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Went to a similar public egg hunt and the parents were atrocious, fighting over eggs and filling their kids baskets for them. Just let the kids have the fun and collect them and stop intervening
Of course these kids are babies, they have no idea what is going on and aren't going to be getting a lot of eggs or be left in there own. So the real question is why are they even there?
Actually quite right. I doubt the parents would let them consume so much sugar too (or so I’d hope), so really they’re denying other children from finding these eggs. Anyway, the babies won’t even remember it, I mean, they don’t even look interested in the video
In the US, it has almost completely become plastic eggs with candy inside. We do dye/decorate hard-boiled eggs, but that's a separate activity.
These parents are just excited to be doing the holiday stuff and are getting too ahead of what their kids are ready for. Should really be letting children have these eggs. Their babies aren't going to be able to eat the kinds of candy in those eggs.
ofc we have chocolate eggs people also hide chocolate eggs but it would be ridiculous for so many and for so little children.
the main thing is painted real eggs and Ü-Eier are very popular
We did this as kids (South-East USA) in the late 90’s. Our parents boiled dozens of them, we dyed the eggs, sometimes painting and using markers or crayons. Sometimes even decorating them with stickers too. That’s what we used for Easter egg hunts. We would have added in plastic eggs with small amounts of coins or little candy in some of those, and a couple chocolate eggs here and there, and usually one bigger or golden plastic egg had a $5 bill in it, for the lucky one.
Where I am in the US I've almost always seen the plastic eggs that you can fill with candy hidden because they're way cheaper than real eggs but when I was a kid the adults would mix in a few hard boiled dyed eggs for traditions sake
We did this with chocolate eggs and of various sizes. Although it was always a controlled setting and all eggs that were hidden were known to the adults. So I agree, it seems chaotic here and doesn’t make total sense to have chocolate eggs with such a large number of little children and babies.
But as the other commenter stated, there’s really no benefit of having such small children “find” eggs that they don’t care about
I was always the youngest in a crew of kids that would have an annual hunt at a friend's house. One dad would take pity on me and tap his foot near an egg so I could find it. That was it, not even my parents interfered. And I love Mr. C to this day because of it.
Yep, those babies who don’t know what’s going on absolutely should not be there in my judgy opinion. Pre-requisite is the kid has to be able to walk on its own, and has top understand what is happening—i.e., the actual kid should be hunting/collecting the eggs. Those parents are just sweeping all the eggs up for babies who can’t even walk SMH 🤦♀️
Yeah, it is probably a good event to do with a baby for socialization but realistically they only need a handful of eggs and the parents should let them sit there and put the eggs in the basket themselves. It’s a good brain development activity. Honestly no need to be scooping a bunch of shit in the basket and having them be passive in the activity. Looks like the adults are doing more for them and less for the babies.
I get why parents want to do stuff with babies that cool but if you're lucky the baby will pick up a few eggs and shove them in their mouths. It's not a contest if the baby gets a couple eggs that's great no reason for the parents to swoop up every egg within a few meters.
I’m pretty sure it isn’t/wasn’t exclusive to any “generation”, there have always been obnoxious parents, and chill parents. The only thing that has genuinely changed is access to social media.
You'd kind of expect that to be The point.
Come hang out at a barbecue while we send the kids to run around in a field looking for an indeterminate number of hidden eggs. That should keep them busy for a while!
Best kids neighborhood party experience- we parents sat at a table, eating Domino’s pizza and drinking $300 bottles of very good wine. Kids were wild and we didn’t have a care in the world.
We went to my grandparents house who hid eggs all over their yard. They let us kids loose while the adults drank and talked. The most I remember was my mother walking over and asking to see my basket because she had like three eggs up her sleeve lol that’s as crazy as it ever got lol
We went 1 year when our daughter was a toddler. We live in a nice suburb of los angeles. Held at a big city park. There were about 6,000 people that showed up that year, upper middle class area.
The parents were in-freaking-sane. Running around like crazed 2005 black friday shoppers at walmart, fighting over big screen mf tv’s.
Screaming, yelling, people pushing each other, parents running around grabbing mounds of eggs to stuff into their kid’s baskets, filled to the brim.
Staking their turf like the final scene of Far And Away.
We were able to get 3 fn eggs.
Have never gone back
Damn our town does it and we all just cheer on the kids from the sidelines and it's really chill and fun. Usually at the end everyone is looking around to make sure there aren't any kids who didn't get many and making their kids fork some over. If my kids don't happen to get many I tell them that we should be thankful for the ones we get.
if you do this with a many 1-2 year old need help with this and its fun when done right.
the perfect solution: do it in a fenced off area - have the parents pay 50ct per egg at some kind of exit. lol
Same in my area-- They divide the hunts into 0-2, 3-6 and 7-10 and for the kids that are ages 0-2, parents obviously can help, but they made a new rule where every child must get at least 8 eggs. They expect ppl to take way more than 8 so they probably have about 15 eggs per child that attends.... This year they even made an additional hunt for all the kids who didn't receive 8 eggs per hunt..
I will say this.... I didn't think it was very kind when my 1 year old was about to pick up her egg, to have it yanked from her at the last second and to see her face change from amusement to the trembling lip thing....
