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Dad of three boys checking in. I echo Sweety Darlin’s comment. She hit the nail on the head. We actually didn’t do our town’s local egg hunt because of the over bearing, everyone should win parents. Sad but it’s reality.

Non-parent but wanted to say that this is absurd. It’s a GAME. They’re EGGS. Life isn’t about fairness. Some of these parents need to grow up.
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I’d have a rule that the first parent over the line is the pinata. I remember in kindergarten, we had an egg hunt. We were to find an egg, and return to our mat. Two kids didn’t find eggs, because David Fucking Phillips took three. The teacher went around looking at each kids teeth until she found the bastard. Yeah, I was one of those kids, and I bit David Phillips on the shoulder on the bus. Take my chocolate egg, will ya?
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Easter egg hunts in Idaho are brutal. The kids are trained to take each other out.

It’s a free for all. And I can’t wait to videotape it.
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I never got a big community Easter egg hunt. We always looked forward to dying our own eggs, and then our parents would painstakingly hide them around the house and pray we found them all in the morning… and not 2 months later.

These parents are ridiculous though. It’s like the parents that pick fights at their kids little league game. Just let them be kids!
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I have no kids, but those asshats that ruined that egg hunt sound like the same type of parents that demand that all the children participating in an event where there are winners get “participation medals” so no one feels left out. When I was a kid, not winning at something was character building and parents were all for that.

It’s so sad that they ruined that for those children .
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Parent of 2 here. I agree with absolutely everything above including you. Every parent wants their child/children to be good or the best or win at something but life is not fair and the sooner they learn that the better adults they will be. The first time my daughter came home and said some girls said her friend was not in the cool group I told her to ask those girls exactly what a cool group was. I told her to set her own style, fashion etc and to this day she takes not crap from anyone.

We attending one on Sunday, our first pubilc event like that and there was like 69654651 kids out there with parents on their tails. I let my munchkin run it solo and lucky me she wasn’t upset AT ALL with what she came back with. Some parents are just effen retards.. Just sayin!

I come across these idiot parent in every aspect of life. I am so happy my youngest is now a teenager and I do not have to deal with it anymore.

I taught my kids real life. I NEVER ‘let’ them beat me at anything. When the day came that my son actually beat me at chess, he KNEW he had earned it. It was so much better than playing easy for him and never forcing him to apply himself. It has been eight years and he still talks about the joy of that day.
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I have two sons and my boyfriend has a daughter.

I DO NOT believe that any parent should have gotten that upset about a simple tradition. Yes, if you have a fear that your precious offspring will not find any eggs, bring your own and toss a couple for them, otherwise, keep your desire to beat the Jones’ out of what makes children happy. Let them just be kids and stop worrying so much about how they make you look. Our parents (at least mine) let me fail on occasion. I’m a well adjusted individual, or at least I would like to think so. The “everyone loves you” complex some of us are giving our children makes them complacent and careless about achieving goals because goals have lost all importance. Why try when Mommy or Daddy will do it for me. Disgusting.

I never took my kids to those type of egg hunts but we would have egg hunts here at home I would hide their eggs around the house and in the morning they would look for them………….Although I would have to write on the eggs each childs name that way they all got the same amount of eggs, when they were very little they thought it was cool that the Easter Bunny named their eggs…………
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I’m a parent of teenagers and have seen this thing time and again. Kids follow you’re lead. If you lose your mind, they think there’s a reason to as well. Parents are continually wrecking this type of event. No different than minor sport. I’m raising 2 lifelong participants who like to play and know how to win and lose. You have to be able to do both with dignity.

Wow! The audacity! I can’t wait until this generation grows up!
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Overly competitive parents are just the funniest thing… I would have offered to buy them some more eggs, as obviously times must be hard for them.
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When playing games and stuff, my dad would always play at a level where it was possible for me to win. I.e. he didn’t destroy me with size and strength, but I still had to play smart to win

And when we got a SEGA, i had to do the same
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If your child is undersized and has a hard time in a big group, you have your hunt at home, where you can help them out. Everyone enjoys it. But thaqt’s the Obama generation for you- If you can’t do it yourself, have the gov’mint do it for you.
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I would rather my child come back with no eggs than know that I am jumping a rope and being dishonest for them.

