Yet here we are, two days away from Halloween, when everything we say about strangers gets thrown out the window. On Halloween night, for those who observe it instead of, or perhaps in addition to, fall festivals at churches, our kids will dress up with our help. Heck, we'll even make most of the costumes. They'll turn into ghosts, goblins, Cinderellas, Ninja Turtles, Darth Vaders and characters out of Harry Potter novels. We send them forth to knock on strangers' doors.
Unknown adults open the doors and offer our kids candy.
Our kids take the candy from strangers. Oh, yes, every once in a while, the door opens and healthy food like apples or raisins are offered, but the kids. We tell our kids to do one thing, then one night a year we let them do the exact opposite. Not the kids. They're merely confused.