Zig Ziglar
if a teenager is at your door and they are wearing a costume!! please give them candy!! they are still in it for the halloween spirit and it honestly no different from a little kid in a costume. they are just as excited and happy as all the other lil tykes and dont you dare tell them they are “too old for trick-or-treating” because that will literally break their hearts and that’s not cool.
Its getting close to Halloween again so I just thought I’d reblog this again
And if “don’t be rude to teenagers over a stupid jawbreaker” isn’t enough for you, consider
- You can’t tell how old a kid is just by looking. I’ve known multiple 5th graders who were taller than I am, and I’m 25 years old. With their faces hidden by masks, you won’t be able to tell they’re elementary schoolers, but they still are.
- Lots of older siblings are expected to take their younger siblings trick-or-treating, and they only get paid in candy.
- You don’t know if that teenager is developmentally disabled.
- You don’t know if that teenager spent most of their childhood in a hospital or sick and has never had the traditional trick-or-treat experience before.
- You don’t know if this is that teenager’s first Halloween in America, and they just want to experience a piece of American culture.
- You don’t know if that teenager ever gets candy any other day of the year.
- You don’t know if that teenager has eaten anything at all today.
And those are just things I can think of off the top of my head.
This is important
(via petpluto)