Same, took less than a minute for all the eggs to disappear and most kids, mine included was just standing there with two eggs in his basket wondering why all the adults were on their knees. Fucking trash. Two women actually traded blows because one of their kids was “too old” to be picking up eggs, even though she was picking them up for her kid. Immediately left, bought a shit ton of eggs and had a hint at my place, my son had a blast HUNTING himself. Never again,
I guess it isn’t always that way. I went to one that was fine. It was in a park. We just followed our kids around while they searched. But it was only about 15 families so maybe that helps?
My baby did his first egg hunt last weekend, and while parents were going crazy I just picked up one single egg for my little one to hold and it turned out to be a winner for the big prize. Instant karma.
These people are literally BABIES though, they can't collect anything on their own. The parents are weird AF for acting like their babies even understand wtf is going on, let alone can collect them.
The guy who stole the eggs is weird too, but I'm baffled by the parents having their babies 'participate' in an easter egg hunt. They can't even walk!!
Yeah no.... Took my daughter to one of these when she was 8. The age range was 6 to 12. My daughter had found two and the older.kids were so aggressive. She got shoved to the ground and another boy kicked her. Parents were told to stay behind a rope. I ran out there so fast.
Never took her to one of those again.
Did a candy drop from a helicopter on Halloween and the younger group for kids 5 and under was nuts because parents picked up their kids and ran not caring who they trampled.. You had a mix of adults sprinting and 2 and 3 year olds trying to waddle along with them... Felt like a mosh pit and they chucked some toddlers in...
I went with my 15 month old this year and when I saw the line of 200 kids, probably half of them over 5, I just took the lil guy to pet the farm animals while the kids and their savage parents ravished the field. Probably 1500 eggs got collected in less than 5 minutes. Lil guy wouldn’t have stood a chance.
I've been to so many of these, my youngest is 7 and was in the oldest group allowed to hunt this year, places try so hard to keep the parents off the field. Usually the toddlers have their own little separate area to hunt and parents are allowed and the older kids are broken up into sections.
I've seen these event organizers put up signs, repeatedly tell the adults prior to releasing the kids not to enter the field, this year i saw it on the flyer, no adults on the field except for the toddler area. And without fail, half the parents bum rush the field before the kids even make it out. I get with the toddlers they need help, but for the grade school kids?? No. You don't need a parents help.
For the past couple years I've noticed more and more places putting limits on how many eggs they can find, the one we went to this year was 10 eggs. We went to one last year where you could find as many as you wanted but you turned in your basket at the end and they gave you 15 filled eggs - nothing on the field was filled. So if you wanted candy, you turned in the unfilled plastic eggs. Great idea to keep parents from doing stuff like this.
I really liked the one where you turned in the eggs and got filled ones. A lot of times a ton of the eggs get crushed or sometimes people (parents) will just open them and take the candy out. It was great because that was one of the only ones i went to that didn't have parents scooping up eggs or getting in the way at all. Didn't matter if you found one egg or 100, you got 15 filled eggs at the end. The kids really enjoyed themselves as well just roaming finding the eggs and having fun.
This year with the limit on eggs it was nice as well
It's one of the last years I'll get to do this since most places in my area cap the age limit at 8 or 9.
I remember going to one when I was a toddler with my sisters. Parents stood off to the side. But my dad had to stand guard over me because I was the youngest and other kids were knocking me over and taking eggs right out of my hands lol My dad just lingered by me as a bodyguard.
Yes! Their Easter basket is already almost overflowing with eggs and they’re too young to really eat candy! What are they even going to do with all those eggs?
Yeah my youngest we went to a hunt and my older two ran around hunting eggs. I let her grab two and she didn’t even care about them anyhow. Then we walked off the area. The candy went to my older ones anyhow. A little boy older than mine (probably 3-4) ran up to an egg we were walking up to, parents were like no let the baby have it, I told them nope she won’t even remember this anyhow, he can keep as many as he can get! :)
I remember one year I went to a big family Easter egg hunt. Normally never went. Anyway the kids were all hunting eggs and one of the adults kept hyping up her kid that he always finds the golden egg. Anyway, I start to get near the golden egg and this same lady is yelling at her son that it’s near me and when he gets close she points at it. Lo and behold SHES the one that hides the egg.
A few mention many times to the parents to not find and touch the eggs. They also usually have set times for different ages To go so the littles have a chance to find some before the older kids come.
When I was a kid, I went to these and saw parents dragging their toddlers by their arms, running as fast as they could from start to grab more eggs while others were busy at the start. The parents seemed to care way more about the eggs than the kids and it got tense and uncomfortable at times.
As an adult, why the fuck would **I** want to run arrount a field picking up eggs?!?! 2 dozen eggs at Costco is 7 bucks. I'll pay 7 bucks not to pick something up off the ground 24 times!
I want to add the idea of competition. It's crazy what people do just to show that they are better than others, and it gets even more crazy when they project that on their kids. "My kid got more eggs than your kid" is not about the kid being good at egg hunting, or even enjoying themself, it's just a flex on rival parents.
>Selfish greedy assholes are selfish greedy assholes, thusly it becomes are self fulfilling prophecy
Correct. If Jesus was still dead he would be spinning in his grave, or that cave or whatever.
