A parenting trend where you purport to teach your kids about responsibility by stealing some of their candy or “levying a tax" on their trick or treat loot. The tax can be as much as one third of the candy "earned" on Halloween. The tax, which is levied mostly in jest, is meant to teach a lesson about how government works.

Anatidaephobia is defined as a pervasive, irrational fear that one is being watched by a duck. The anatidaephobic individual fears that no matter where they are or what they are doing, a duck watches.

Anatidaephobia is derived from the Greek word "anatidae", meaning ducks, geese or swans and "phobos" meaning fear.