Parents, if you are going to allow your child to dress up as a character known for their roguish and mischievous behavior this Halloween season, you should at least make sure they are dressed up as the right character.

If you look at the iconic “Peter Pan” costume, you’ll see that it’s not even close to being a proper Robin Hood outfit. The green tights, feathered cap and little shoes certainly aren’t anything that would be worn by a heroic outlaw. Honestly, the only thing Peter Pan has in common with Robin Hood is that both characters live in Sherwood Forest. Well, I guess they both also like bows and arrows, but other than that they are quite different.

I know what you’re thinking: If Peter Pan isn’t Robin Hood, then who is he? My parents told me that he was an angel sent down from heaven to watch over me while I slept. But that’s one of many stories about Peter Pan (who never grows up). The truth is much more interesting. In “Peter and Wendy,” J.M. Barrie describes him as a boy from Neverland who can fly and fights pirates with his friend Tinker Bell and the Lost Boys. What a silly story!

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When it comes to dressing up, people are often very particular about what they would like to be. If you were to ask a child what they wanted to dress up as for Halloween, you might be greeted with a flood of ideas that you would have never even thought of.

Although I am not a parent myself, I do understand the importance of making sure your child is safe while trick-or-treating on Halloween night. A lot of things can happen during this time of year.

But there is one thing I would like to ask parents: if you are going to allow your child to dress up as a character known for their roguish and mischievous behavior this Halloween season, you should at least make sure they are dressed up as the right character.

As we’ve already told you, there is a very real chance your child could be mistaken for a street urchin and/or ruffian while dressed up as Peter Pan this Halloween. And while that can be a little embarrassing, it’s nothing compared to the humiliation you’ll feel if your child is mistaken for a villain.

If you’re going to allow your child to dress up as the villainous Captain Hook, you know that they will get mistaken for the hero of J.M. Barrie’s classic play Peter Pan. This is because of the simple fact that all kids know who Peter Pan is and think he’s awesome, but no kid really cares about Captain Hook unless he’s being played by Dustin Hoffman or Jason Isaacs or someone else really good at acting.

So if your child dresses up as Captain Hook, they will most likely be referred to as “Peter Pan” throughout the night. If your child is very young and doesn’t understand why this is bad, this may lead to some discomfort and confusion when he goes up to trick-or-treaters’ houses and holds out his bag only to have them cheerfully say “Peter Pan!” repeatedly in his face.

The costume your child is wearing does not look like that of Peter Pan. It looks like that of Captain Hook.

Peter Pan costumes are, for the most part, green and include a hat, a vest, short pants, tights and buckled shoes. Captain Hook costumes are black, have a cape and a hat with a feather and include a hook for one hand. The characters may be similar in some ways, but they are very different in others. The main difference is that Captain Hook is a pirate with a hook for one hand who wants to kill Peter Pan with said hook and Peter Pan is an elf who doesn’t want to grow up who has never met Captain Hook or anyone else who has had their hand bitten off by a crocodile.

I understand that you want your child to look nice this Halloween season but they do not look nice when they are dressed up as the villain of the story they claim to be the protagonist of. If you want your child to dress as the villain then there are plenty of options available including Dracula, Voldemort and Edward Scissorhands. If you want them to dress as the hero then there are many other options available including Harry Potter, Batman and Superman. I would also like to point out that Peter Pan was written by

If you have a toddler that isn’t quite ready to trick or treat by themselves this Halloween season, they are going to need the guiding hand of a responsible adult. For some parents, this means dressing up as the Disney character Peter Pan. A cute costume for a kid and an adult, but there is just one problem: Peter Pan is a child molester.

As explained in the video below by the YouTube channel Wisecrack, Peter Pan is not someone we should be following around on Halloween night. In fact, he’s not even someone we should be allowing our children to dress up as. Instead of being a hero in NeverNeverland (the land in which kids never grow up), Peter Pan is an immoral villain who takes advantage of kids who don’t want to grow up. This includes stealing their families and turning children into his personal army.

That’s right, NeverNeverland is essentially a children’s concentration camp! One day they’re happily playing with toys and eating ice cream, the next they’re training for battle in hopes of killing Captain Hook. You know what kind of person uses children to fight their battles? That’s right, child molesters!

I don’t know if I’ve shared this story with you before, but when my daughter was 2 years old, we dressed her up as Peter Pan. We saw that the costume was available at our local Halloween store and thought that it would be cute. She’s a fan of fairy tales, so we assumed she’d be a fan of Peter Pan.

I can count on one hand how many people recognized the costume. And that’s because it was the wrong Peter Pan. She wasn’t dressed up as Peter Pan from Peter Pan (above), she was dressed up as Peter Pan from Hook (right).

This mistake is understandable considering that the costume looked more like the character from Hook than it did the character from Peter Pan. But I’m glad I checked before we left home.

If you’re planning to dress your kid up as Captain Hook, there are any number of costumes you can use: Captain Hook, Captain Kurtz (Apocalypse Now), Captain Jack Sparrow, Captain Morgan or Captain Crunch. As long as you’re not dressing them up like Captain Ahab (Moby Dick), I think they’ll be okay this Halloween.

Unless you are one of the few people in the world who do not know, Peter Pan is a fictional character from the book written by J. M. Barrie, which was published in 1911. His first onscreen appearance was in a play of the same name in 1904, and then again in 1924 with a silent film featuring Betty Bronson as Peter Pan. The first film with sound, which featured Mary Martin made its debut in 1955, and is probably the best known adaptation of this story.

Peter Pan has been played by many famous actors including: Douglas Fairbanks, Bobby Driscoll, Danny Kaye, Mary Martin, Jason Isaacs and Jeremy Sumpter just to name a few. He is the boy who never grew up and his adventures have delighted children of all ages for years. He lives in Neverland with his band of Lost Boys and Tinkerbell and they are often visited by Wendy Darling and her brothers John and Michael. Captain Hook is their sworn enemy as he is responsible for cutting off Hook’s hand and feeding it to the crocodile that follows him around trying to get more of him to eat!