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I've decided that I hate easter egg hunts. The way parents behave at these things is an embarassment to society.

We were at a local waterpark that had a free easter event and egg hunt. They lined the 1-4 year olds up on the edge of a field of hundreds of eggs (none hidden, of course). When the MC said "GO" the horde of kids swarmed in with their parents, who were scooping up eggs for their kids by the dozens.

My wife stood back to let Sasha grab the eggs by herself, but the wave of kids had almost grabbed every egg in sight. We managed to pick up our 3 year old and run her to the corner of existing eggs, and she picked up two eggs herself before the rest vanished in front of her eyes. Some kids walked away with NOTHING in their baskets, while others paraded around their greedy stash of dozens or more.

We will never go to a hunt like this again. When we got home, the neighbour kid (Dennis the Menace) told us he went to a hunt where you get a bonus prize if you only take two eggs. Maybe we'll find that next year.

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Submitted by ticktock on Sat, 03/22/2008 - 11:25am.

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Those things can be insane

You're right. I like the family-thing better anyway on Easter morn. I bet Sasha would love to hide eggs for mommy and daddy to find. For my kids, at that young age, that was a camcorder moment.


Sat, 03/22/2008 - 1:26pm

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Same story here

We're new to NJ, the egg hunt at our rec center in MI went well annually.

So my 7 year old son, who is the size of an average 9 year old and could knock down anyone in his path IF he wanted to... He's in a group with only 7 & 8 year olds (or should be!). They're told to only pick 3 eggs.

My son is very well behaved and obeys things he's told. All the kids rush into the field and are grabbing everything in sight. He, seriously, got no eggs. Zero.

The best thing is 1) he had a great attitude about not getting any and 2) He knows the reason for the holiday is Jesus death and resurrection and that He dies for our sins and our salvation.

So all in all, no worries with the egg hunt. My 3 year old was able to get 3 eggs in the "young kid" area.

FYI, they should not be serving hot chocolate and coffee for a 10 AM Easter Egg Hunt! Nor should my kids have to wear winter jackets, hats & gloves/mittens! Where's all this Global Warming (tm) they keep talking about??? This is just not right!

Cheers,
PittCaleb


Sat, 03/22/2008 - 8:53pm

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Parental assist

The correct form, of course, is for daddy to set a vicious moving pick of the greedy brats so that your kid can get his/her fair share. ;-)

**I'm kidding** (sort of)


Sat, 03/22/2008 - 8:57pm

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Thanks

Nice job, adding your pic to the story of your pick, Mr. Msmithivas.


Sat, 03/22/2008 - 8:59pm

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It Just Killed Me

-To see the overly polite kids at our age divided easter egg hunt yesterday crying because they only got one, or no eggs. We fared slightly better with 4. He could've gotten more if he picked up eggs along the way to the ones high on the climbing wall he eyed from afar while waiting from the seperation tape. I told him he should have grabbed them along the way, and he said "oh ya". This morning we had a Hot Wheels basket and eggs stashed around the house; and at 7:01 I got woken up by "Dad, check it out! Sweet!". Made my day!

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Sun, 03/23/2008 - 9:29am

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Global Warming's Flip-Side

PittCaleb wrote:
FYI, they should not be serving hot chocolate and coffee for a 10 AM Easter Egg Hunt! Nor should my kids have to wear winter jackets, hats & gloves/mittens! Where's all this Global Warming (tm) they keep talking about??? This is just not right!

A number of computer models and scientists have predicted that global warming not only causes warmer summers but colder winters, with some of the strongest effects from this focused around the European Union.

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Sun, 03/23/2008 - 6:20pm

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Yeah, and not just colder but more snowfall

Whenever there is a heavy, unusually heavy, snowfall season some drecks come out of the woodwork to say "See, it's not getting warmer, it's getting colder: more snow!", without ever considering that warmer global temperature means more water evaporated into the atmosphere over the summer months to condense out in the winter months as snowfall.

I don't know if I believe that the FACT of the global temperature rising in the last decades is unnatural, irreversible, reversible, natural, disastrous, insignificant, or whatever. I just know that more snow in winter is not proof of anything except that I can make more snowmen.

Well, not me, I live in California. Not yet, that is.

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Sun, 03/23/2008 - 9:56pm

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Easter Egg hunt

Not to derail the train back onto the track but I thought I would share how the church that I go to did it.

1) separate the kids by ages
2) every age room had a couple of monitors
3) the monitors also had a 'hold out' bag of eggs so if anyone missed finding some there were some more to give away.
4) the kids had to be with their parents, I realize is some cases this could be a detriment.
5) I think they cut it off at 4th graders
6) and finally they had 7,000 eggs this year, so at least in the three year old room (that's where I was) there were SO many extra eggs is was kind of silly. I think they had the older kids sweep the younger rooms at the end of the day to cut down on clean up.

I do think it is deplorable that all of this is necessary, and I know that things were not rosy when I was a boy, but I know my mom would have had a thing to say if we had acted that way.

Oh and 7) quality pre-easter egg hunt entertainment!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fjX6rjcl9M

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Sun, 03/23/2008 - 11:05pm

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Limits

Way back when I was in high school, student council put on an egg hunt in the school for kids in the area. There were some strict rules:
- kids were divided by age and the youngest ones went first (with Mom and Das help).
- once a kids found an egg for each hand, they had to come back to "home base" to drop off the eggs before they could go search for more.
- there were 75 members of student council strewn all over the school so there was no cheating.

It worked really well and was very successful the years I was involved.

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Mon, 03/24/2008 - 11:24am

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