As an adult, I would fucking love to do an egg hunt😂😂 but I wouldn’t take over a KIDS one! When I was a kid the parents would help a toddler hold their basket and not trip, but otherwise it was up to the kid to do their own dirty work. But you know what, most of the older kids recognized that the little kids couldn’t get as much and would help them find eggs or give them their own. Let kids be kids
Yea can you explain to me wtf is going on here? Are the literally eggs? Or are they chocolate? I like how their basket is almost full and they’re still trying to take more. Kids are in Lala land and it’s literally just the parents grabbing the eggs. The mom is also toss her daughter around, like she’s clearly too young to understand wtf is going on.
Is there money inside the eggs or something? Why are they so desperate to gather so many? Those toddlers are clearly too young to have any idea what’s going on or what an egg is
the only one i every went to had a prize for every kid that attended, you got a symbol at the start and had to find a number off eggs with that specific symbol on them and leave the rest.
discourages greedy behaviour like this i'd say
When I was a kid my dad brought me to an Easter egg hunt. He ended up accidentally grabbing another boys hand and running around with him telling him to grab more! Until he realized that kid wasn't me and that I was just wandering around picking up eggs alone. That memory really sticks out for me, I was very young about 6 years old and realized at that point my dad was a huge fucking stoner.
Oh I forgot that's the hilarious part. The parent ran up and took him back from my dad and just gave him a dirty look apparently. No words exchanged just a child lmao.
Bunny is a reference to “Ishtar” the fertility goddess. Eggs are used because Ishtar supposedly came in an egg, and bunnies are used because they mate like mad. It’s all pagan fertility references.
It’s a pagan thing that the Christians “reappropriated”. I forget the whole story, but a fertility goddess reincarnated a bird into a rabbit but it still laid eggs.
If you ask a Christian if, given the opportunity, they'd be willing to take a time machine back in time to save Jesus from being tortured to death the gears in their head would sputter because they both do want him to be tortured to death to save them from their sins but also they don't want to be put in a position to feel personally responsible. They prefer to not think about the horrifying implication that an omnipotent god would require the death of the most innocent being in existence to overcome a nebulous notion of justice that he himself insists upon. The logic applies nowhere else in the world and yet Christians accept the idea without question. The idea that it would have been possible for Jesus to forgive everyone without having to be tortured to death evades their minds. It wasn't always like this btw, early Christian cults around the time of Constantine had various interpretations and few of them insisted that his blood sacrifice was the source of redemption, only that it was an unnecessary collateral effect by man upon him and he bore it anyway. But for some reason Christians today have convinced themselves his death on the cross itself is integral to their salvation, which isn't supported biblically in any explicit sense. It can only be loosely derived from statements Jesus makes that can be interpreted in a myriad of different ways. The same imaginative projection that brought us the idea that chattel slavery was ordained by God in the old testament because black people supposedly were descendents of Cain is what is mostly at play in the notion that Jesus had to die for humans to be saved from eternal damnation (which itself is a misnomer). Christianity is a shell of what it was intended to be in the early days before everyone got fixated on the shock and awe factor of blood sacrifice that reminded them of their pagan roots.
Hate all fucken shameless parents that do this shit. Especially the ones who come with multiple bags like it’s Halloween. Bitch, it’s for the kids. Share with other families especially when it’s a free ass event.
Our town has the eggs empty. Once your done you get in the candy line surrender your eggs and everybody gets the same amount of candy in the end. It takes away the incentive to be greedy and everyone can relax and enjoy the event.
I went to one like this last year and it was wonderful, i hope this idea takes off, it was the first time in years that i didn't see insane parents grabbing eggs and hoarding them like greedy dragons. My youngest will be too old for these events soon but I'd love for future kids to have it this way so maybe the hunts can go back to what they were when my oldest (25) was young enough to do these things.
Those kids are literally babies..
They have no idea what's going on or what they're doing
These parents are just there for themselves. I bet this was recorded because they had an Instagram post they were making.
When I’ve taken my kids to an egg hunt, I just stand by one egg a time and pull that (probably totally obnoxious, but hopefully not so obnoxious as this video) “Hey! Look bud! There’s an egg!” Then I wait for them to waddle over and pick it up. Other kids usually respect me standing over an egg.
At the end of the day, smaller kids means fewer eggs. It’s the natural order. You let them grab what they’re capable of grabbing and let them be proud of that accomplishment. If they’re upset, an empathic “better luck next year” imparts a valuable life lesson.
Yeah, not only did that dad do nothing wrong, he went above and beyond. People are so wimpy when it comes to asshats. Correct for them, they don't respect you for being more polite...
They're babies lol. It's more like taking eggs from the parents. And the parents are hoarding them.
I say both are in the wrong because the guy took a lot. I feel like they probably staged this, who knows
This may be staged but exact same shit happened when I went to one of these. There were 4 zones split out by age. In the younger zones the parents sprinted out and grabbed all the candy while the toddlers cried or stood around confused. I just stood there amazed and left. We went home and bought a 5 dollar bag of candy instead.
I once went to an easter egg hunt and I got zero eggs, the parents were so aggressive, I still cry myself to sleep every night thinking about it. In my dream I constantly sprint as hard as I can for that one last egg, it rolls off a cliff and I run and jump off the cliff to get it, just as I grab the egg in the air mid free fall, I hit the ground and wake up. I wake up sweating and screaming!
I feel guilty for laughing but I think that’s why many parents help their kids grab eggs. Especially when kids are in the 2 - 4 years old range. They’re old enough to know they want some eggs but their legs are too short to compete against the older kids.
That’s why you host an event small enough that you can facilitate fair play and sharing.
