Aggressive parents derail Easter egg hunt

J.T.M. · #1 04/07/12, 02:09 PM

Jiminy crickets ....what a bunch of buzzkills we are becoming .

MACON, Ga. – Another traditional Easter egg hunt has fallen victim to aggressive parents, with event organizers in Macon, Ga., forced to cancel this week amid fears greedy moms and dads would become violent and trample on kids to grab eggs.

Joe Allen, founder of Kids Yule Love which organizes the Central City Park egg hunt, said previous bad behavior meant this year's event had become a liability because "parents caused a situation in which some children got hurt," The (Macon) Telegraph reported.

He said that a woman was hurt and several kids were trampled on at previous hunts as aggressive parents tried to get more eggs for themselves or their children.

"When people get hurt, they want some kind of compensation," Allen added.

It is not the first Easter egg hunt canceled because of pushy parents in the past month.

A free annual event held in Colorado Springs, Colo., was canceled in March because "aggressive" parents previously snatched too many eggs for their children

Aggressive Parents Derail Georgia Easter Egg Hunt | Fox News

naturelover · #2 04/07/12, 03:26 PM

I watched some videos of previous egg hunt events on the news last night. It was disgusting the way some of the parents were behaving and knocking little toddlers down and some of the horrible things they were saying to other parents and other children was just deplorable. You'd think they were at war the way they were carrying on.

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Callieslamb · #3 04/07/12, 03:28 PM

Wow...I've never seen problem. We took our DGK to the town Easter egg hunt today. It was a great time. I miss the family backyard hunt though. I totally apprecite all the people that fill all those plastic eggs with candy. I'd just throw the candy on the ground and forget the eggs!

Laura Zone 10 · #4 04/08/12, 05:12 AM

Um.....since when do parents get to 'hunt'?

Back when I was a kid, mom and dad stood on the side lines, and kids went hunting for their eggs? Parents stood on the sidelines.......

What is going on here????

Riverdale · #5 04/08/12, 08:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Laura Zone 5

Um.....since when do parents get to 'hunt'?

Back when I was a kid, mom and dad stood on the side lines, and kids went hunting for their eggs? Parents stood on the sidelines.......

What is going on here????

The parents are still children.

Trixters_muse · #6 04/08/12, 11:17 AM

A few years ago we took my niece who was 2 at the time to an egg hunt sponsored by the local children's museum. I was appalled at the behavior of the parents. I had my niece by the hand and when they signaled we could walk ahead to hunt, parents ran ahead of their kids, knocked little ones over and just made fools out of themselves. My little niece was able to get two eggs, there were plenty but the parents pushed, grabbed and shoved their way through leaving the kids behind. The child who won the grand prize didn't even hunt his own eggs, his gorilla of a dad, knocked down two kids and stepped all over some lady's feet to get the shirt full of eggs he smugly carried back to his kid's basket. I later wrote a letter to the museum and they changed the rules the following year but I will never forget that day.

Cornhusker · #7 04/08/12, 12:00 PM

People are stupid and greedy
What do they think they are teaching their kids?

Laura Zone 10 · #8 04/09/12, 06:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Riverdale

The parents are still children.

Help me understand.
Adults, parents, grown ups.........go out onto the 'hunting area' and actually look for eggs and put them in a basket, like the kids??

So let's say I am little Suzy, age 5, with my cute little dress and my pink easter basket........and I am on the lawn, looking for plastic eggs with candy inside.
ALSO on this same lawn are full grown adults, doing the same things as 5 year old Suzy????

nebula5 · #9 04/09/12, 06:53 AM

Laura, the parents "help." I think one of the problems is that younger and younger children are expected to participate- a child less than 5 can't really fend for himself. Why a 2 or 3 year old needs to participate is beyond me. Looking for eggs in his or her own apartment/yard would make that age group just as happy.

Not quite sure why we need big easter egg hunts like these. My experiences have always been with small family, neighborhood, or church easter egg hunts, where everybody knows each other.

mnn2501 · #10 04/09/12, 08:17 AM

And that's just a small sample of what it will be like if the SHTF and people scavenge for food.

pancho · #11 04/09/12, 08:58 AM

When I was a kid we actually hid the eggs. Now days the eggs are put in the open and in clumps. I watched one egg hunt on the news. The area was a well clipped football field. The eggs were scattered around on top of the grass. You could see every egg from 50 ft. away.

J.T.M. · #12 04/09/12, 09:53 AM

I live in small town Iowa ,we know how to behave here .Our town sponsored hunts are split by age groups .When you hit around 8 yrs. old you can hide eggs ,it seems to work out well and they seem to have so much fun hiding then finding.

beowoulf90 · #13 04/09/12, 10:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Laura Zone 5

Um.....since when do parents get to 'hunt'?

Back when I was a kid, mom and dad stood on the side lines, and kids went hunting for their eggs? Parents stood on the sidelines.......

What is going on here????

The answer is;

They are a product of our failing education system where everyone is treated the same and gets a graduation cert. for finishing 1st grade, then 2nd grade and so on, and so on. Remember they got trophies for finishing last, because it's all about them.....

Laura Zone 10 · #14 04/09/12, 11:06 AM

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Originally Posted by nebula5

Laura, the parents "help." I think one of the problems is that younger and younger children are expected to participate- a child less than 5 can't really fend for himself. Why a 2 or 3 year old needs to participate is beyond me. Looking for eggs in his or her own apartment/yard would make that age group just as happy.

Not quite sure why we need big easter egg hunts like these. My experiences have always been with small family, neighborhood, or church easter egg hunts, where everybody knows each other.

That is so 'different'.

When I was a kid (back when we hunted for dinosaur eggs

) there was an area for the 'littles' ( like 3 and under). Not really 'hidden' but laying out in the wide open.
Then an area for the 4-6 year olds. A little 'more hidden". But not really.
Then an area for the 7-10ish year olds.
The hunt was for the children. They all started on a 'line' and stayed int their respective areas.
They collected their eggs, and brought them back to mom and dad, WHO STAYED on the side lines......to show what THEY found.

Looks like now they make it in plain view (no thinking involved) and let moms dads and any other adult go out and do the work for them.
And we wonder why kids are lazy!!
OMGosh.......just wow.

Thanks for the explanations!!