I posted all our Halloween pics on our shutterfly site. Kids had fun, but far too many instances of them getting scared. Maeven wanted to go home early because of it. 🙁
Just wanted to fume here for a sec about parents that allow their children to dress in those horrid scream masks…especially the ones that bleed! Good god, what in the world are people thinking? We saw at least 3 of them on Van Ness, maybe 4, where we were trick or treating…not to mention all the other really creepy masks and bloody costumes. But those scream masks freak my kids out the most. I don’t blame them. Even if I hadn’t gotten tricked into seeing the first Scream movie years ago (I HATE HATE HATE slasher films…had no idea that’s what I was agreeing to), that mask is creepy with a capital C! And then they make them to bleed? I mean seriously, WHAT are parents thinking???? I saw kids that weren’t even that big wearing them!
I seriously question the rationale of a parent that would allow their children to dress in something that is so creepy and scary that you KNOW that it will scare other children who are trying to also enjoy the holiday. There were a lot of little kids out and about, and I’m sure that mine weren’t the only ones being scared by these things.
I don’t think we’ll be taking our kids to Van Ness anymore. There are HORDS of kids that go there…I’m guessing lots of parents drive their kids over there, as we did. It was so crowded that getting up to the houses and back again was a pandemonium. Popular neighborhood. I can’t imagine how much those people have to spend on candy to keep the kids happy. Probably why most houses only gave one piece of candy out per child. I don’t blame them. (Nor do I care, my kids don’t need that much candy.)
There seemed to be a large amount of creepy and gross costumes there. Not sure why that is, except perhaps the families that seem to not care about their kids scaring other kids might have been from some of the poorer neighborhoods, and came to Van Ness because its a wealthier neighborhood. I don’t blame them for coming there, that’s why we came there too. But I don’t know why it is that it seems like the poorer families tend to have more instances of kids in those creepy masks. Do they really just not care as much about how it affects others? Do they really not care about the message they send their kids, that its ok to do what they like and not to care about the little kids? Do they really not care that their kids even LIKE these sorts of scary/creepy/violent things? Are they already exposed to such violence that they don’t care if they wear a representation of it for fun? Is there more here than I’m getting? Is it not so much as I’m reading into it? I really don’t know, but I find it disturbing and I know we didn’t see hardly any of this sort of thing in my parents’ neighborhood in Clovis, which is a pretty well-to-do neighborhood and didn’t seem to have so many children brought in from other neighborhoods (other than us, LOL!) Not so many scads of children either, and just overall not so scary for my kiddos. We will be going there again next year, whether my parents are home or not, because I’m tired of the creepiness and traffic at Van Ness.
Anyway, am I the only one that cares that people are allowing their kids to make MY kids Halloween scary? My nearly 9yr old is more freaked by it than my 4yr old, because that’s her personality. She’s much more sensitive. But even Tyr was getting scared at times. There were even what looked like college students dressed as the members of Kiss towering over him that scared him. It was just overwhelming overall, I think. I need to remember all this next year and go to a different neighborhood.
But seriously…WHY do parents allow their kids to dress in those hideous masks, knowing that they will scare the little ones? Good god! THINK, PEOPLE! SHEESH!!
Glad Halloween is over now. I like Halloween but it is too much sometimes with all the negative stuff and creepy and scary stuff. Even I had a bit much of it this year. Now on to Maeven’s birthday.
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