A couple of years ago I figured out why kids dress up in costumes for going out for trick-or-treat night. Their parents make them.
And their parents make them dress up for a reason. You see, the parents probably don’t mind the kids going door to door getting candy, they just don’t want anyone to know that it is their kid.
Also, have you ever noticed that the parents typically stay away from the house and just send the kid to the door? Or if the kid is young, the parents will usually dress up too?
That’s so those at the door won’t recognize the kids or the parents. The parents don’t want people to know that their kids have gone out for trick-or-treat, and for very good reason.
It goes against what they taught their kid and might put them in a bad light as a bad parent. You see, parents usually teach their kids not to go up to a stranger and definitely not to take candy from a stranger. Then, on one night a year, all of that teaching goes out the window. They take their kids to strangers’ houses and let them take candy.
In short, in order to not get caught sending their kid out to a stranger’s house, and violating the “don’t take candy from strangers” teaching, parents make their kids dress up in costume for going out for trick-or-treat.
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