tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post3365965581864060110..comments2024-03-27T23:28:20.274-04:00Comments on Face to Face: Trick-or-treating as a measure of community cohesionagnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-79272533833638796802013-11-01T02:45:04.556-04:002013-11-01T02:45:04.556-04:00I don't see the decorations as a very strong m...I don't see the decorations as a very strong measure of cohesion, at least compared to the guest-host thing with trick-or-treating. Decorations are impersonal, don't involve interacting with your neighbors, or even seeing them.<br /><br />It's like, "Well, gotta do something, might as well put up some decorations."agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-36753114236035441872013-11-01T02:04:12.651-04:002013-11-01T02:04:12.651-04:00Good post on Halloween. I think this is might expl...Good post on Halloween. I think this is might explain the nose dive in Halloween in my town. Kids rarely socialize with one another, anyway, where I live. This year I got zero kids at the door. What goes against your neighborhood cohesion is that I counted more house with decorations up this year than in 2012. The more decorations that go up, the less kids I seem to get.<br /><br />2011: Less decor. Nine kids.<br />2012: More decor. Five or so kids<br />2013: Even more decor. Zero kids.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-3285038484874920222011-09-28T18:23:37.619-04:002011-09-28T18:23:37.619-04:00All kids should go to either public or private sch...All kids should go to either public or private schools... Just my thoughts..John Greenhttp://www.ashevillencrealty.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-49048971026453759232011-09-27T03:41:57.604-04:002011-09-27T03:41:57.604-04:00"I did notice a distinct drop off in kids as ..."I did notice a distinct drop off in kids as a candy-giver though, and it kept starting earlier and earlier. "<br /><br />Something else I didn't think of is not just how many kids are out, but how hovering their parents are.<br /><br />At one extreme, the parents don't hover at all -- they just send them out and totally trust the neighbors. At the other extreme, they don't let them go out. In between, the parents allow them to go out, but only under their own supervision.<br /><br />Somewhere in the mid-'90s it became common for parents to start accompanying every group of kids. First they'd just wait at the end of the driveway and coach them, but by 2010 the lone kid was followed by his parents all the way up, always within arm's reach.<br /><br />That was just about non-existent in the '80s and early '90s. Your parents waited at home for you to come back, and they'd ask to see how big your haul was. Other than helping you get your costume on right, that was the extent of their involvement.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-41482712309761780702011-09-27T01:46:46.641-04:002011-09-27T01:46:46.641-04:00I was trick or treating in the early/mid 90s and i...I was trick or treating in the early/mid 90s and it seemed like just about everywhere had candy/decorations etc (though candy-givers dressing up was unusual). Might depend on the neighborhood though. I did notice a distinct drop off in kids as a candy-giver though, and it kept starting earlier and earlier. I had though it was supposed to end very late into the night (it was a bonus to find someone when everybody else was going to sleep), but it started ending many hours before bed. I think the schools or other local government started issuing approved times and curfews.TGGPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11017651009634767649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-38859354693527395012011-09-26T22:39:35.787-04:002011-09-26T22:39:35.787-04:00Are you against the homeschooling movement then?Are you against the homeschooling movement then?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-48213965354831932092011-09-26T22:39:06.167-04:002011-09-26T22:39:06.167-04:00So what can be done about this "dissolving of...So what can be done about this "dissolving of community bonds." How to forge them?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-88295762622198221282011-09-26T19:06:51.726-04:002011-09-26T19:06:51.726-04:00Have you read John Gatto or John Holt on the subje...Have you read John Gatto or John Holt on the subject of home-schooling or unschooling?<br /><br />Anyhow, the increase in home-schooling could be explained according to the hypothesis of declining social interaction, but I would attribute it (at least as regards home-schooling here in the UK) to a growing dissatisfaction with the standard of education provided by state schools, and the reluctance of middle class parents of modest means - who can't afford houses in the right areas - to have their children associate with the social undesirables that are legion in parts of England.Caligarinoreply@blogger.com