Dd asked her age while trick or treating last night

[FlightlessDuck]

I wonder what that neighor's DIS name is...

 

[nugov2]

I don't know - the fact that she went trick-or-treating with her boyfriend, that kind of makes me feel they are too old to trick or treat. If you are making out (or even more) with a guy, maybe you are too 'mature' to trick or treat?

What does that have to do with it? This is just an odd standard to measure if you are too old to trick or treat.

I don't get why people care if teens are trick or treating. If they are respectful and enjoying themselves who cares. That goes for any holiday tradition or any activity meant more for kids (pretty much all of wdw), but are also enjoyed in a respectful by those just young at heart. If you want to go to the park and swing on the swings go ahead as long as you aren't being rude. Life is too short to worry about dictating what people should be enjoying or to not do things you want because others view you as too old when it comes to situations lIke this.

I actually see lots of teens getting their picture taken with Santa at breakfast with Santa and we take a family shot every year. I'm sure some do get it done at the mall. No different than getting pictures with characters at wdw.

I also have a lot of friends with freshman and they all trick or treated and then went to hang at their friends when it got later. I'm glad they still want to be outside and having fun and am the opposite in that it makes me happy seeing teens just being out having fun with their friends vs other things they could be doing. I'm glad we live in an area where most still do and anyone under the age of 14 not trick or treating is very outside the norm.

 

[mom2rtk]

Maybe kids are just growing up faster with the advent of smart phones and the digital age, but I don't see many middle-school aged kids out trick-or-treating anymore.

That's part of the reason I enjoy seeing the older kids trick or treating.

 

[nugov2]

That's part of the reason I enjoy seeing the older kids trick or treating.

Me too and actually find it sad that 11, 12 and 13 yr Olds are even considered too old by both parents and the kids themselves. I can see why some don't want to once they reach high school but middles school. ..that makes me sad. Maybe I do now and did as a kid grew up in a weird area, but as I said in my pp post middle school kids trick or treating is more the norm vs not.

 

[Disneylover99]

You're never too old to trick or treat.

 

[castleview]

I hate to say that is something my mother would do...or she'd be upset if she thought your costume was lazy. Anyway, it never bothered me if a kid seems to old (and kids are tall these days btw) or came up with a costume two hours before trick or treating. I actually thought it was funny when two teenagers on my street trick or treated, went home to change into a different costume and then went house to house down the same street again.

 

[jen0610]

DD18 is a senior this year and she and her best friend, took the besties younger siblings and cousins out ToT. The girls had pumpkin buckets and dressed up. No one turned them away. They actually had several families tell them that they were the most well behaved of all the groups they had gotten. Thank you's, yes please, and have a nice evening from them all. The girls made sure little kids minded their p's and q's.

 

[Praying Colonel]

I gave candy to a Mom who was trick or treating with her child. They were both dressed up & I thought it was cool they were doing it together.

 

[MrsJackSparrow4Life]

Comparing holiday gifts with trick or treating is a major stretch.
Comparing it to going to on a Disney vacation (as others have done) is also a major stretch.

I love how posters here switch from 18 year olds beng fully responsible adults to still children. They even do it with older teens (like 16 year olds). Read a thread about 18 year old doing something wrong and it's all about them being an adult but in this thread 18 is still a teen who should trick or treat if s/he wants.

How so? We have many people on this board who go on adult only Disney vacations.... a vacation that someone who is not a Disney fan would feel is "for children only." I have had many people who don't know how young at heart I am, ask me why I would go to a kids only vacation destination? To them Disney is for kids and I am not normal.

To you ToT is for kids only and older kids/young adults doing it is not normal. Other people who are big Halloween fans see no problem with it (as can be seen on this thread and the 100's of others over the years).

I see no difference in either scenario.

 

[sunshinehighway]

How so? We have many people on this board who go on adult only Disney vacations.... a vacation that someone who is not a Disney fan would feel is "for children only." I have had many people who don't know how young at heart I am, ask me why I would go to a kids only vacation destination? To them Disney is for kids and I am not normal.

To you ToT is for kids only and older kids/young adults doing it is not normal. Other people who are big Halloween fans see no problem with it (as can be seen on this thread and the 100's of others over the years).

I see no difference in either scenario.

Disney World isn't a kids only destination though. If people that, they are uninformed about what there is at Disney World.
I go without kids. It's a different vacation than when I'm there with kids.
Also, some for some people going to Disney is something they've always wanted to do and maybe they only go once so they do feel like a kid again. I can understand that.


You also have people in this thread talking about middle schoolers as the older kids. 16 and 18 is (hopefully) not close to being in middle school so that doesn't really count. You also have people talking about teens who took younger siblings out trick or treating. Yeah that's not the same thing either.

I actually find it typical of here and hilarious that people are acting like it's totally normal for a 16 and 18 year old couple to decide to trick or treat.

