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Post by edie3 on Mar 27, 2016 21:45:59 GMT
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Post by myshelly on Mar 27, 2016 21:47:53 GMT
I've never understood the appeal of big Easter egg hunts like this.
The bunny leaves eggs in our backyard. The kids run out in their pajamas and find them.
The end.
No drama, no other people, no violence, no trouble.
What is the appeal of big hunts?
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Post by padresfan619 on Mar 27, 2016 21:50:56 GMT
I've never understood the appeal of big Easter egg hunts like this. The bunny leaves eggs in our backyard. The kids run out in their pajamas and find them. The end. No drama, no other people, no violence, no trouble. What is the appeal of big hunts? Last words of the link "free event." Some people will put up with anything if they don't have to pay for it. I always grew up doing easter egg hunts in my aunt's backyard with just my brother.
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Post by lorieann13 on Mar 27, 2016 22:03:23 GMT
And people wonder why kids are growing up with a greedy, me me me attitude. Their parents set great examples...
We did an egg hunt once at church. Its a community event as well. I have never seen so many Christian parents be so greedy and hungry for plastic eggs. It was seperated by age but wow. It was madness. Kids grabbing from other baskets. Parents putting eggs in their kids basket instead of the kids finding the eggs.
Last time we did it.
Its amazing what bevaiors you see at free events like that.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2016 22:04:50 GMT
My father took me to one. I was not an aggressive child. I got 3 eggs and an older kid took them. My father laugh and said it served me right for not protecting them. We went home. He had great fun with telling people how my eggs got stolen.
I hate those things. We never took the kids.
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Post by littlefish on Mar 27, 2016 22:07:13 GMT
My kiddo participated in an egg hunt as part of her soccer season at the YMCA once.
Key word being ONCE.
Never again.
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Post by refugeepea on Mar 27, 2016 22:08:46 GMT
I've never understood the appeal of big Easter egg hunts like this. The bunny leaves eggs in our backyard. The kids run out in their pajamas and find them. The end. No drama, no other people, no violence, no trouble. What is the appeal of big hunts? That when it's good to know what towns hold the events and organize them well. If I go, I go to my hometown. It doesn't matter how many eggs you get, everyone gets the same goody bag at the end. There are a few golden eggs scattered, but the "big" prize is a kite or coloring book.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Mar 27, 2016 22:29:22 GMT
We go to the one our neighborhood puts on and it's never anything like that. They separate it by age groups (0-3, 4-6, 7-12 or something) with varying levels of finding difficulty. The Easter Bunny makes an appearance for photo ops. Every kid ends up with a basket of eggs unless they show up late and miss it.
The kids love being able to play with their friends from the neighborhood before and after on the playground, and if the weather cooperates they have a bounce house set up too. It's fun, we grownups get to socialize with our neighbors after a long winter and everyone has a nice time.
We do another egg hunt in the house on Easter morning just for DD too, but the neighborhood one is always something she really looks forward to.
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Post by Belle on Mar 27, 2016 23:42:00 GMT
I've never understood the appeal of big Easter egg hunts like this. The bunny leaves eggs in our backyard. The kids run out in their pajamas and find them. The end. No drama, no other people, no violence, no trouble. What is the appeal of big hunts? We do it this way too! I also assign colors to my kids so they only get to pick up their particular colored eggs and leave the others for the other one. We go to a large church and at Easter there are even more that come - could be 500 or 600 people at a service. A couple of years ago the church switched to doing the egg hunts DURING Sunday school....while the parents were in church. I love that they handle it that way and they do goodie bags for the kids too. Too many pushy parents that are off the charts competitive does not make for a fun egg hunt.
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Post by monklady123 on Mar 28, 2016 0:02:02 GMT
Yeah, pushy entitled parents is why some kids are growing up that way. Thankfully my church is very small so we've never had a lot of kids for our egg hunt. Maybe 25 or so at the height of our kid years. But our bigger kids were always so cute with the little ones... the littlest ones got to go first and the bigger kids would be helping them, saying "oh did you look over near the slide...?" and helping them pick up eggs they dropped, etc. Then later we'd hide eggs for the bigger kids and they were hidden very well, nothing in plain sight. bwah-ha-ha-ha. They loved it.
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Post by Mary Kay Lady on Mar 28, 2016 0:35:56 GMT
I remember going to Easter egg hunts that were held at our local zoo as a child. Hundreds of people from the community would come. It was divided up into age groups and was a lot of fun.
For my sons we always did our own Easter egg hunts in our backyard.
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Post by tduby1 on Mar 28, 2016 0:45:00 GMT
I've never understood the appeal of big Easter egg hunts like this. The bunny leaves eggs in our backyard. The kids run out in their pajamas and find them. The end. No drama, no other people, no violence, no trouble. What is the appeal of big hunts? This is what we did (ok and my teenagers still do- we gave them the option to forgo it this year but they still wanted to, lol). I do know people who will try to hit every free egg hunt they can find. Not my idea of fun.
