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With a storm system set to barrel down on parts of Eastern Canada, Montreal mother Andrea Haid took to Twitter Wednesday appealing to the city’s mayor to postpone Halloween for a day.

After learning that the neighbouring suburb of Sainte-Julie had taken the step of delaying trick-or-treating until Friday, Haid said there was no reason why Montreal couldn’t do the same “to keep kids safe.” She told the National Post she had also created an elaborate costume for her 4-year-old son combining the Super Mario characters, Yoshi and Poochy, and didn’t want it to “melt” in the rain.

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“It’ll be miserable for everybody. It’ll be muddy and cold. What’s wrong with bumping it for a day?” she said.

Oh man, those poor kids are going to get soaked

While she waited for an official reply, one childhood development expert chimed in to express worry that we were seeing another manifestation of parents over-reacting and over-protecting children.

“This really is the wrong way to go. Far better to offer children manageable amounts of risk and responsibility,” said Michael Ungar, Canada Research Chair in Child, Family and Community Resilience at Dalhousie University.