 

[Hrhpd]

All those other things you mention aren't traditions for children though.
Since Christmas was brought up, would you really think it was totally normal for a 16 or 18 year old to celebrate Christmas by writing letters to Santa and going to the mall to tell Santa what they want for Christmas?
There does come an age where you are too old for something.

I don't see any difference with going to the mall to see Santa with an adult going to a theme park to see and get a similar type of character's autograph.

That is probably why I think seeing adults in a character line as a bit strange. If you wouldn't go stand in a line in a mall to sit on Santa's lap, why would you stand in line to see a Disney character?

But, to each their own. It is making them happy and they are not hurting anybody else. But for those who are going to bristle that I think an adult standing in a character line is too old, that is exactly what some are doing here by saying they think adults are too old to trick or treat. You are putting your own spin on things and judging others. While I may silently think to myself that somebody is too old to do something, I will never begrudge anybody doing it. I give out candy no matter what. In fact, I said earlier I actually enjoyed the teens more this year than the little children.

 

[BadgerGirl84]

Well if you are intending the bleep to be a curse word towards my dd's bf than I find that insulting and rude of you.

I think it's clear that the term "grown-bleep man or woman" is describing the person's age as one of an adult...and not calling that person by any swear or curse. I'm not sure how it could be interpreted otherwise.

 

[MrsJackSparrow4Life]

Disney World isn't a kids only destination though. If people that, they are uninformed about what there is at Disney World.
I go without kids. It's a different vacation than when I'm there with kids.
Also, some for some people going to Disney is something they've always wanted to do and maybe they only go once so they do feel like a kid again. I can understand that.


You also have people in this thread talking about middle schoolers as the older kids. 16 and 18 is (hopefully) not close to being in middle school so that doesn't really count. You also have people talking about teens who took younger siblings out trick or treating. Yeah that's not the same thing either.

I actually find it typical of here and hilarious that people are acting like it's totally normal for a 16 and 18 year old couple to decide to trick or treat.

To you and me and others like us but to people who are not Disney fans, it is a place to take your kids. We are not normal to them and there is nothing you can do to change their minds about it.

We have always had people of all ages ToT in my neighborhood growing up. I went ToT with friends until I was 18 years old, as did the other kids at my school. The only reason I didn't go at 19 was I was pregnant. It never even occurred to me age would be an issue until I started posting here.

 

[MrsJackSparrow4Life]

I don't see any difference with going to the mall to see Santa with an adult going to a theme park to see and get a similar type of character's autograph.

That is probably why I think seeing adults in a character line as a bit strange. If you wouldn't go stand in a line in a mall to sit on Santa's lap, why would you stand in line to see a Disney character?

But, to each their own. It is making them happy and they are not hurting anybody else. But for those who are going to bristle that I think an adult standing in a character is too old, that is exactly what some are doing here by saying they think adults are too old to trick or treat. You are putting your own spin on things and judging others. And yes, I completely acknowledge that I silently judge adults who are standing in character lines without little children with them.

Exactly! I see nothing wrong with either but there are people who would have an issue with an adult standing in line to get a character's autograph without a child present.

 

[mamamary]

I think it's clear that the term "grown-bleep man or woman" is describing the person's age as one of an adult...and not calling that person by any swear or curse. I'm not sure how it could be interpreted otherwise.

Not clear and I still think it's a rude reply. My opinion.

 

[sunshinehighway]

I don't see any difference with going to the mall to see Santa with an adult going to a theme park to see and get a similar type of character's autograph.

That is probably why I think seeing adults in a character line as a bit strange. If you wouldn't go stand in a line in a mall to sit on Santa's lap, why would you stand in line to see a Disney character?

But, to each their own. It is making them happy and they are not hurting anybody else. But for those who are going to bristle that I think an adult standing in a character line is too old, that is exactly what some are doing here by saying they think adults are too old to trick or treat. You are putting your own spin on things and judging others. While I may silently think to myself that somebody is too old to do something, I will never begrudge anybody doing it. I give out candy no matter what.

You are silently judging others so I don't really see a difference.
Never once have I said I would be rude or unkind. I never even said I'd refuse to give them candy. I simply said trick or treating at that age is not normal. The Op is the one that put it out there.

 

[Hrhpd]

You are silently judging others so I don't really see a difference.
Never once have I said I would be rude or unkind. I never even said I'd refuse to give them candy. I simply said trick or treating at that age is not normal. The Op is the one that put it out there.

You are right, I do silently judge. And there have been plenty of people that have said no costume or too old, no candy.

 

[littlejimmy]

I give candy to anyone that comes to the door, but quite honestly, I cant imagine a 18 year old trick or treating.

 

[wvjules]

I don't think I would ask the age of a ToTer but I would think it odd for someone that is old enough for me to want to ask to be ToTing in the first place. No matter how you slice it, an 18yo ToTer is strange. That is an adult. ToTing isn't for adults.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

I was kind of bummed DD15 didn't want to do it. Growing up too fast The past couple of years, I know she was just keeping her sister company, but this year she didn't even bring a bag.