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I think it's hard to decide when its the right time to tell your child their to old especially if they are still acting as a child should act at the age of 10 and 11, and believe me I am very thankful for that. I didn't think my daughter was too old to go trick or treating seeing some of the other kids in the neighborhoods trick or treating until this past Halloween. We had so much fun I took both my daughter and little sister out trick or treating it was the last house that we decided to stop at considering it was getting late. The young woman answered the door and took a good look at my girls and stated "No, you guys are too old to be trick or treating." then she shut the door in their faces. I was in total shock. Of course it's her right to decline to give her candy away, it just really made my girls feel bad, they didn't understand and it left them feeling a bit angry. I sat and talked with them about maybe having that halloween night be the last time they did trick or treating, and that they could do parties instead. They were happy in the end and it didn't seem to matter much, even though they still talk about it.