I agree with CW…if you know your kids can’t handle the big stuff for some reason, do it at home. Don’t ruin it for the world.
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I have taken my daughter to public egg hunts before. Myself, I haven’t had a problem with them. Of course I have that odd, charitable kid that sees other kids not finding eggs and will pair up with them to help them look so THEY go home with stuff. She also is odd, in that, she doesn’t care for any kind of candy that doesn’t come in a peanut butter cup form. And she doesn’t eat eggs. So if we went to an egg hunt and she didn’t find anything she was fine with it. If she did find stuff, she would usually just find the kid(s) with the least and give them all her stuff. She had more fun looking and finding and playing the game than getting a “reward” out of it. I must have done something right (dammed if I know what) to have a kid that will do what she can to make other kids feel better before she will worry about herself. As for the parents of those kids…they should be ashamed of themselves. Their behavior was obviously worse than their children and now their children suffer for it. And these parents are teaching their kids that behavior so in 20 years from now, when you hear about another egg hunt being cancelled, we all will know it was the grown children of the Colorado egg hunt that attended and shamed their kids. Don’t get me wrong, I am not the greatest parent. I’m loud, brutally honest and cuss like a sailor. And I do it in front of my daughter. In private, so I don’t embarrass her. That and I practice what I preach. I teach her a certain way of conducting herself in public (and in private) so she can grow to be a productive, respectful member of society. I also teach her to do what I say and not as I do, as well as using myself as an example of what NOT to do. Ok I’m done ranting. Sorry about that.
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There was only one, and will only ever be one, public easter egg hunt we ever went to. I got a job at the local park district and since they were hosting a hunt I got my parents to take my little sisters. They let parents take the kids by hand to hunt eggs, but it was like a frigging stampede with parents running, dragging their kids, and running over any other kids not attached to a parent. Never again.

What the hell is wrong with people? Parents need to let their kid try and if they don’t get as many as everybody else they will work harder next time. Or they may even be happy they got something.
And I am a parent.
When Kiddo went to her first Easter Egg hunt, all the eggs were out in plain sight. There were so may kids, by the time she bent over and picked one up it was over. She got 1 egg and no hunting. Sad. But, some didn’t get any.
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I am not a parent, but I care for my nieces six days a week. Now, if they participate in an egg hunt, but can’t seem to find eggs, this will lead them to cry. I have the sound of children crying. I will jump over that rope and stuff their baskets with eggs just to shut them up. I would do that, yes.

Are they ACTUALLY eggs these days? Most of the hunts are not hermetically sealed plastic eggs with individually wrapped jelly beans inside because lord knows what pervert “laid” that egg.

With my own kids and the diversity of ages, we let the younger one go out first, then the middle, then the oldest. We crow about who finds the most at that moment and then we put all the candy in one big bowl.

WG
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A good example of how being a parent doesn’t automatically make you a good person.
Those of us who choose to not have kids are immediately judged to be selfish. Selfish or not, at least I’m not an Easter Egg Moron.

I’m going to follow your little detour at the end of your posting when you wrote “This reminds me of the sports leagues where every kid gets a trophy or ribbon even if they lose.” The somewhat recent Pacific-12 basketball tournament to determine the conference champion included the team from University of Southern California (USC). USC’s record within the conference was 6-26. That’s 6 wins and 26 losses. But they were in the tournament to determine the champion.

Your statement of every kid gets a trophy extends even into the college ranks. We have become a society that rewards mediocrity.

Another mother of two here and Sweety hit the nail on the head. LIFE ISN’T FUCKING FAIR.

You don’t help your kids self-esteem by shielding them from ever having the sucktastic experience of being a loser.. you help them by teaching them that if they lose at something LIFE GOES ON and it’s NOT THE END OF THE WORLD and to TRY AGAIN AND HOPE YOU DO BETTER NEXT TIME.

and if they don’t? WELL YOU CAN’T BE GOOD AT EVERYTHING.
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Sounds like somebody released to hockey parents on the neighbourhood Easter Egg Hunt.
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Non-parent, also non-public egg-hunt attender. My family did like Haven’s and had an egg-hunt in the house. I was wondering where all the rope-jumper parents were, to give their logic as to WHY they do that…until I read Nellie Vaughn’s comment. Nice to see she’s being honest!

I’d like to hear from a few more of them! (I do not think I would ever do that, but it’s a non-issue for me.)
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Wow. I can hear the helicopter blades of those parents all the way over here! That’s just ridiculous. The highly competitive, overprotective, coddle my kid, type of parents just frustrate me.

I try not to judge. Because I hate being the one judged. But, for heaven’s sake, they need to just relax!
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I haven’t participated in a public egg hunt. But now I’m glad to know that I need to start training my children now for next year. We can start doing drills in the back yard!
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