Is Trick or Treating Safe?

Every year when October rolls around every person can see the signs that Halloween is approaching. Some people love this holiday and go all out by decorating their house with the scariest decorations and dressing up in the most elaborate costumes. A lot of others just blow it off like it is just any other day. No matter if Halloween is your most favorite or least favorite holiday everybody knows about the tradition of trick or treating. In the olden days people would be given “soul cakes” whenever you knocked on the door instead of candy. These cakes were distributed as a way of saying a prayer for the family and their deceased loved ones who received. As time has gone along candy has replaced the distribution of cakes. After years and years of children receiving all kinds of candy parents now have to worry about their children receiving poisonous treats. It is so sad to think that some people in this world have ruined one of the greatest traditions the children get to experience. Every year children look forward to the free candy, and parents can’t wait to see their kids all excited and dressed up. It is such a disappointment that it might all come to an end because of a few sick people who would want to hurt innocent strange children just because they think they can get away with it. Even if this is not very common for children to receive poisoned candy it has happened enough for it to be a worry in the back of parents’ minds. It is ridiculous that something so fun has to be spoiled because of some people’s actions. I’d rather be safe than sorry when it comes to children or my own, life but the frustration that the holiday will never be the same will always bother me.