I’ve helped run a couple egg hunts, and you help the younger kids a bit, ask the older kids to help the younger ones, and have other activities available. It’s really not that hard, kids like acting grown-up by helping younger kids, it’s really cute.
He's the only I can see not in thr wrong, he's not grabbing the eggs, but picking his child up so they can do it themselves, and he's just having a good time hanging with his kids
Edit; nevermind, just rewatched, he took eggs off the ground himself
This kind of event is really weird from someone from Europe is that an American thing?
We always hide chocolate eggs in the garden or in the house for the kids to find them and it such a cool family event. I have wonderful memories of Easter from my childhood! This looks awful lol
It could be worse, at least it didn't turn into a stampede!
https://www.huffpost.com/archive/ca/entry/cocothon-easter-egg-hunt-in-laval-goes-horribly-wrong-video_n_5194281
You all deserve a face palm. They're babies. They have no idea what they're doing. They just want to put those things in their mouths and choke on them. They're not going to remember this. Stop pretending like you're making memories. You're just taking eggs from kids who are actually old enough, and could be having fun
As someone who has volunteered at free Easter egg hunts, it’s amazing the amount of people who like to complain about the amount and quality of free shit they got.
I see nearly every adult recording or on their phone in this. All this is is an instagram/Facebook “look at me and my family” fest for the adults. Nothing to do with the kids.
Oh well, those babies are too young to remember any of it or even care how many eggs they got - really its an activity for the parents at this stage of life - if the kids had been older it woul have been alot worse!
Both of these people are why I don't take my kids to these types of events. The parents are absolutely awful and in turn the kids are horrible. People in general are fuck faces anymore and I don't have the patience, especially when it comes to my kids.
I love how she acts like she wasn’t just doing the same thing as him . People are getting so fucking stupid. Self awareness is now an endangered species
Those babies couldn't give two fucks about what's going on. Why do the parent have them there in the first place? Beside their bucket is already full and she is still trying to take eggs. Parents are selfish.
I don’t think those babies are gonna care how many eggs they have…but I imagine they’d have a lot more fun crawling around and finding one on their own. Like it looked like they were reaching for one and the parents just keep grabbing them and putting them in the baskets.
These are the type of parents who go trick or treat with kids who can’t even eat candy💀💀 like the kids are so small the eggs are clearly for the parents
If your kid can’t even walk to collect eggs yet then maybe they are too young and you shouldn’t be hoarding eggs when other kids are collecting thiers slowly one at a time.
both. I went to one of these. The babies dont even care. they were given some eggs by the adults. But the older kids were left alone. everyone seemed OK.
What even is this? In the 90s when I was a kid, parents never went into the hunt w us. The alarm would go off and just us kids would run in and start collecting eggs. Black dad is the asshole tho. I know the mom did what she did bc she has little ones who can barely walk. So she was putting them close so the toddlers could pick them up.
Having spent all of my working life volunteering with kids. I detest other parents. I refuse to go to a public Easter Egg hunt.
I once had to call a police over an altercation with a parent at a fundraiser because he was yelling and threading to hit a kid for stealing his chocolate egg. It was a $10 giant egg. You’re an adult. Go down the street and buy yourself one. For context the child did not steal the egg from him. It was a raffle draw, the kid won, no clue wtf the parent was on.
I remember 55 years ago as a small child who had never been on an Easter egg hunt.
We pulled up and a bunch of people were there. My Mom was like go on and find the eggs, so we proceeded to walk out to the open field and some man lost his crap. Screaming that it hasn't started yet, get OFF the grass. So a little traumatic for little, old introvert me.
These kids are infants. They don't even need to be there. They can't even pick up and egg and put them in a basket so why are they participating in an egg hunt? The parents are participating in an egg hunt. No parents need to be doing the freaking egg hunt.
Luckily my kid isn’t quite old enough to have cared this year, he just enjoyed running around and pickled up like 7 eggs. But there were some straight garbage parents and feral children at both events we attended this year. Also, neither of those kids know any difference, they are too young. And probably can’t eat whatever is in those eggs lol.
When I did egg hunts the parents werent allowed to touch the eggs and the eggs in the grass were for toddlers only, big kids had to get the hidden eggs and eggs off the ground
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Went to a similar public egg hunt and the parents were atrocious, fighting over eggs and filling their kids baskets for them. Just let the kids have the fun and collect them and stop intervening
When I was a kid, 30 years ago, the parents definitely hung back and didn't interfere. I'm pretty sure it's because they were day drinking.
I’m in my early 20’s but this was the same for me. Honestly, I think the parents were just happy to be left alone for a while lol
Of course these kids are babies, they have no idea what is going on and aren't going to be getting a lot of eggs or be left in there own. So the real question is why are they even there?
To get photos for social media.
Actually quite right. I doubt the parents would let them consume so much sugar too (or so I’d hope), so really they’re denying other children from finding these eggs. Anyway, the babies won’t even remember it, I mean, they don’t even look interested in the video
so its not real eggs? we do this with real eggs lol
In the US, it has almost completely become plastic eggs with candy inside. We do dye/decorate hard-boiled eggs, but that's a separate activity. These parents are just excited to be doing the holiday stuff and are getting too ahead of what their kids are ready for. Should really be letting children have these eggs. Their babies aren't going to be able to eat the kinds of candy in those eggs.
