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Easter Egg Hunt - How irritating


mckayleesmom wrote: We just got back....What a joke. Im sorry but when they say that parents of children 0-4 are allowed to walk with their children to pick up eggs....Thats fine with me, but when infants have full baskets of eggs and my 2 kids combined have 5 eggs....thats is called parental greed. What are infants going to do with a basket full of eggs? Your an adult...go buy a flippin bag of candy.

Don't get me wrong...I think infants should be allowed to participate too, but we all know who picks up the eggs...the parents, and when I see 2 parents hording up all the eggs away from toddlers, I find it disgusting.


Next year...we will do our own egg hunt.

mckayleesmom replied: anyone else have this problem??

Bee_Kay replied: No, I haven't. We've always had our own easter egg hunt in our home with our children.

That really sucks for the older kids. I understand having infants participate, but the parents should know better.... take one or two for your baby's amusement, but leave the rest for the toddlers to hunt for and enjoy the excitement of finding them!!!!

JMHO

danahas4monkeys replied: we do our own hunt at the family get together. Some people just dont care its just like the teenagers who go trick or treating and ruin it for the little kids. Then they wonder why people dont hand out anymore!

Dana

MyBrownEyedBoy replied: We are going to our church one in a few hours, I will post how it went then. Hopefully, since it is church sponsored, it will be good and parental greed won't take over.

gr33n3y3z replied: yep thats when we made it our last town Easter Egg Hunt
you would have the parents dragging the kids behind most off the ground just to get a egg with a piece of candy in it.

Most of the people dont even live here they just come down for Easter and the weekend.

mom21kid2dogs replied: Jmo, but you ought to at least be walking to be in an Easter Egg hunt. We've never taken O to the city one. (we live in a town of 12,000) They are brutal. Kids push, shove, parents egg it on~crazyiness. It that one was our only option Olivia would never attend one. We always have one at our house on Easter Sunday with whatever kids in the neighborhood want to come plus cousins that are here. We take O to one at a nursing home where we know the residents~it's small and nice. She just got back infact. She only found one egg (her version was "I didn't catch any eggs, mom!) but it was a good one. The number matched a Princess personal CD player.

AlexsPajamaMama replied: I would be irritated too!!
I can understand including the littler ones in the egg hunt too, but for the parents to just fill their baskets with eggs that everyone knows their kids did not find that is a little much.

When I was a little kid our neighbor had a huge field for a yard and the neighbor kids all went to the Easter Egg Hunt, it was always the parents that made it brutal and competitive.

We are going to hide eggs just around our apartment for Alex to find

PrairieMom replied: I remember going to ones as a child and that happening to me. dry.gif We will do our own thing at home this year.

MommyToAshley replied: Was it a church sponsored one? Those tend to be a little less about how many eggs you can get. We just got back from one at the church and it was a lot of fun. Ashley was in the 0-3 and I think I only saw one parent doing as you described. I let Ashley get them herself.... I think that's how it should be. There were plenty of eggs to go around. I think Ashley got about 25 eggs or so... which is more than plenty of candy. I saw some people walking away with bags full of eggs though but I think most of those were from the older age groups.

We could have gone to another one at a municipal park that was supposed to be really large, but I had heard horror stories like you described so we decided to pass on it.

We usually go to our neighborhood Easter Egg hunt where there is a limit to the number of eggs the kids can get so that everyone gets the same amount. But, that was last weekend and it was cold and raining a little so we didn't go this year.

Sorry that happeded. You might want to look for a church sponsored one or a smaller community egg hunt.

paradisemommy replied: oh man i am so with you..our housing had one that we went to and before the hunt she said.."be sure to let the kids get them not the older kids that are there to help"..this hunt had mostly plastic eggs and the ones with a piece of paper inside had bigger prizes..the parents were grabbing the eggs, cracking them open and if it had paper in it - putting it in their basket, if not closing them and putting them back on the ground...i was MAJORLY pissed..what a way to ruin the fun...greed greed greed... mad.gif

mckayleesmom replied:
Ours was post sponsored too at the PX....and not only were there grown people taking them for infants, but they also didn't put out nearly enough....I really don't know what they were thinking.

luvmykids replied: When we ran into that we always "helped" point them in the right direction but didn't pick them up for them. But our town used to stagger it, so it was in 2 year age groups and parents weren't allowed to pick them up, just direct the kids. The city we live in now doesn't even have one.

MyBrownEyedBoy replied: Well, I totally got suckered. By a blond, blue eyed cutie.
I found an egg and was calling Logan over to pick it up and this little thing comes up and says, I want to get it. I say, my little boy can get it. And she gives me this story, "I haven't found any eggs yet." Now she's probably 4 or 5 and I think That is wierd, there's eggs all over. But I let her pick it up. And she runs over and puts it in the basket her mom had and it was full. GRRRRR!! I am too nice. So, I went over to her mom and told her that her little girl had just lied to me and I let her have the egg that my son (19 months old) was going to pick up. I said, this may not be your church, but I still think that was very unchristian. Her mom made her give the egg to Logan and apologize.

CosmetologyMommy replied: Maybe they should do seperate hunts depending on ur age?

5littleladies replied: That is terrible. We don't go to Easter egg hunts-My dad usually hides some for them to find at my parents house so we never have this problem, but that would really irk me. dry.gif Another thing I hate is when we are at parades and the older kids run up and down the street taking candy from in front of little kids. Why don't parent control their kids? dry.gif

MyBrownEyedBoy replied: They separated the kids 7 years and under, and 8 and over. The big kids went across the street to the park. And they let the littlest ones, under 3, go in the yard first. But that really irked me. I was hoping I didn't get too rude. But that was not right.

C&K*s Mommie replied: It would irk me too. Parents taking eggs for infants that would not be eating them anyways. And the same for Halloween.

My3LilMonkeys replied: Our town easter egg hunt is like that too. Brooke was 1 1/2 the first time we went and I think she found 4 eggs because I wasn't picking them up for her, just kind of guiding her. I saw a mom with a baby that couldn't have been 3 months old and a plastic grocery bag overflowing with eggs. growl.gif

We went to one at a church this year and it was great. They had a special section for kids under 1 so that they could get eggs without the parents being greedy and the church volunteers were excellent about making sure all of the kids and parents were fair.

Kaitlin'smom replied: I remember as a kid ding one of those public egg hunts it was horrible and unless organised well Kait will not be involved with them. Heck she had 2 privet ones this weekend laugh.gif


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