Halloween is to practice being scared

Now that Halloween is over, and the ghosts and goblins and trick or treaters and (most importantly) my daughter have gone to bed, I thought I’d reflect a bit on Halloween and when it means to me as a parent.

My daughter is four, and she’s never been fond of scares, so this time of year any time we go out shopping, we’re braving a potential minefield.

Stores seem to love putting motion activated spiders and skeletons up on candy aisles and endcaps. And so I end up carrying my daughter a lot, we have to make a lot of detours. and my wife looks especially haggard more often when I get home from work.

Published at November 1, 2010 ·  3 min read