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Post by myboysnme on Mar 28, 2016 0:45:15 GMT
And people wonder why kids are growing up with a greedy, me me me attitude. Their parents set great examples... We did an egg hunt once at church. Its a community event as well. I have never seen so many Christian parents be so greedy and hungry for plastic eggs. It was seperated by age but wow. It was madness. Kids grabbing from other baskets. Parents putting eggs in their kids basket instead of the kids finding the eggs. Last time we did it. Its amazing what bevaiors you see at free events like that. More than 50 years ago we went to an egg hunt and different ages were grouped together. My sister was about 1 and a half. A bigger kid, probably 3, pushed her down and took all her eggs. I still remember how horrified I was that someone would push down a baby and steal easter eggs and I was about 7. I wondered then and i wonder now why parents act like this and let their kids do the same. We think we are such a peace loving people celebrating the Resurrection but this is not true of many of us and of the people around us.
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Post by myboysnme on Mar 28, 2016 0:48:33 GMT
My father took me to one. I was not an aggressive child. I got 3 eggs and an older kid took them. My father laugh and said it served me right for not protecting them. We went home. He had great fun with telling people how my eggs got stolen. I hate those things. We never took the kids. I hope your dad did better in other areas of parenting because seriously, whoever laughed along with him is just as bad. i hope your mom told him off.
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Post by moveablefeast on Mar 28, 2016 0:55:47 GMT
And people wonder why kids are growing up with a greedy, me me me attitude. Their parents set great examples... We did an egg hunt once at church. Its a community event as well. I have never seen so many Christian parents be so greedy and hungry for plastic eggs. It was seperated by age but wow. It was madness. Kids grabbing from other baskets. Parents putting eggs in their kids basket instead of the kids finding the eggs. Last time we did it. Its amazing what bevaiors you see at free events like that. We did an egg hunt last year at church and it was terrible. One pastor's kids grabbed a paper grocery bag full of eggs while younger kids had none. I asked my then 7yo if she would give away some eggs to kids who got no eggs at all because other kids were so greedy. (We had eggs at home and had an egg hunt of our own in the neighborhood, so she didn't miss out.) Our neighborhood hunt, we set a limit on eggs. We all bring some and we divide the number of eggs by the number of kids. It's equitable and we always have extras and we set the rules clearly. We do it in the neighborhood because the kids enjoy having an egg hunt with their friends. Several of us have only children so we band together to do fun things as a group and our neighborhood egg hunt is one of our favorite things. But we are very serious that it is equitable because we want everyone to leave with a smile and not with tears because they weren't as fast or aggressive as the other kids. Sharing, kindness, and fun are what we're about and in our group everybody gets a prize - this is how we roll.
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Post by hop2 on Mar 28, 2016 1:04:32 GMT
Geez it's pez. They are 99cents. I just bought 9 Friday full price because I didn't want to chance THE one I wanted would be there after Easter.
Some people ought to grow the hell up.
I've never seen a bad egg hunt. Though I haven't really gone to too many public ones.
Is this why some communities have 'egg rolling' activities instead?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2016 1:18:44 GMT
My father took me to one. I was not an aggressive child. I got 3 eggs and an older kid took them. My father laugh and said it served me right for not protecting them. We went home. He had great fun with telling people how my eggs got stolen. I hate those things. We never took the kids. I hope your dad did better in other areas of parenting because seriously, whoever laughed along with him is just as bad. i hope your mom told him off. Nope. My mother would have never saud boo to him.
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Post by Grom Pea on Mar 28, 2016 1:32:11 GMT
Man this is so messed up. I'm lucky we only do at home and a teacher led hunt where she says the amount of eggs you can take and she'll take them back from you if you take too many. Last year, my son at 2 didn't really understand the concept so got very few but the teacher made sure he got 11, same as everyone else and this year the hunt was very fair as well, you got back the same number you brought. I still remember the 1 egg hunt I did as a child at a grocery store, kids were knocking food on the ground to find eggs, it horrified me then and I'd never go to one of those big free events. Hopefully they won't host another event.
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Post by stampinchick on Mar 28, 2016 2:12:20 GMT
I read an article about this that mentioned that most people were responding on social media in support of Pez and blaming parents for the chaos. But they quoted one post by a parent who blamed Pez, saying that they drove 2 1/2 hours to get there only to find out that it started earlier than the posted time. Who the heck drives 2 1/2 hours to go to an egg hunt???
When I was a kid we always went to an egg hunt at a local park. They corded off areas based on age groups. Years later when my brother had kids and they came to visit for Easter we took my nieces to the same park. I saw one parent carrying a child that was probably about 4 months old - the mother was running around like a mad woman picking up eggs for her baby. She had a full basket of eggs but my niece only had a couple because this woman could run faster than my little niece and got to the eggs first. That was the last time we took my nieces to a public egg hunt. It's more fun to hide the eggs in the yard at home.
