Who says costumes are just for Halloween? Kids have always loved to dress up, and frankly, so have a lot of adults. Â For many kids and adults one Halloween day a year is hardly enough to satisfy one’s urge to hide behind makeup or a mask and take on the attributes of another person (or …
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Boo!  It’s Halloween, the day when pumpkins prevail, werewolves and witches win, and ghosts are all good!  While the commercialism of this hallowed eve has certainty grown over the years, with everyone seemingly looking to scare up some Halloween business, it still remains one of the most pure FUN days of the year.  What was mostly a …
Continue reading 5 Last Minute Tips For A Happy HalloweenI was going to post a story here to share with your kids, but I posted the only kid’s story II have had published that is scary last year…in case you missed that you can find Cat Candles Here: CAT CANDLES If you are in the mood to have someone tell you a story… I …
Continue reading This One is for the Dads … Two storiesSince tomorrow is Halloween, and it’s a Saturday, a lot of you will be carving your pumpkins. Please, don’t carve a boring one. We’re Dad-o-matic dads. We don’t carve boring pumpkins. You may think it is difficult to carve a cool pumpkin, but it’s not. Like most things, all you need are the right set …
Continue reading Stop Carving Boring PumpkinsOne of the best perks of being a parent is raiding your kids’ Halloween candy when they are asleep. Of course, my daughter is only eleven months old, so I am still in the unenviable position of actually having to buy candy. What a drag. The only thing worse than having to buy your own …
Continue reading The Top 5 Worst Halloween Treats EverKids’ costumes in modern times have gone from sickly sweet to just plain sick. A walk down the dripping, splattered, fake-blood-soaked Halloween aisle of your favorite drugstore proves a point last heard in 2000: Gore wins the popular vote.
When I went online to find my kids costumes, I found life-like swords and machetes, clear masks that filled up with blood, and a variety of disembodied heads and severed limbs. I saw a “zombie doctor” costume with “PVC rotting chest, pants with rotted knee, zombie mask, surgical mask, surgical cap and latex gloves” that came in size 4-6!
Continue reading Why Are So Many Kids Halloween Costumes So Inappropriate?Times have certainly changed. My wife and I struggle with how to give our kids the same kind of Halloween we experienced as kids. The Halloween of our childhood has sadly passed us by. Instead, the mall offers trick or treating, we cart the kids around to relatives houses, and we keep some candy in …
Continue reading Trick or Trunk?Halloween is one of the greatest holidays. Like most holidays, it has its share of commercialism, but it doesn’t come with the obligations, guilt, and travel headaches of Christmas. Dressing up. Getting candy. Having fun. What more could a kid ask for? Unfortunately, a small segment of Adultitis-ridden do-gooders continue their assault on Halloween. It’s …
Continue reading The Scariest Part of Halloween: The Grown-Ups!It is the morning after Halloween and the house is quiet, save the occasional whine or bark of one of the dogs. In the kitchen there are no plastic pumpkin pails or bright orange bags filled with candy. There are no empty wrappers for me to pick up off the floor, left strewn about by …
Continue reading Bitter SweetsThe picture of my “Vampire Weekend†above was taken on Halloween probably 16 years ago. The two little bloodsuckers with me in the photo are now 20 and 18 years old. Time flies when you are having fun, and we were definitely having fun! Halloween may be a scary time, but I think that as …
Continue reading Fangs For The Memories!I’m going to admit it: I hate Halloween. There, I’m out of the closet, and for the record: I don’t like chocolate, or what having a sack of the stuff laying around for a few days does to my sugar junkie kids. Heck, by election day I’ll need to send them to glucose rehab. How …
Continue reading The Halloween Costume – It'll Give You NightmaresBoo! With Halloween around the corner, this is a good time to address the art of scaring the bejesus out of your kids!  As someone who worked as a camp counselor for many summers, and who has three kids of my own, I feel I am highly qualified to share some tips on telling a …
Continue reading How To Tell A KILLER Scary Story!It’s that time of year again, when parents have to avoid drug stores and Wal-Mart as often as possible, if only to get away from multiple requests for a second costume, or another set of make-up, or a third pumpkin carving kit. It’s also the time of year when we look at costumes that are …
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