Is Halloween Too Scary for Little Kids?

Little kids trick-or-treating

I don’t know how you all feel about this, but it seems to me that every year Halloween becomes more and more extreme. People decorate their houses with such gruesome, realistic looking characters like a bloody human head cute off, dangling from a body. Is this really necessary? Does anyone ever think about how smaller kids might feel when they go trick or treating and see these things?

Halloween decorations should be fun and a little scary. There’s a difference between creating a fictive, funny looking monster with googly eyes, than making it all look like a realistic crime scene. I truly believe that some children can be very effected by these gruesome scenes. No kids should become familiar with images like these, it’s very disturbing. I don’t understand why people have to go to such extremes now-a-days, in order to satisfy their need for entertainment.

Being a mom myself, I would like to see more of an age appropriate Halloween for kids. After all, isn’t trick-or-treating mainly for kids? Don’t you think it should be more kid friendly?