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WATCH: Three Ways Parents are Ruining Halloween

Lenore Skenazy and Jim Epstein | 10.29.2014 12:43 PM

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Happy Halloween! It's that time of year when your neighbors are secretly unwrapping candy, brushing lollipops with poison, and inserting razor blades into Snickers bars!

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Lenore Skenazy is president of Let Grow, a nonprofit promoting childhood independence and resilience, and founder of the Free-Range Kids movement.

Jim Epstein is executive editor of Reason.

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