Americans often gather with family or friends for holidays, taking part in rituals and traditions as diverse as eating special dishes, watching a football game, gift giving or reciting meaningful prayers and songs. Holidays occur throughout the year but Americans don’t look forward to each with the same amount of anticipation. When asked to think [ Read More ]
Halloween is one of the most exciting times of the year for children, but sometimes the most hectic for parents. Nearly 94 percent of children between the ages of four and twelve participate in Halloween activities each year. Tim Kang, actor from the hit CBS show The Mentalisthas partnered with the National Center for Missing [ Read More ]
It’s looking like a do-it-yourself (DIY) kind of Halloween this year, based on findings from a recent Bing-commissioned survey of Americans. According to the survey, nearly 40 percent of respondents indicated they are abandoning store-bought outfits for a DIY costume, with 43 percent of survey respondents believing that purchasing a Halloween costume you’ll wear for [ Read More ]
Scary masks, ghostly decor and haunted houses are enough to spook many adults this time of year, so imagine how frightening Halloween can be for children. To avoid unnecessary shrieks of terror, try to experience Halloween through the eyes of your child, suggests Deborah Best, a child psychology expert and professor of psychology at Wake [ Read More ]
Halloween is a celebration of make-believe, pumpkins, autumn, and most of all…candy. While kids wait all year for this holiday of endless sugar, it can often be a nightmare for parents. What is a parent to do if they are worried about tooth decay from all this candy consumption? Candy usually contains sugar, which is [ Read More ]
October 31 is celebrated around the world as a day of Halloween. Google has dedicated its homepage to this holiday too and to all who celebrate this “trick or treat” night. World’s most popular search engine’s logo will change once again with not just a single image but a sequence of five images, different colorful [ Read More ]
Saw 3D, the $20 million horror movie cuts it’s way to No1 in box office. The movie had it’s debut this weekend and the audiences rushed to see the final chapter of the Saw series in this special Halloween holiday. The “Saw” franchise is not as good as it used to be but, this final [ Read More ]
Halloween, besides Christmas, is one of the children’s favorite holidays. It’s history goes back many hundreds of years, until the time of the ancient Celtics. Halloween is the celebration that marks the end of the summer. Its origin goes back to a Celtic festival called Samuin that commemorates the ending of the “lighter half” of [ Read More ]