Trick or treating as a teenager has become controversial over the years. It is seen that teenagers are usually staying at home because they feel “too cool” for trick-or-treating, or they are partying. This is the stereotypical view on the subject as it’s become almost a tradition for teens to go out and party on these nights while all of the younger kids are out and about. However, what about the teens who truly do desire to go trick or treating?
Many may believe that trick or treating should be entirely for younger kids as the “magic” isn’t there anymore when you become older. It is almost like when kids believe in Santa until they become “too old” and eventually figure out the tradition. This applies to the idea of trick-or-treating as well. In fact, many parents and candy-givers themselves believe that teenagers are too old to go around, and they even are known to turn away teens as they approach the candy bowl. They might believe that the candy is meant for the enjoyment of the little ones and teens do tend to act a little mischievous on these occasions. For example, teens are known to take more than one candy piece, scare the other kids, and overall become obnoxious. However, this reputation ruins it for the teens who truly do just want to go out and have innocent fun trick-or-treating with family and friends.
To be fair, doesn’t it sound fun even as an adult to get to dress up and get free candy? It does for teens too! Many teens haven’t missed one Halloween night as the opportunity to get to dress up and enjoy the spooky traditions. Furthermore, Halloween isn’t too major of a holiday to begin with as for some believe Halloween can seem lame. Without trick-or-treating, is Halloween really even as fun as we think? Of course, spooky season comes with many different activities like pumpkin patches come into season, and haunted houses. But it’s definitely a lot more fun when you have the actual day of Halloween to look forward to.
Halloween is most definitely a holiday that should be widely celebrated amongst all ages, after all, teens are still children when you think about it. Teens don’t deserve the hate about going out on Halloween to celebrate. Especially teens who genuinely would like to enjoy their Halloween evening and get to share some candy whilst spending time with friends and even family members. Let’s not forget about teens and let’s not ruin Halloween for kids themselves.