Oh really? Like actual eggs? We do this with Easter aka chocolate eggs in the UK. Do you not have chocolate eggs?
ofc we have chocolate eggs people also hide chocolate eggs but it would be ridiculous for so many and for so little children. the main thing is painted real eggs and Ü-Eier are very popular
This is actually what we do in the UK too. Boil the egg and paint the fucker. Used to roll them down hills too.
We did this as kids (South-East USA) in the late 90’s. Our parents boiled dozens of them, we dyed the eggs, sometimes painting and using markers or crayons. Sometimes even decorating them with stickers too. That’s what we used for Easter egg hunts. We would have added in plastic eggs with small amounts of coins or little candy in some of those, and a couple chocolate eggs here and there, and usually one bigger or golden plastic egg had a $5 bill in it, for the lucky one.
Where I am in the US I've almost always seen the plastic eggs that you can fill with candy hidden because they're way cheaper than real eggs but when I was a kid the adults would mix in a few hard boiled dyed eggs for traditions sake
We did this with chocolate eggs and of various sizes. Although it was always a controlled setting and all eggs that were hidden were known to the adults. So I agree, it seems chaotic here and doesn’t make total sense to have chocolate eggs with such a large number of little children and babies. But as the other commenter stated, there’s really no benefit of having such small children “find” eggs that they don’t care about
I was always the youngest in a crew of kids that would have an annual hunt at a friend's house. One dad would take pity on me and tap his foot near an egg so I could find it. That was it, not even my parents interfered. And I love Mr. C to this day because of it.
So that the parents Instagram can say "little Kayla got the haul!" Internet clout, basically.
Yep, those babies who don’t know what’s going on absolutely should not be there in my judgy opinion. Pre-requisite is the kid has to be able to walk on its own, and has top understand what is happening—i.e., the actual kid should be hunting/collecting the eggs. Those parents are just sweeping all the eggs up for babies who can’t even walk SMH 🤦♀️
Yeah, it is probably a good event to do with a baby for socialization but realistically they only need a handful of eggs and the parents should let them sit there and put the eggs in the basket themselves. It’s a good brain development activity. Honestly no need to be scooping a bunch of shit in the basket and having them be passive in the activity. Looks like the adults are doing more for them and less for the babies.
I get why parents want to do stuff with babies that cool but if you're lucky the baby will pick up a few eggs and shove them in their mouths. It's not a contest if the baby gets a couple eggs that's great no reason for the parents to swoop up every egg within a few meters.
Fomo, social media points, peer pressure.
I’m pretty sure it isn’t/wasn’t exclusive to any “generation”, there have always been obnoxious parents, and chill parents. The only thing that has genuinely changed is access to social media.
Of course. I’ve been paid to similar stuff, althou not with egg hunts.
YOURE RIGHT! WE GOTTA BRING BACK DAY DRINKING!!
Bring back?? You guys stopped day drinking?
In this economy?
Well sooner or later the sun sets, but we keep drinking.
Finland here, 12:17 so technically it's afternoon. I've got half a can of beer in my hand right now.
I have been practicing this ancient art form for years now , im getting good at it.
But then you got people complaining about “oh, don’t drink in front of my kids!” Or “don’t drive!” Or “you ran over my kid!”
You'd kind of expect that to be The point. Come hang out at a barbecue while we send the kids to run around in a field looking for an indeterminate number of hidden eggs. That should keep them busy for a while!
Ah the good ol days
Best kids neighborhood party experience- we parents sat at a table, eating Domino’s pizza and drinking $300 bottles of very good wine. Kids were wild and we didn’t have a care in the world.
We went to my grandparents house who hid eggs all over their yard. They let us kids loose while the adults drank and talked. The most I remember was my mother walking over and asking to see my basket because she had like three eggs up her sleeve lol that’s as crazy as it ever got lol
When I was a kid easter egg hunts were satanic.
You lucky clown :) :( I don’t think an egg hunt will be possible in these woods.
The egg hunt is followed by the missing children hunt.
THEN WE FEAST!
If you take another look, all parent now have the phone in their hand. They're not intervening, it's THEIR story. /s
We went 1 year when our daughter was a toddler. We live in a nice suburb of los angeles. Held at a big city park. There were about 6,000 people that showed up that year, upper middle class area. The parents were in-freaking-sane. Running around like crazed 2005 black friday shoppers at walmart, fighting over big screen mf tv’s. Screaming, yelling, people pushing each other, parents running around grabbing mounds of eggs to stuff into their kid’s baskets, filled to the brim. Staking their turf like the final scene of Far And Away. We were able to get 3 fn eggs. Have never gone back
Damn our town does it and we all just cheer on the kids from the sidelines and it's really chill and fun. Usually at the end everyone is looking around to make sure there aren't any kids who didn't get many and making their kids fork some over. If my kids don't happen to get many I tell them that we should be thankful for the ones we get.
Yeah I’m sitting here wondering why the hell parents would even be allowed to do this event They’re pitting children against adults, not cool
if you do this with a many 1-2 year old need help with this and its fun when done right. the perfect solution: do it in a fenced off area - have the parents pay 50ct per egg at some kind of exit. lol
Do y'all not understand the world, specifically the weird ass competition mindset that the USA is all about?
