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$\"\"$ We asked a couple of our awesome mamas: How does your family approach Halloween season?\u00a0 Following are their responses.<\/p>\n

S wrote: We, as a parent group at school, \u00a0request that the teacher have a Fall Harvest Celebration rather than Halloween. The primary reason is that the costumes are scary for little ones and the educational value is limited. Also, there are families that do not participate in the practice of Halloween. \u00a0Many parents of all backgrounds like the idea, especially since we do autumn crafts, try new autumn veggies, plan trips to the farm with hay rides and trail walks. Last year for the Autumn party, my son and I traced leaves on red, yellow and orange construction paper. We cut the leaves out and pasted them on white paper party cups for the drinks. It was so festive and the kids adored them. With older kids, you could also talk \u00a0about customs like salting meat for the winter, canning, sapping \u00a0and making preserves. So many possibilities, why limit them to just costumes and candy.<\/em><\/p>\n

F wrote:<\/p>\n

For me, Halloween is a tradition that teaches things I don\u2019t want my kids to learn- hoarding\/greed, scaring\/terrorizing people and dealing lightly with death (skeletons, ghosts).\u00a0 It\u2019s an unnatural-anti-fitra occasion. I try to go through a long explanation of these feelings with my children, in different forms with each new year\u2019s challenges. <\/em><\/p>\n

And from our discussion board<\/a>, U.O. wrote:<\/p>\n

My kids are 13 and 9; from pre-K to 2nd grade I would pull them out of school; so they don\u2019t see all the teachers and kids dressed up and parents coming in with all the yummy treats. It is better they don\u2019t see, so they don\u2019t feel left out or missing out on fun things. As they got older and understood why we don\u2019t celebrate, I let them attend the alternate (school) activity.<\/em><\/p>\n

K wrote about her experience sending her preschool age daughter to school on Halloween day:<\/p>\n

I explained (to my daughter) that one of the activities that was going to happen (at school) was that all the kids were going to go to different stations and collect healthy snacks, they were going to say \u201ctrick-or-treat\u201d and what that meant was you either give me a treat or I\u2019ll trick you (harm you). I asked her if she was going to harm anyone if they didn\u2019t give her something and she obviously said no. So I told her that a better idea would be to say, \u201cMay I have one please?\u201d She agreed and liked the idea walhamdulillah.<\/em><\/p>\n

Alhamdulillah, (my daughter) \u00a0visited all the stations and collected all the treats and every time she was reminded to say trick-or-treat, she would say, \u201cNo, I don\u2019t want to. Can I have one please?\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

(Later) I explained to her (teacher) that I spoke to my daughter in the car and suggested that she just ask for a treat. The teacher then asked if in the future it would then be more appropriate to have a harvest festival instead of Halloween? What a wonderful idea!<\/em><\/p>\n

How does your family approach this season?<\/p>\n

And don\u2019t forget to visit our discussion board for a deeper discussion of how to approach Halloween season!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"