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Trick-or-Treating Tips for Parents Seeking Sweet, Tasty Success

October 21, 2019 by Pete Gilbert 1 Comment

father holds hand of toddler dressed as snow white while trick-or-treating on Halloween

Ready or not, here comes Halloween! By now, you’ve probably run across some of the hundreds of articles on the internet offering tips that guarantee a successful night of trick-or-treating for your kids.

But what about trick-or-treating success for parents? We got your back!

If your children are young, you’ll need to go trick-or-treating with them. Before leaving your house, set out an empty basket on your front porch. Make it look like it’s been tipped over. Add a sign that says, “Take one!” Kids (and more importantly their judging parents) will think you’ve already run out of candy and not that you’re too cheap to buy enough in the first place.

If you’re planning on wearing a costume while walking around with your kids, think it through. If you’re like me, Halloween is the only day of the year you even speak to half of your neighbors. Do you really want to have a conversation with them dressed as a clown or wearing a Trump wig?

In regard your kid’s costume, conventional wisdom says children should not wear masks that obscure their vision. I say, make sure your child’s costume has a full mask! With their impaired eyesight you’ll have no problem freely reaching into their candy basket for all the Krackel you can eat.

Also, while walking around your neighborhood, make sure you have a flashlight. Your neighbors will think you are being a responsible parent keeping your child safe, but you can actually use it to look for dropped candy along the sidewalks.

At the end of the night, every good parent needs to check their child’s candy before letting them eat any. I could not agree more with this tip. Don’t forget to “inspect” all the candy and remove anything that seems suspect (or contains gooey caramel and milk chocolate that you can further “investigate” after the kids are in bed).

Happy parenting and happy Halloween!

A version of this first appeared on Indy’s Child. Photo by Haley Phelps on Unsplash.

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Filed Under: holidays Tagged With: Halloween, humor

About Pete Gilbert

Pete Gilbert is really Brian Craig, a stay-at-home dad to three elementary-school aged kids, is A Dad Influence blogger and monthly columnist for Indy’s Child the Magazine and Cincinnati Parent Magazine. He is also co-organizer of Indianapolis Dads Group and a sixth-grade spelling bee runner-up. He can be found on Facebook, and Twitter.

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  1. Delaney Vantull says

    November 7, 2019 at 4:46 pm

    Funny article, I will be sure to “inspect” my kids’ candy next Halloween more carefully! Lol!

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