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And it was so fun to go with my neighbors, and we go door to door, and it was just like, the best time, like, of my childhood. Like, I just had so Much fun. And to me, like, I never, ever in my life, probably until, like, my 30s, understood that Halloween was actually ever even evil or had evil, like, roots type whatsoever. And I just thought, everybody's trying to scare each other and whatever. To me, this is one of those things that if you put your foot down, your kids will be so annoyed because they have such a pure heart going into it, that your heart. Your kids will be so annoyed because they're going to be like, I just want to get candy with my friends. Like, why is that so wrong? To me, that's an opportunity where you have a kid that rebels. Like, when I. I think when you stop a child from doing something that they feel is so pure at the time, whether it's like, they want to dance to a song or they want to join tap or they want to dress up and go get candy, and they are like, really? I do. I. I don't think that they have ill intentions or ill will or nasty hearts when they're, like, on Halloween. Like, I think they literally just want to go with their friends and get candy. And to me, that's gonna be, like, one of those things where they go to school and they're like, your mom didn't let you trick or treat. And then they're gonna be like, yeah, my parents are crazy. Like, and so then it's like, now I know my parents are crazy now. Now I'm gonna not listen to my parents. Now I'm gonna go do what all my friends are doing because their parents are actually normal and my parents are not normal. Like, I don't know. There's just some things that I think, like. And I'm not saying because. But I think that you also teach your kids about the evil parts about Halloween and how we aren't. Like, we have rules and guidelines. Like, I don't let. First of all, Stella thinks that witch is, like, the worst word in the world. Like, she thinks the witch is, like, the B word. So, like, it's close. Yeah. So whenever somebody says which she goes, mommy says, I can't say that word because I don't. Like, I. I've been telling her since she was, like, 2 years old. I was like, you're not going to say the word witch. And I think it's because we watched a Disney show or something with a witch in it. And I said, that is a very bad person. I said, we do not say that word witch. She thinks it's a bad word. And whenever she sees, like, a witch costume or she sees it in the, at the mall, whatever. She always says those are bad people. Like, mommy, Mommy doesn't let me say that word. And so things like that, that I'm teaching her, like, we don't do evil costumes, we don't do scary movies, we don't do this or that. Like, you know, and the things that you teach them, obviously about Jesus, I feel like trump a lot of those other things, but I, I just feel like you have to be very careful with how strict you are with your kids. Like, even the Taylor Swift argument, Like, I saying, like, stella, you can't listen to Taylor Swift or like, your kids can't listen to Taylor Swift or something. You do what you do. But I think it's more about teaching your kid. Like, hey, Taylor Swift says this like, it's not right. Like, baby, don't listen to this song. And like, I, I hope that you learn to have that personal conviction like yourself and that you learn to, like, listen to things that, like, do they make you feel good or do they make you feel bad? And like, let them learn that and decide on their own instead of saying, you can't listen to yourself because, like, she's gonna be like, my mom and dad don't let me do anything. And that's when you get crazy. Kids that want to go party go crazy because they feel like they were so restricted.
