I am heading out to buy my children Halloween costumes.  We have many, many costumes so I don’t need that many, but I do need some accessories and my daughter needs a costume.  Wish me luck finding her something that doesn’t make her look like a streetwalker.

This  might make sound really geriatric, but what happened to the basic witch costume or being a set of dice with a friend or a cat.  Or any other homemade costume?

I even had trouble finding a costume for  myself this year.  I wanted to be a witch.  A basic no frills, black dress, pointy hat witch.  I had to repeat the sentence, “No, I don’t want to be a sexy witch,” more times that should be allowed in a normal persons life.  And still the salesperson kept bringing me costumes that would be more aptly called Hooker Witch.

And while the costumes for girls have gotten smaller  and sluttier, the costumes for the boys have become more and more gory.

The violent costumes bother me even more and I am not alone.  In our house I have the rule that dressing up as a serial killer is not allowed.  I am not sure why someone would want their young child dressing up as the Texas Chainsaw Massacre killer or Freddy Kruger. 

Several years ago we had to stop attending a town sponsored Halloween party because it became too frightening.  It was a party geared for young elementary school children, so kids between the ages of 5-11.  The final straw for me when we were on a hayride looking at all the “spooky” decorations someone jumped out of the darkness with a bloody chainsaw, chased after the hayride and grabbed someone off of the hayride.  Traumatized children anyone?

I wonder what happened to children being children.  What is the rush to grow up so fast?