Happy Halloween (or what's so happy about it?)

Gomo kindly picked a very cute Cinderella dress for the Changster. We all thought she would happily wear the gown but she said one gotta look scary for Halloween and so her decision was to pull out the 3D pumpkin suit that we bought her when she was 18 months old. Erhh... a plump orange Pumpkin itself wasn't scary. The entourage that accompanied the Changster was.

Who would dare to take Changster's candy when Grandpa was walking 15 yards behind with the ever hyper Bear. Daddy was 10 feet away with an abnormally big face/chin/neck because of his sore throat and mummy was dressed as a witch (fits my personality much better than Kick Buttowski according to my BFFs at work. I take it as a compliment) right next to her. We knocked on doors, Changster repeated the same three steps:

1) Happy Halloween (what's so happy about it? In fact, why do we need to go around to do T&T on Oct 31??)
2) pick one, nothing more nothing less, candy from each basket (call me the ultimate smug parent but I was very proud of the Changster for being able to demonstrate self-discipline when adults were saying "take more!")
3) Thank you.

Some kids eyed the Changster up and down and focused on her candy bag but the moment they wanted to make a move, they were met with the deadly stare of Dyson 2000.

What prompted me to write this is the behaviour of other children who came to our place for Trick or Treat and those we met at other houses.

Do parents teach children the true meaning of value anymore? The behaviour of those childen seem to scream value means how much candy you can grab in two seconds or selecting the house with the best treat or better yet, put on a new hat and hit the same house again because of the quality of treats. Those children moved in like sharks dancing around a pool of blood when the door opened and appeared a basket of candy. They elbowed each other out of the way and greedily stuffed candies into their big trash bag.

In case you are reading this and your parents didn't teach you or you want to teach your kids. Here's my penny worth:

-Don't get overly excited when someone is handing out free candies. I checked the packages, there are some pretty nice ones and some about to expire ones too

-Don't judge a book by the cover. You may be picking on the youngest one in the crowd, the big scary one might jump out from behind to give you a real lesson. The same principal applies when you go to school, go to work... just learn to be nice and fair

- Candies may give you the instant pleasure from sugar rush, you will suffer from depression and unnecessary weight gain which will take some pretty extreme measure to loose

- Just because you wear a Halloween outfit doesn't mean I don't know which house you live in. You will have to pay for your rudeness and trust me on this one

Happy Halloween!