Halloween Family Tips and Advice
By: Alma de la Cruz
Adults, parents and their children cherish Halloween so much that some of them may devote their energies a couple of previous months just to make sure they get the most popular costumes, and to organize the best parties.
Halloween is set in the Gregorian calendar every October 31 being one of the children most waited date in which they can get their favorite appetizer: candies. During Halloween, children wear costumes and go door-to-door in their neighborhood, knocking doors or ringing doorbells while yelling "trick or treat!" The inhabitants of the house, sometime dressed up in scary costumes, will then hand out small candies, miniature chocolate bars or other treats.
That makes me think sort of an episode of the mysterious but still funny detective TV show Monk when his new assistant was stepping on a murderer footstep who tried to poison his wife through a chocolate bar, creating confusion as they thought some kids have it by mistake during their trick-or-treating.
People enjoying Halloween forget sometimes, like in any other festivity, to control their energies, increasing, somehow, the reports of accidents. But on the other hand, it is my pleasure to recognize that there have been increasing interests on safety manners to apply during the Halloween trick-or-treating.
For all those words above, ill hand you my short Halloween family tips and advice:
- Plan your route and make sure an adult knows where you are going.
- Have an adult accompany you for trick or treating.
- Never go alone, go with a parent or treat in groups.
- Wear reflective clothing so that you can be seen at night.
- Use make-up instead of a mask so that you can see well.
- Take a flashlight.
- Do not eat the candies until your parents check them.
- Stick to well lit streets.
- Try to finish your trick or treating at 8 p.m.
- Do not enter into a stranger house nor go to home where front lights are not turned on.
- Always say please and thank you.
- Do not run into the streets.
- Cross streets only at corners, never from between parked cars.
- Do have an adult check your candy before you eat any of it.
- Do not eat candy if the wrapper is partially open or is taped.
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