Each year on Oct. 31 thousands of people dress up to celebrate the spooky holiday of Halloween. However, for teens, this holiday is not nearly as thrilling. During the frightening season, fewer and fewer kids go trick-or-treating. Some find it childish and some just find it boring. 

The energy leading up to the occasion is not as exciting as it once was. There are no more Halloween parties at school or movie days in classes. We no longer have that spark that would bring us to feel overjoyed about the festivities. Now, the traditions leading up to Halloween are going to pumpkin patches with your friends to take photos or carving pumpkins and sharing them on social media.

As the years pass by, our peers tend to follow what the newest “cool thing” is. The popularity of trick-or-treating has declined and teens have played a huge role in this change. We feel like adults and peers alike judge us. It is no longer cute to dress up as a fairy or a pirate unless it is an overly revealing costume and normal, appropriate outfits drift outside of the social norm. Many of us would rather not go trick-or-treating in the provocative costumes found today.

Halloween gets repetitive for teens. There is more to Halloween than trick-or-treating for us but it is still the same every year. Haunted houses, parties and scary movies are the things that we find appealing but those activities never change. The haunted houses reopen with the same attraction and the only scary movies we watch are reruns.

For some families, the celebrations and decorations stopped with the aging of their children. Many parents find it expensive and unnecessary as their child gets older. Halloween now can be used as another excuse to party, or for others, just another night in. As the innocent traditions of our childhoods end end it can be disheartening for some.  Although Halloween isn’t as exciting as it used to be, there are still ways teens can celebrate and bring back a little bit of the magic.