What Does Halloween Teach Children

Think about what children are taught to say on Halloween night. The phrase “Trick or treat” encompasses the idea of threatening neighbors with promises of “tricks” if their demands for “treats” are not met. It is preposterous to think that it is encouraged to teach a child that they can get what they want by blackmailing adults. This fosters the schoolyard bully mentality of

It is my belief that the lessons Halloween teach children are not socially acceptable. It endorses aggressive attitudes, disgraceful etiquette, and terrible eating habits. Halloween sanctions appetites of greed; the catch phrase “Trick or treat” has just become an excepted way for children to say “Gimme some candy before I use this rock to turn those nice windows of yours into central air”. In essence, Halloween gives children an excuse to forgo their manners and enter the community as greedy unpolished hoodlums.

“do it, or else!” Under normal circumstances this type of behavior would not be tolerated, but on Halloween we ignore its faults and look the other way. The fact that no action is taken to correct this misconduct subconsciously teaches children that this behavior is acceptable. (Weak argument, you contradict yourself a few times you say that no action is taken to correct the attitude

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