Prom night is here – and I have finally, decisively, turned into my mother | Zoe Williams

She always believed Halloween was an Americanism too far. What would she have thought about the rise of this US high school tradition in Britain? When I was young, and Halloween was just becoming a thing, and other people’s mums were doing fun stuff like blindfolding children and sticking their...

Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/30/prom-night-is-here-and-i-have-finally-decisively-turned-into-my-mother)