My two sons, now 14 and 15, used to love trick-or-treating. I didn't realize how much I loved going with them until they stopped wanting to go. This year, I'll be handing out candy on the front porch ...

Halloween isn’t just for candy. Experts say trick-or-treating teaches kids conversation skills, safety, sharing, and self-control. Halloween is not just about candy and costumes. Child development ...

Editor's note: This is our friendly annual reminder that kids go trick-or-treating on Oct. 31. When should my kids go trick-or-treating? Every year, I ask that and end up having to look it up online ...

When my children were little, I was deeply irritated by older kids—kids that I arbitrarily decided were “too old” to trick-or-treat—coming to my door on Halloween. Didn’t they have better things to do ...

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This is a public service announcement so you can avoid being the neighborhood “Karen” or whatever the male equivalent may be: Don’t turn teenagers away on Halloween. Give them candy, no questions ...

Halloween night, around 9 o’clock. Perhaps even later. The wind whips, the branches wave. The candy bowl is empty. The doorbell has not rung for 90 minutes. And then… DING DONG! What infernal hell ...