pslm23:

Tonight a lot of children and adults will dress up as some weird character and go from house to house collecting candy and celebrating halloween. A lot of homes have ghoulish scary decorations adorning their homes, inside and out, things like tombstones, spider webs, fake bones, fake bats, fake vampires etc.
As a Nigerian living abroad I do not personally celebrate this day with them because I look at it as a pagan thing. I don't know how Halloween started but it seems to be all about dead people and dead things. Just this morning I was at my local WAWA store and saw someone dressed like Ghaddafi complete with the black curly hair and cap. He even had some kind of red and white stuff smeared all over his face depicting blood and brain.

I remember how we celebrate occasions like Christmas and Easter in Nigeria and living in this country has opened my eyes to how different people here celebrate. For example, what has Easter got to do with a rabbit and eggs? As Easter approaches, you see rabbit/bunny outfits and painted eggs in every shop and people hiding eggs in gardens and parks. is that what Easter really means?

My question is this, would you as a Nigerian parent, allow your kids to celebrate Halloween and why?

Outstrip:

We do not celbrate Halloween. I am so proud of my boys. I thought they would have a hard time with seeing all the other kids dressed up and wearing their costumes but I heard them tell their friend at school when I went to pick them up that they do not celebrate halloween. "We celebrate fall" rotflmao is what my 4 year old said. It is encouraging because we are not going to do the typical christmas either. No gifts for that. I am happy that they understand that we do not participate simply because others do. Children are very smart and you are the one who sets the tone. For the most part they will follow

jennykadry:

LMAO. These kids are effing smart. Mine recently got an award for the best 1-50 counter . Anyways after they had handed him the award, see him trying to give a thank you speech, as if that one was not enough o, he started shaking his class mates hands after the speech. I almost fell out of the chair laughing

@Topic
God forbid bad ting, will never expose my kids to the devil, But thanks for asking anwayz

iice:

I like halloween.  Though i only participate when i'm in the mood. 

iice:

Wait, i stepped on a pally's toes shey?
And if i'm a broken record, it's shouldn't bother you since you're already bored.

eddy1977:

I love halloween. it gives me a chance to go out with my kid and hang out with my wonderful neighbors.when the other kids come knocking at my door, i feel so priviledged to give em candies and make em happy.

i understand and respect the choices of those who do not participate. its ok.
i live in a small town and halloween brings as together and makes our community much enjoyable.

Fhemmmy:

If it takes Halloween for you and your neighbors to hang out and for you to hang out with your kids . . .  something is missing

jidegirl12:

sorry its not for me but what is missing jare, there we go again with judging people, I dont get to see my neighbours too everyday and days like Halloween we get to have coffee (by the way I make the best pumpkin pie from scratch ,yum ) cos everybody wants to be home by evening to give out treats.

Fhemmmy:

You dont need Halloween to do all those you mentioned . . . Please note that i am not judging you oh, just trying to understand why you guys are only able to spend time at such days, cos according to you, it means you spend time with your kids and neighbors once a year, cos that day is only once a year . . . . . .

what irritates me most is people decorating their homes with horrible stuff.

jidegirl12:


lol, how is that possible to spend time with my kids just once in a year(is that sarcasm or what?), its just an excuse to spend time with a neighbor that's all, its sometimes difficult to do that on a normal day, as for kids its fun for them to dress up and stuff, they cant dress up like that outside home everyday?

speaking of decoration- there is this car in front of me last week that a hand is sticking out of its trunk and moving, scared the c rap out of me lol, and I saw that hand at the grocery store last sunday(seasonal aisle), the hand can actually talk, guess what it said? LET ME OUT OF HERE, HELP!! that was hilarious I tell ya, my kids will freak out. lmao