How to Tell If Your Kid is Old Enough for a Haunted House

Like most things child-related, there’s no specific age of haunted-house-readiness. “It’s not like ‘ready to go into a haunted house’ is a developmental milestone,” explains Dr. Heather Bernstein, a clinical psychologist in the Mood Disorder Center at Child Mind Institute. “All kids are different, and all kids are ready for things at different ages.”