If you don’t celebrate Halloween what do you do about your child dressing up?

We don't celebrate Halloween but we also live in a country where it's not as much of a thing as it is in America. Kids don't dress up for school or have spirit week and even if they did we plan to homeschool so probably won't come across that hill. If my son asked to dress up and partake I'd explain what the holiday is and why we don't celebrate it and that would be that. He can dress up any other time for whatever reason he wants just not a holiday we don't celebrate. Growing up we'd attend a kids church event for Halloween and that was great, so maybe in the future if there's enough interest I'd organise something like that.

yeah our churches have like a fall festival and that’s always fun. If they have costumes at home and usually play with them would you still let them dress up on the 31st for like normal day to day stuff. Or because it’s Halloween your day no not today?

I mean if we're at home I don't see why not because it's just another day. We're not going out to trick or treat or engage in anything, so if they dress up on almost a daily basis I wouldn't say no because I feel like that's making it weird and putting too much importance on Halloween when that's not the intention at all.

My kids won’t dress up on that day, it’ll be just another day for us. I don’t want my kids thinking that they can partake in any shape or form or for dressing up on Halloween specifically is okay but trick or treating isn’t bc I feel they’ll grow up saying “if dressing up is fine, why going outside isn’t?”.

I also don’t come from a culture that celebrate Halloween but in parts of my culture, Halloween night is a highly occultic event where people perform witchcraft in broad day light. Something if Christians in the US saw tbh, they would never let their kids do anything Halloween related.

I’ll let my kids wear costumes or dress up tho just not on that day or for this holiday.

can I ask what parts of your culture did do it. What culture was it?

I’m Haitian. So some (a minority) practice voodoo and Halloween night is like a major spiritual night so there’s always a lot of rituals and crazy stuff going on. People stay indoors

I told my sons' teacher to exclude him from Halloween activities, I found out that they'd be reading Halloween stories all week, I was stuck cuz I didn't want him to be singled out every day, he's 4 and I didn't think it'd be fair on him. So I decided he could listen to them but he won't be going to school on Thursday to participate in the dance, dress up etc and we won't be celebrating at home either. It could be hard to navigate with little kids but trust you're doing the right thing

My kid is still to young to understand but thinking about the future I will definitely keep her away from anything related to Halloween . I will explain her the reason why and I am sure she will understand. Also I think that Christian lesson should be during all the year not just because of a holiday festivities .
I will keep her away from dressing up like a witch or horror staff all year not just at Halloween

Are there any verses you all use to back being both for or against. I was raised sda and went to an sda school I’m rediscovering my relationship with God now. I never celebrated as a child and my school would send us home early to be safe. They would also give out candy so we wouldn’t be tempted to trick or treat. As I person I think Halloween is such a cute idea. Adults rarely have “permission” to be silly. I love to see so many people get together and just do something stupid and fun. Like I saw this guy dressed as a traffic light in Times Square nd people were stopping for him. But as a Christian I also see how this can be lukewarm. I even have lil pink ghost painted on my nails rn and I didn’t even think of it as oh these are “spirits” until after I showed it to my partner. And I was like oh I guess they are. I want to be sure in why I do or don’t celebrate Halloween by time my son is in daycare or school though. I want to pray on this and ask God for guidance in my life.

have you look at the origins? But also, spiritually speaking is celebrating Halloween pleasing and glorifying to God? Cause at the end of the day it’s a relationship thing. Is it a holy thing? Is God pleased with things that mimic demonic stuff knowing that demons are real (Ephesians 6:12)
Some verses to consider:
1 Thessalonians 5:22
Romans 12:1-2
1 Corinthians 10:31-33
2 Corinthians 6:14-18
Mark 7:8

Yeah I’ve heard conflicting things about the origins too but Christmas I celebrate and that has pagan origins too. I don’t really “celebrate” now but thank you. And I’m going to pray about it and do some studying. I’ve never even put much thought into it