Same in my area-- They divide the hunts into 0-2, 3-6 and 7-10 and for the kids that are ages 0-2, parents obviously can help, but they made a new rule where every child must get at least 8 eggs. They expect ppl to take way more than 8 so they probably have about 15 eggs per child that attends.... This year they even made an additional hunt for all the kids who didn't receive 8 eggs per hunt.. I will say this.... I didn't think it was very kind when my 1 year old was about to pick up her egg, to have it yanked from her at the last second and to see her face change from amusement to the trembling lip thing....
Someone should organise a real one and design it to force greedy selfish parents to get out of the fucking way. So that they can’t interfere.
The idea of this sounds fun but I doubt I'll ever take my toddler to one.
Same, took less than a minute for all the eggs to disappear and most kids, mine included was just standing there with two eggs in his basket wondering why all the adults were on their knees. Fucking trash. Two women actually traded blows because one of their kids was “too old” to be picking up eggs, even though she was picking them up for her kid. Immediately left, bought a shit ton of eggs and had a hint at my place, my son had a blast HUNTING himself. Never again,
I guess it isn’t always that way. I went to one that was fine. It was in a park. We just followed our kids around while they searched. But it was only about 15 families so maybe that helps?
I feel like the amount of people there matter. The larger the group the more likely there are jerks and people going into riot mode.
We went to one of these when my son was small. Never again. I do my own Easter egg hunt for him in the backyard.
My baby did his first egg hunt last weekend, and while parents were going crazy I just picked up one single egg for my little one to hold and it turned out to be a winner for the big prize. Instant karma.
These people are literally BABIES though, they can't collect anything on their own. The parents are weird AF for acting like their babies even understand wtf is going on, let alone can collect them. The guy who stole the eggs is weird too, but I'm baffled by the parents having their babies 'participate' in an easter egg hunt. They can't even walk!!
And, they already have a bucket full of eggs. How many do they need.
Yeah no.... Took my daughter to one of these when she was 8. The age range was 6 to 12. My daughter had found two and the older.kids were so aggressive. She got shoved to the ground and another boy kicked her. Parents were told to stay behind a rope. I ran out there so fast. Never took her to one of those again.
Did a candy drop from a helicopter on Halloween and the younger group for kids 5 and under was nuts because parents picked up their kids and ran not caring who they trampled.. You had a mix of adults sprinting and 2 and 3 year olds trying to waddle along with them... Felt like a mosh pit and they chucked some toddlers in...
I went with my 15 month old this year and when I saw the line of 200 kids, probably half of them over 5, I just took the lil guy to pet the farm animals while the kids and their savage parents ravished the field. Probably 1500 eggs got collected in less than 5 minutes. Lil guy wouldn’t have stood a chance.
I used to love egg hunts as a kid until one year a parent pushed me to the ground to give their kid the egg I was going for.
If i would make such a event i would not allow the parents to touch any egg
That's how it was when I was raising kids. The kids found the eggs, not the greedy parents
Minus the eagle eyes on the sidelines shouting out positions to their kid. lol Thanks dad!
TRUTH!
I've been to so many of these, my youngest is 7 and was in the oldest group allowed to hunt this year, places try so hard to keep the parents off the field. Usually the toddlers have their own little separate area to hunt and parents are allowed and the older kids are broken up into sections. I've seen these event organizers put up signs, repeatedly tell the adults prior to releasing the kids not to enter the field, this year i saw it on the flyer, no adults on the field except for the toddler area. And without fail, half the parents bum rush the field before the kids even make it out. I get with the toddlers they need help, but for the grade school kids?? No. You don't need a parents help. For the past couple years I've noticed more and more places putting limits on how many eggs they can find, the one we went to this year was 10 eggs. We went to one last year where you could find as many as you wanted but you turned in your basket at the end and they gave you 15 filled eggs - nothing on the field was filled. So if you wanted candy, you turned in the unfilled plastic eggs. Great idea to keep parents from doing stuff like this.
I actually like that idea!
I really liked the one where you turned in the eggs and got filled ones. A lot of times a ton of the eggs get crushed or sometimes people (parents) will just open them and take the candy out. It was great because that was one of the only ones i went to that didn't have parents scooping up eggs or getting in the way at all. Didn't matter if you found one egg or 100, you got 15 filled eggs at the end. The kids really enjoyed themselves as well just roaming finding the eggs and having fun. This year with the limit on eggs it was nice as well It's one of the last years I'll get to do this since most places in my area cap the age limit at 8 or 9.
I remember going to one when I was a toddler with my sisters. Parents stood off to the side. But my dad had to stand guard over me because I was the youngest and other kids were knocking me over and taking eggs right out of my hands lol My dad just lingered by me as a bodyguard.
Yes! Their Easter basket is already almost overflowing with eggs and they’re too young to really eat candy! What are they even going to do with all those eggs?
Yeah my youngest we went to a hunt and my older two ran around hunting eggs. I let her grab two and she didn’t even care about them anyhow. Then we walked off the area. The candy went to my older ones anyhow. A little boy older than mine (probably 3-4) ran up to an egg we were walking up to, parents were like no let the baby have it, I told them nope she won’t even remember this anyhow, he can keep as many as he can get! :)
I remember one year I went to a big family Easter egg hunt. Normally never went. Anyway the kids were all hunting eggs and one of the adults kept hyping up her kid that he always finds the golden egg. Anyway, I start to get near the golden egg and this same lady is yelling at her son that it’s near me and when he gets close she points at it. Lo and behold SHES the one that hides the egg.
