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Crib notes: Special Halloween edition

News items, blog posts about kids and parenting from around the Web.High-tech Halloween: Trace your little costumed ghouls with the Trick or Tracker.Ghosts, goblins and … slutty pirates? When did Halloween get so tawdry?Costumes and candy: The joy of trick-or-treating with a toddler.Green Halloween: One mom’s unpopular plan to replace candy with sugar-free, eco-friendly treats.After a split: H
Our son Patrick is 17 months old and was a chicken for halloween this year. We thought he would be annoyed with the hood and want to take the costume off immediately. We were wrong...he loved the costume and the bonus for us is that is kept him warm during the Pumpkin Party that we attended! Everyone said he was the happiest chicken they had ever seen. We agree!
Our son Patrick is 17 months old and was a chicken for halloween this year. We thought he would be annoyed with the hood and want to take the costume off immediately. We were wrong...he loved the costume and the bonus for us is that is kept him warm during the Pumpkin Party that we attended! Everyone said he was the happiest chicken they had ever seen. We agree!
Lisa Poole / AP file / Today

News items, blog posts about kids and parenting from around the Web.

High-tech Halloween: Trace your little costumed ghouls with the Trick or Tracker.

Ghosts, goblins and … slutty pirates? When did Halloween get so tawdry?

Costumes and candy: The joy of trick-or-treating with a toddler.

Green Halloween: One mom’s unpopular plan to replace candy with sugar-free, eco-friendly treats.

After a split: Halloween as a shared custody holiday.

No yoke: Cracking down on Halloween eggings.

Looking back: The Halloween that ended my childhood.

H is for horrifying: Disquieting “Sesame Street”-themed Halloween costumes.

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