Re: What to do if you don’t want your kids celebrating Halloween?
I agree with you…but ppl have different ways of interpreting hence the “asking” becomes “begging” when it is not something that is condoned by an individual or group.
I always come to the same conclusion every year…
I grew up “celebrating” Halloween. I stopped “begging” for candies at/around the age of 9 or 10. 
Never in those years did anyone ever suggest to me or my parents that we were participating in a pagan ritual and therefore were outcasts from either the Islamic faith or the social circle. All the while that my parents permitted me to do this they practised the tenets of Islam inside and outside the home and ensured that I was educated in the same.
To this day I have never related trick-or-treating with any faith. Just as I don’t consider offering a Christmas Greeting to my Catholic neighbour as my indoctrination into their faith, I don’t see painting a cat face on my child as her right of passage to the Wiccan faith.
There are many improvements that I can make in my life and I hope that Allah will guide me to do so but by the same token, I refuse to accept that something as trivial is Halloween should be given the significance that it has been nowadays.