The Halloween season means one thing for today’s parents: work. There’s costumes, there’s decorations and, if you follow parenting trends, there’s now convincing your kids to hand over their candy to the “switch witch.”
Modern parenting has all but killed the joy of Halloween, and our kids’ freedom along with it. But the Opinion writer Jessica Grose believes the spooky day doesn’t have to be so complicated. In this audio essay, she offers another approach to micromanaging holidays by letting kids’ imaginations run wild.
(A full transcript of this audio essay will be available midday on the Times website.)
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This Opinion short was produced by Phoebe Lett. It was edited by Kaari Pitkin. Mixing and original music by Sonia Herrero and Isaac Jones. Fact-checking by Mary Marge Locker. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta.
