Reflecting on Halloween
Nov. 1st, 2010 01:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mlsdesignsThe UK is very different from the US as far as halloween goes. Small children dressing up to go trick or treating, and decorating your house or front garden for the 'holiday' is only starting to catch on. More importantly it still seems to cause an awful lot of contention, (luckily the teenage idiots causing mindless damage seems to be petering off now), religeous types of all denominations objecting to the comercialisation on all levels.
Round where I live though, there seems to be a very nice balance. All the children from the surrounding area make a fantastic effort with their costumes, and come round all together with several mums to keep an eye on them. We always meet some of these children whenever we walk the dog, and they love the puppy, so we make friends. Last year the seven of them ranged in age from 5 to 13, and we were getting ready to go out to a ball so had forgotten to get any treats. We told them we didn't have anything, and they said 'that's ok, we didn't expect anything'! Their mums said they were just dressing up for fun and going home for a party afterwards. Such a nice change, didn't seem comercialised at all! So this year, I determined to get some treats in for them, and they were so excited, it was great!
If Halloween is going to continue in this vein over here I will be very happy, harmless fun that I hope to be able to join in when I have my own children :)
Round where I live though, there seems to be a very nice balance. All the children from the surrounding area make a fantastic effort with their costumes, and come round all together with several mums to keep an eye on them. We always meet some of these children whenever we walk the dog, and they love the puppy, so we make friends. Last year the seven of them ranged in age from 5 to 13, and we were getting ready to go out to a ball so had forgotten to get any treats. We told them we didn't have anything, and they said 'that's ok, we didn't expect anything'! Their mums said they were just dressing up for fun and going home for a party afterwards. Such a nice change, didn't seem comercialised at all! So this year, I determined to get some treats in for them, and they were so excited, it was great!
If Halloween is going to continue in this vein over here I will be very happy, harmless fun that I hope to be able to join in when I have my own children :)
