Parents who don’t happen to live in large neighborhoods can take their children to big, safe neighborhoods for tonight’s trick-or-treating, English said.

“Drive to bigger and well populated neighborhoods,” he said. “Don’t go to a street with just one house on it. Stay with your kids, keep an eye on them and carry two-way walkie-talkies if you have them.”

English is a father himself, and he’s taking his baby daughter trick-or-treating, but he isn’t taking her to just any neighborhood.

“My little girl is 16 months old, and we’re just going to take them to houses of people that we know,” English said. “We’re not going to take her to strangers’ houses. I really think that’s a good idea for all families, but some kids’ families are strewn about Middle Georgia, so they go to their neighborhoods and trick-or-treat. But if their parents can drive them to family members or friends houses, that’s what I recommend them do.”