We chose not to have our children participate in Halloween nor to have Santa Clause be part of their lives at Christmas. If we were to do it all over again, I would change nothing about Christmas. We have a real battle to make sure our children know what Christmas is supposed to be about, and that gets harder every year. But I would change our prohibition on Halloween and allow them to dress up and go trick or treating. We bought all the hype about Satanic activity at Halloween. No doubt it is out there, but I think we can pretty easily protect our children from that, while still allowing them to have fun dressing up and going around so the neighbors can tell them how cute they are and bless them with some candy. We missed a chance to have some good fun, make some memories, as well as another chance to interact positively with the neighors.