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Post by crazy4scraps on Mar 28, 2016 13:43:03 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!Not always. There is a big one here (that we don't go to) where they drop 10,000 eggs from a helicopter. They show it on the news every year. Some have candy, others have money and others have prize tickets inside for some pretty big ticket things like bikes and scooters. It's total chaos. I understand why people go, but really, it's crazy. |
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Post by whipea on Mar 28, 2016 13:45:52 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? Unrelated to the behavior in O/P but to the question of the "what is the appeal of big hunts?". Not everyone has a backyard, many, many people live in cities or apartment complexes, it's big hunts or nothing. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2016 14:03:21 GMT
This happened in a town about 15 minutes from me. Honestly after having been to many many hunts over the years with my children (the oldest is now 34) I don't see how people are blaming the organizers.
You are responsible for your own behavior. Even if there was only one person there that yelled "GO" the participants should have been responsible enough to not knock down children and steal eggs. Unfortunately I see this as a "gimme gimme" of some of todays young parents.....
Pez was trying to give back to the community and there is always those who are greedy.....
I live across the street from a splash pad and watch parents let their older children knock down the "littles" and don't say a word.....its terrible...
And don't even get me started on the time I lost a finger nail on black Friday to someone elses greed.....
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Post by gmcwife1 on Mar 28, 2016 14:23:15 GMT
Sadly there will always be selfish self-centered jerks that take advantage. It's not that hard to make the right decision on how to act. Even if the event was not perfectly organized people are still responsible for their own actions.
We did community egg hunts and/or hunted eggs at home when I was growing up. Luckily I don't remember any jerks back then. My kids have done a few community hunts over the years but as they got bigger we stopped participating. It's really sad when adults ruin things, especially when they ruin events for kids.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Mar 28, 2016 14:31:18 GMT
This happened in a town about 15 minutes from me. Honestly after having been to many many hunts over the years with my children (the oldest is now 34) I don't see how people are blaming the organizers. You are responsible for your own behavior. Even if there was only one person there that yelled "GO" the participants should have been responsible enough to not knock down children and steal eggs. Unfortunately I see this as a "gimme gimme" of some of todays young parents..... Pez was trying to give back to the community and there is always those who are greedy.....I live across the street from a splash pad and watch parents let their older children knock down the "littles" and don't say a word.....its terrible... And don't even get me started on the time I lost a finger nail on black Friday to someone elses greed..... And the really sad thing is that after this debacle it's doubtful they will ever do anything remotely like this again. What was supposed to be a fun little giveaway for kids turned into a giant PR mess. |
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Post by myshelly on Mar 28, 2016 14:39:19 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? Unrelated to the behavior in O/P but to the question of the "what is the appeal of big hunts?". Not everyone has a backyard, many, many people live in cities or apartment complexes, it's big hunts or nothing. Hide them inside your house/apartment. I'd do anything to avoid a big hunt. |
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Post by myshelly on Mar 28, 2016 14:40:07 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? Unrelated to the behavior in O/P but to the question of the "what is the appeal of big hunts?". Not everyone has a backyard, many, many people live in cities or apartment complexes, it's big hunts or nothing. Hide them inside your house/apartment. I'd do anything to avoid a big hunt. |
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Mar 28, 2016 14:59:14 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!Not always. There is a big one here (that we don't go to) where they drop 10,000 eggs from a helicopter. They show it on the news every year. Some have candy, others have money and others have prize tickets inside for some pretty big ticket things like bikes and scooters. It's total chaos. I understand why people go, but really, it's crazy. I know  But I was referring to the Pez egg hunt. I think it was just candy, right? But wow! The egg drop/hunt that you describe..... I'd be actually afraid to try to compete there. I'd probably be trampled to death. |
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Post by Prenticekid on Mar 28, 2016 15:42:00 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? Unrelated to the behavior in O/P but to the question of the "what is the appeal of big hunts?". Not everyone has a backyard, many, many people live in cities or apartment complexes, it's big hunts or nothing. Now that's just funny and shows how different people are. I have never known anyone who does Easter egg hunts outdoors. Everyone I know does them in their very own living rooms on Easter morning while wearing pjs before getting ready for church. Like Christmas though, everyone has their own thing going with their own traditions. But the fact that someone would think that because you don't have a back yard you don't have an Easter egg hunt is just unreal to me. (In a funny, you learn something new every day way, not in a negative way). |
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Post by eastcoastpea on Mar 28, 2016 16:26:40 GMT
It's sad that some people had to ruin it. It could have been a cool new tradition for some families.
