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Children’s Culture at Halloween: Be More Than You Can Be

In case you are wondering where kids get their ideas for Halloween costumes, I have a modest proposal.  Consider the large sample in the small town of DeLand, Florida.  With over two thousand children dressed up on Halloween night in my neighborhood, I invite friends and students to join in the fun with a purpose: where do kids get their ideas for being Themselves 2.0 for a night of Trick-or-Treating? There is no baby boom in the neighborhood.  Instead, people converge from every neighborhood and nearby towns.  The result is a robust cross section of Americans, including large numbers of Read more