This is a repost of a post from one year ago. Nothing has changed so I will put it in front of you again. RS
This is October 31. In addition to its being the end of the month, it marks something called Halloween. When I was a child about half a century ago, I used to go freeloading with my little brother. We probably hit every house in an area of about a quarter mile and brought home a lot of calorie-laden food. We never thought twice about it. We never questioned the safety of the food. We never asked ourselves why would people we did not know or only knew vaguely would be all ready and apparently happy to give us candy or other treats. And when we found the occasional person who was not participating, we somehow felt that we were being deprived of something to which we were entitled. [And we somehow resented that our neighbors, almost all of whom attended Catholic school, would get the next day off and got to eat their stuff sooner.]
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Trick or treating is an aspect of childhood. Childhood is the essence of the entitlement mentality.
Hopefully parents ween their kids of the expectation that someone is there to take care of them. Ideally their parents also prepare them to be self-sufficient adults.
Thank you for the comment, d berg, at least as regards modern childhood. There was a time when a Richie Cunningham would have had to toil in the hardware store all day all year and John-Boy Walton would have so busy on the farm that he would have never had time to mix studies into his life,
I do suspect that modern parents do a poor job of weaning their children of the expectation, likely because they were not weaned well themselves.
RS
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