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Post by ilikepink on Mar 28, 2016 16:33:37 GMT
My twin mom group did a hunt every year - usually inside, but well monitored. Everyone helped the little ones, and everyone got something.
We did inside hunts - rather than candy in each, I put notes with money amounts written, or "candy". When the boys were a tad older, I started adding in notes to "give back" money - never more than a quarter, but it made it more interesting. We had two golden eggs, one with a give back note, and one with $5 - our biggest prize. One year, they could not find the $5 egg. Took all day - and it was more or less in plain sight. Talk about frustrated boys!
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Post by mallie on Mar 28, 2016 17:43:44 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. I was involved in Easter Egg hunts at two different churches. Both of them were sterling examples of how NOT to demonstrate Christian behavior. Big kids trampling over and pushing aside little kids, kids swiping eggs out of another kid's hand, etc. Utterly disgusting, if you want to know the truth. Subsequently, we tried a local community egg hunt and it was also very discouraging to see the mindless gimmegimmegimme behavior. We then gave up on egg hunts aside from our own place. |
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Post by JustCallMeMommy on Mar 28, 2016 18:11:10 GMT
Alison is an only child and even in the years when we are with family, it is her and her cousin. Easter egg hunts are really more fun with more than one or two participants, so a few years, we went to the city hunt and met friends there. The first year wasn't bad, but it was insanely fast. They held the kids back then released them. It looked like a giant vacuum cleaner - you could see the eggs being "vacuumed up" as the crowd reached the eggs. The last year we went, even DD said, "Never again." They did the helicopter drop, and even though Alison was in the oldest group of kids, there was pushing and tons of parents out there grabbing eggs with the kids. IMO, if you could just get the parents out of it and let the kids hunt the eggs, it would be fine.
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Post by gmcwife1 on Mar 28, 2016 19:31:08 GMT
Unrelated to the behavior in O/P but to the question of the "what is the appeal of big hunts?". Not everyone has a backyard, many, many people live in cities or apartment complexes, it's big hunts or nothing. Like Christmas though, everyone has their own thing going with their own traditions. But the fact that someone would think that because you don't have a back yard you don't have an Easter egg hunt is just unreal to me. (In a funny, you learn something new every day way, not in a negative way). For us, hiding them in the house was our fall back if it was raining. Otherwise outside is much more fun. Space to run, more places to hide and look, just more of an overall free and fun time and the kids can stretch their legs and run  We actually do our family egg hunt at my parents house with all the siblings/cousins. They have 3 acres with part of that being a nice upper and lower yard. They also have fruit trees and lawn decorations that make great hiding places. We usually have the older cousins hide the eggs for the younger ones, which is nice so all the kids can play |
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Post by melanell on Mar 29, 2016 0:33:51 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. It sounds like this is how this one was supposed to be, and how it has been the last 2 years. But then this year had many more people and apparently some adults just don't know how to behave like decent human beings.  |
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Post by melanell on Mar 29, 2016 0:43:30 GMT
Add us to the list of parents who brought their kid to a public hunt once and then never again. We took him to a nearby city who was holding a hunt in a park, and it was bedlam. They had roped off an area for smaller kids, and the older kids (and their parents) marched right through it to get to their area! At that point we were not aware of any hunts in our town, which is why we traveled to this hunt. DS was so upset. And we were upset at how some of the parents behaved. That year we held our first annual egg hunt & luncheon and we've been having them ever since. These days I do see hunts advertaised in town, but we just keep having ours. It's a tradition now. |
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Post by scrapApea on Mar 29, 2016 0:54:01 GMT
Yeah, pushy entitled parents is why some kids are growing up that way.   We never did these things either because you know there are those asshole parents that teach their kids to be the same way. Free is not worth dealing with them. |
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Post by melanell on Mar 29, 2016 11:48:06 GMT
Oh, hey, and our egg hunt just keeps giving. I dropped DS #1 off at school today and on the way back, DS #2 started pointing out the window at our side yard saying "I see eggs! I see eggs!". Sure enough there were 2 still sitting out there from Saturday. Boy was he happy! |
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Post by threegirls on Mar 29, 2016 12:30:33 GMT
I take my girls to my hometown that is one hour away for an annual egg hunt. Everyone is behaved. There is never any trouble. There are always at least one or two police cars, a fire truck and an ambulance. They are there for the kids to look at but I think it also helps keep people in check. Although I don't think there would be any problems even if they weren't there.
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We never did these things either because you know there are those asshole parents that teach their kids to be the same way. Free is not worth dealing with them.