In my day when you went trick or treating in the small town I grew up in you were typically greeted by some nut with a real chainsaw or a homemade Freddy Kreuger Glove handing out whatever he had in his pantry: stale crackers, cans of soup, Christmas candy from the year before, you name it. If you were lucky you came across a “normal” house who actually gave out decent candy, but that was rare. We were a working class town and that was just how it was. When we would get home my dad would make us spread our score out on the kitchen table and he would give it a good inspection, taking out questionable items and his tribute as he went of course, typically the good snickers bars!
Don’t get me wrong. I understand food allergies, my son had them when he was young. But we never treated him any different than our other kids. We never coddled him or made him feel different or weaker. We just looked out for him as parents should. Eventually, he grew out of them and life moved on.
But Nowadays people have to literally put out a sign, like a teal jack-a-lantern, to ensure the world knows that they or their kids are different.
It seems Coddling kids is actually encouraged!
Is it any wonder the generation coming up are soft, weak and entitled?
I have said this many times but I think my generation, Generation-X, was the last generation where kids were truly allowed to just be kids.
After us Parents started becoming OCD about safety and cleanliness.
