This Halloween, heed some safety advise from Jack, the talking pumpkin.
And here are some other helpful tips for keeping your kids safe this Halloween, courtesy of www.Halloween-Safety.com:

Help your child pick out or make a costume that will be safe. Be sure it is fireproof and that the eye holes are large enough for good peripheral vision.
If you set jack-o-lanterns on your porch with candles in them, make sure that they are far enough out of the way so that kids costumes won’t accidentally be set on fire.
Make sure that if your child is carrying a prop, such as a scythe, …read more

In my town most churches have banned Halloween and have “Fall Fests” instead. The kids aren’t allowed to wear costumes in school anymore.
No one trick or treats in my neighborhood.  There’s one neighborhood, the rich one, that gets all the trick or treaters bussed in. Trunk or Treat is the new thing, going to a safe church location to score candy.
It was way more fun to be a kid in the 1970s. My brothers and I got into our dad’s closet and decided who was going to be the pilot wearing my dad’s flight suit or a hobo, wearing his flannel shirt. My …read more