I too struggle. I hate halloween, but love fall. I love going to the pumpkin patch but hate my daughter is scared simply shopping at target...can't wait til november!!!
Lisa Lew
· 1 year ago
Hey Hoshy! Just wanted you to know that I really enjoy reading your blog. I found your prop. 8 blog and the responses to be very eye opening. It can be so hard in this day and age to hold onto biblical teaching, especially when it's not very popular. We are in the midst of struggling with Halloween ourselves. Usually we just go to a harvest festival of some kind, but this year our bible study wants to get together to go trick or treating. We are asking ourselves the same question, should we be participating in a holiday that celebrates death. Well thanks for being thought provoking and shining your light:)
Josh
· 1 year ago
@Lisa Lew - I really miss you guys! Arizona seems so far away, when we live 10 minutes from your old place in Sacramento! That's a tough call for you guys with the trick or treating. I think that it might be a while before we face that with my family given the fact that our church puts on a festival every year and as involved as we are, that's where we'll be. Of course as Jaden gets older and starts school next year, he'll have the influences of friends to open his eyes to the wonderfully sugar coated, lollipop land of trick or treating :-) Give me updated on your decision, I'm interested to hear what you guys do!
Crystal of Crystal's Randomnes
· 1 year ago
OK, so I kind of enjoy Halloween, but it hasn't always been so. When I was in 1st grade the school had a haunted house in the locked part of the basement. Just being in a place that was normally restricted, and then it being as decked out as it was made me so scared I literally lost my voice. I remember wanting to scream and nothing coming out. I just turned the other way and ran out. I didn't really participate in anything beyond harvest parties and trick-or-treating after that.
As an adult I love a good scare, but I think for kids too much is put out in front of them. They have such vivid imaginations, and it's so hard for them to draw the line between fantasy and reality sometimes, and things like this don't help.
I don't think I'd have kids participate in much of anything Halloween related. Living out in the country like I do I know I'm able to shelter more than someone who lives in the suburbs or the city. I think as a result a lot of people, to the detriment of their kids, just give up. There is this idea of not being able to protect them. But being a parent is a big job, I don't want to sound like the judgmental childless mother, but I do think some parents drop the ball in the department of protecting their kids and giving them the gift of actually having a childhood in this day and age.
I think your spiritual sensitivity to this 'holiday' is a blessed gift. You are a thinking dad who is going to look out for your children as a result. I think it shows that you have the heart of a believer. Some parents just don't have that type of spiritual guidance in their lives.
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As an adult I love a good scare, but I think for kids too much is put out in front of them. They have such vivid imaginations, and it's so hard for them to draw the line between fantasy and reality sometimes, and things like this don't help.
I don't think I'd have kids participate in much of anything Halloween related. Living out in the country like I do I know I'm able to shelter more than someone who lives in the suburbs or the city. I think as a result a lot of people, to the detriment of their kids, just give up. There is this idea of not being able to protect them. But being a parent is a big job, I don't want to sound like the judgmental childless mother, but I do think some parents drop the ball in the department of protecting their kids and giving them the gift of actually having a childhood in this day and age.
I think your spiritual sensitivity to this 'holiday' is a blessed gift. You are a thinking dad who is going to look out for your children as a result. I think it shows that you have the heart of a believer. Some parents just don't have that type of spiritual guidance in their lives.