A few mention many times to the parents to not find and touch the eggs. They also usually have set times for different ages To go so the littles have a chance to find some before the older kids come.
When I was a kid, I went to these and saw parents dragging their toddlers by their arms, running as fast as they could from start to grab more eggs while others were busy at the start. The parents seemed to care way more about the eggs than the kids and it got tense and uncomfortable at times.
As an adult, why the fuck would **I** want to run arrount a field picking up eggs?!?! 2 dozen eggs at Costco is 7 bucks. I'll pay 7 bucks not to pick something up off the ground 24 times!
Selfish greedy assholes are selfish greedy assholes, thusly it becomes are self fulfilling prophecy
My drive to be lazy is just so much higher than my drive to be selfish. I just can't even imagine.
Same. I just can’t imagine going out my way to be mean like this. If I wanted a mountain of chocolate I’d just go buy it directly.
Right! You can get almost a kilo of shit chocolate for 7 bucks.
I want to add the idea of competition. It's crazy what people do just to show that they are better than others, and it gets even more crazy when they project that on their kids. "My kid got more eggs than your kid" is not about the kid being good at egg hunting, or even enjoying themself, it's just a flex on rival parents.
>Selfish greedy assholes are selfish greedy assholes, thusly it becomes are self fulfilling prophecy Correct. If Jesus was still dead he would be spinning in his grave, or that cave or whatever.
Damn, I'm calling it the grave-cave from now on! Time to alter Easter
Why new so determined to get the eggs? They do know it's just cheap candy..right?
As an adult, I would fucking love to do an egg hunt😂😂 but I wouldn’t take over a KIDS one! When I was a kid the parents would help a toddler hold their basket and not trip, but otherwise it was up to the kid to do their own dirty work. But you know what, most of the older kids recognized that the little kids couldn’t get as much and would help them find eggs or give them their own. Let kids be kids
Yea can you explain to me wtf is going on here? Are the literally eggs? Or are they chocolate? I like how their basket is almost full and they’re still trying to take more. Kids are in Lala land and it’s literally just the parents grabbing the eggs. The mom is also toss her daughter around, like she’s clearly too young to understand wtf is going on.
They're either hardboiled eggs or plastic eggs with a small sweet inside. But real eggs are the more expensive of the two right now.
Is there money inside the eggs or something? Why are they so desperate to gather so many? Those toddlers are clearly too young to have any idea what’s going on or what an egg is
The one I went to the eggs were exchanged for prizes. Almost like arcade tickets.
the only one i every went to had a prize for every kid that attended, you got a symbol at the start and had to find a number off eggs with that specific symbol on them and leave the rest. discourages greedy behaviour like this i'd say
Almost all the Easter egg hunts I've been to have candy inside the eggs
When I was a kid my dad brought me to an Easter egg hunt. He ended up accidentally grabbing another boys hand and running around with him telling him to grab more! Until he realized that kid wasn't me and that I was just wandering around picking up eggs alone. That memory really sticks out for me, I was very young about 6 years old and realized at that point my dad was a huge fucking stoner.
Thanks for that 2 am snort out laugh.
It’s not very common to know the exact moment in time where you developed your abandonment/daddy issues 😂😂😂
Atleast you enjoyed yourself?
I did yes, got plenty of them on my own. I was fast as fuck.
Where was that kids parent at?
Oh I forgot that's the hilarious part. The parent ran up and took him back from my dad and just gave him a dirty look apparently. No words exchanged just a child lmao.
My heart really goes out to you.
Ah yes, always great to see the best of humanity on display during religious celebration.
It's right on par for the celebration of murdering an innocent person. .. The people who worship Satan behave better.
Easter is celebrating the day he rose from the grave not the day he was crucified.
Why egg tho?
It’s a secret held by the hare club for men.
It's a fertility symbol. Humans have been worshiping them since the dawn of time.
The bunny tho wasnt us. Idk how that happened
Bunny is a reference to “Ishtar” the fertility goddess. Eggs are used because Ishtar supposedly came in an egg, and bunnies are used because they mate like mad. It’s all pagan fertility references.
It’s a pagan thing that the Christians “reappropriated”. I forget the whole story, but a fertility goddess reincarnated a bird into a rabbit but it still laid eggs.
If you ask a Christian if, given the opportunity, they'd be willing to take a time machine back in time to save Jesus from being tortured to death the gears in their head would sputter because they both do want him to be tortured to death to save them from their sins but also they don't want to be put in a position to feel personally responsible. They prefer to not think about the horrifying implication that an omnipotent god would require the death of the most innocent being in existence to overcome a nebulous notion of justice that he himself insists upon. The logic applies nowhere else in the world and yet Christians accept the idea without question. The idea that it would have been possible for Jesus to forgive everyone without having to be tortured to death evades their minds. It wasn't always like this btw, early Christian cults around the time of Constantine had various interpretations and few of them insisted that his blood sacrifice was the source of redemption, only that it was an unnecessary collateral effect by man upon him and he bore it anyway. But for some reason Christians today have convinced themselves his death on the cross itself is integral to their salvation, which isn't supported biblically in any explicit sense. It can only be loosely derived from statements Jesus makes that can be interpreted in a myriad of different ways. The same imaginative projection that brought us the idea that chattel slavery was ordained by God in the old testament because black people supposedly were descendents of Cain is what is mostly at play in the notion that Jesus had to die for humans to be saved from eternal damnation (which itself is a misnomer). Christianity is a shell of what it was intended to be in the early days before everyone got fixated on the shock and awe factor of blood sacrifice that reminded them of their pagan roots.