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Post by breetheflea on Mar 28, 2016 2:17:07 GMT
After the last public egg hunt we went to that was advertised to separate by age but didn't so my kids were getting trampled by teens and also competing with the homeless people camped near the park I now hide eggs in our yard the night before (in the dark) and the kids wake up the neighbor's finding eggs in the yard at dawn. This year my 6 year old was ready to go at 4:30 but we made him wait until 8 am. Sorry neighbors.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Mar 28, 2016 2:38:27 GMT
After the last public egg hunt we went to that was advertised to separate by age but didn't so my kids were getting trampled by teens and also competing with the homeless people camped near the park I now hide eggs in our yard the night before (in the dark) and the kids wake up the neighbor's finding eggs in the yard at dawn. This year my 6 year old was ready to go at 4:30 but we made him wait until 8 am. Sorry neighbors. Our neighbors did this a couple years ago thinking it would save some time in the morning. When they got up, they discovered that the squirrels had found and pillaged most of their plastic eggs! Needless to say, now they hide them inside or do it the morning of. We always hide ours inside because with three dogs... You get the idea.
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Post by bigbundt on Mar 28, 2016 2:51:09 GMT
A lot of parents are assholes at these free events. Carrying their kids, picking up eggs themselves, encouraging their kids to steal eggs from other kids, not saying anything if their kid knocks down another, etc. If parents would just get their heads on straight and keep their kids in line it could be a fun event! However a lot do not so we will not bring our daughter to a public Easter egg hunt at all. I grew up in a small town and I remember the public egg hunts at the park. They were a lot of fun but the parents are the one who kept their kids in line and kept things fun and fair between the kids. ETA: We also don't attend public egg hunts because if my DH saw any adult knocking down our kid? There would be a fight and his arrest would probably be eminent.
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Post by Peamac on Mar 28, 2016 2:59:15 GMT
DH read me the article earlier today- incredible! I went to facebook to see the PezUSA page and read the comments, and am glad that saner heads are prevailing there in their opinions of the event. Here in Colorado Springs most egg hunts have been cancelled or moved indoors since we've had two snow storms in the past four days.
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Post by pierkiss on Mar 28, 2016 3:57:24 GMT
We do not take our kids to the community egg hunts. My parents took me to one when I was around 4 years old, back in the 80s. It was horrible. I got stepped on and got no eggs. I refuse to subject my kids to that nuttiness. We have our own in our back yard. The bunny hides them during nap, our kids run out and get them, everyone has fun and no one gets hurt.
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Post by anniefb on Mar 28, 2016 4:31:47 GMT
Crazy! We always just had egg hunts at home. They're not a big thing here in New Zealand but my parents grew up with them in Austria.
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Post by alissa103 on Mar 28, 2016 6:07:24 GMT
How horrible! Wow. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who hates the big egg hunts, though! Our neighborhood does one and separates by age, but even then DS is slow and still only gets a few while the majority of the kids take as many as they possibly can, practically running over each other. I don't get it. We did a hunt in our back yard and it was fun. DS took foooooorever to pick them all up bc he wanted to open each one to see what was inside Seeing him do that made me glad we didn't bother going to the neighborhood hunt this year (timing was bad for us).
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Post by anniebygaslight on Mar 28, 2016 6:44:17 GMT
Bad organisation, too big an event and horrible people. At the school my boys went to, numbered ping pong balls were set around the site, which were handed in and exchanged for an Easter egg with the corresponding number on it. Several additional eggs were kept for those who didn't find any ping pong balls.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Mar 28, 2016 10:37:47 GMT
I think the key word is "free."
It brings out the worst sometimes.
But come on people. It's candy, not gold, inside those eggs!
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Post by iowgirl on Mar 28, 2016 13:15:45 GMT
I knew my kids were going to turn out right, when I saw them sharing their eggs from an Easter Egg hunt with kids that didn't get any, or very few.
They are great adults now!
I am guessing those pushy parents are the same ones at WalMart on Black Friday that push in front of people and steal stuff out of shopping carts.
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Post by maryland on Mar 28, 2016 13:28:30 GMT
A lot of parents are assholes at these free events. Carrying their kids, picking up eggs themselves, encouraging their kids to steal eggs from other kids, not saying anything if their kid knocks down another, etc. If parents would just get their heads on straight and keep their kids in line it could be a fun event! However a lot do not so we will not bring our daughter to a public Easter egg hunt at all. I grew up in a small town and I remember the public egg hunts at the park. They were a lot of fun but the parents are the one who kept their kids in line and kept things fun and fair between the kids. ETA: We also don't attend public egg hunts because if my DH saw any adult knocking down our kid? There would be a fight and his arrest would probably be eminent. Me and my husband would do the same!
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