if she weren't so harshly trashing the parents. Stupid. Idiots. Etc...
So not only is she flatly insulting some people in this site she's always attacking many of our parents as well. And our grandparents. Her tone isn't "venting" it's attacking. I'd say this is a very, very poorly made series of posts by Miri.
She could've simply expressed her frustration over the holiday without name calling and attacking people over and over and over, with those attacks translating to attacking everyone's parents who have ever let their kids go trick or treating. I can't see venting as justifying that.

Yes it’s gone quite now, the Carer came and we put my aunt to bed.
The Carer was saying she had just been to one elderly person’s house and not only
were they knocking on the door, but when they didn’t get an answer they started knocking
on the window.


Oh and yes ugly, the parents are stupid as they stand and watch their kids doing this.
Notmyown got it correct, it’s a naughty parent problem as they seem to think their little sons and
daughters are entitled to make a nuisance of themselves. If you can think of a better word
to describe an adult who stands and watches their kids knocking and kicking doors and
knocking on windows of a strangers house while laughing and smiling at them,
then I’m open to suggestions.

I heard originally that it was a celtic custom for feeding and blending in with the dead,some say otherwise but it is rather odd no matter the origin.

You have a problem in the UK, one that I've never seen in the US, even in the bad nehiborhood I grew up in. Here if a porch light isn't lit the kids don't go to that house.

And you say Halloween is the worst thing to come to the UK? That can't be true, even if hollowen is pure evil, its up to your own people to take a moral stance or indulge.

I have to question that. The worst US import is that "chocolate" made by the Hershey company. It tastes like soured milk.

I mentioned it was the worst US import.

I have to question that. The worst US import is that "chocolate" made by the Hershey company. It tastes like soured milk.

And if kids over there don't have a tradition of leaving dark houses alone, I would personally consider electrifying the front steps. Nothing lethal, just enough to give them a REAL scare. Word would get around about my house real fast and I probably wouldn't have any more trouble.

You forget I’m a woman, I don’t think I have ever come across a brand of chocolate
I don’t like. Lol