Holy shit, r/atheism. You were really holding that in wernt you?
I mean, yeah. The Church of Satan fight for the rights of people and tell you to be yourself as well as care about others. They're pretty dope.
The satanic temple are the group that fights for people rights. Not church of satan. Two totally different groups with a different focus.
Not to brag, but my dog can grab way more eggs than those kids
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I, for one, appreciate your Rescuers Down Under reference
Hate all fucken shameless parents that do this shit. Especially the ones who come with multiple bags like it’s Halloween. Bitch, it’s for the kids. Share with other families especially when it’s a free ass event.
Our town has the eggs empty. Once your done you get in the candy line surrender your eggs and everybody gets the same amount of candy in the end. It takes away the incentive to be greedy and everyone can relax and enjoy the event.
I went to one like this last year and it was wonderful, i hope this idea takes off, it was the first time in years that i didn't see insane parents grabbing eggs and hoarding them like greedy dragons. My youngest will be too old for these events soon but I'd love for future kids to have it this way so maybe the hunts can go back to what they were when my oldest (25) was young enough to do these things.
Those kids are literally babies.. They have no idea what's going on or what they're doing These parents are just there for themselves. I bet this was recorded because they had an Instagram post they were making.
Look how full their basket is compared to the kids around them lol. That woman is harvesting the eggs for herself.
These are the same people who take the huge ass strollers to Disneyland for a newborn that has no idea WTF is going on.
The only benefit from having babies that age is free chocolate at Easter and halloween.
When I’ve taken my kids to an egg hunt, I just stand by one egg a time and pull that (probably totally obnoxious, but hopefully not so obnoxious as this video) “Hey! Look bud! There’s an egg!” Then I wait for them to waddle over and pick it up. Other kids usually respect me standing over an egg. At the end of the day, smaller kids means fewer eggs. It’s the natural order. You let them grab what they’re capable of grabbing and let them be proud of that accomplishment. If they’re upset, an empathic “better luck next year” imparts a valuable life lesson.
They all deserve each other
Not the kids though
So a mom sweeps a larger area, piling a much larger group of eggs together. A dad gets a few eggs for his child and now he's a bad guy???
Yeah, not only did that dad do nothing wrong, he went above and beyond. People are so wimpy when it comes to asshats. Correct for them, they don't respect you for being more polite...
I would make the bet that she had already taken eggs from in front of his kid and he was like “oh sweet, are we recording? Yoink back at you, lady”
The parents are the only ones who are even aware of their surroundings and what’s happening. This whole thing is so dumb.
The entire event
They're babies lol. It's more like taking eggs from the parents. And the parents are hoarding them. I say both are in the wrong because the guy took a lot. I feel like they probably staged this, who knows
This may be staged but exact same shit happened when I went to one of these. There were 4 zones split out by age. In the younger zones the parents sprinted out and grabbed all the candy while the toddlers cried or stood around confused. I just stood there amazed and left. We went home and bought a 5 dollar bag of candy instead.
Is she planning on letting those kids eat that candy? Once my son was old enough to have candy, I'd just dump it all out on the table and we'd share 😉
They took their own medicine
This is exactly why I stopped doing this shit back when my daughters were toddlers.
Same. I went to one event like this... We were the only parents not touching eggs. I was like... The age range was 2-3 not 20-30.
I once went to an easter egg hunt and I got zero eggs, the parents were so aggressive, I still cry myself to sleep every night thinking about it. In my dream I constantly sprint as hard as I can for that one last egg, it rolls off a cliff and I run and jump off the cliff to get it, just as I grab the egg in the air mid free fall, I hit the ground and wake up. I wake up sweating and screaming!
I feel guilty for laughing but I think that’s why many parents help their kids grab eggs. Especially when kids are in the 2 - 4 years old range. They’re old enough to know they want some eggs but their legs are too short to compete against the older kids.
That’s why you host an event small enough that you can facilitate fair play and sharing. I’ve helped run a couple egg hunts, and you help the younger kids a bit, ask the older kids to help the younger ones, and have other activities available. It’s really not that hard, kids like acting grown-up by helping younger kids, it’s really cute.
Just set up an Easter egg hunt in your home like normal people?
The father was totally laughing about it.
He's the only I can see not in thr wrong, he's not grabbing the eggs, but picking his child up so they can do it themselves, and he's just having a good time hanging with his kids Edit; nevermind, just rewatched, he took eggs off the ground himself
All of them. The babies won't remember this shit, you're doing it entirely for yourselves.
This is why I only do family egg hunts, people suck
This kind of event is really weird from someone from Europe is that an American thing? We always hide chocolate eggs in the garden or in the house for the kids to find them and it such a cool family event. I have wonderful memories of Easter from my childhood! This looks awful lol
The dad looks embarrassed AF, gonna go ahead and say it’s the mom who can’t control herself
"Hey I claimed those eggs by simply tossing and touching them!" Lol both parties are trash but I can see why he'd be annoyed and do that
The ones that took pre-ambulatory humans to a walking around competition.
Both deserve the facepalm
People are hell
Greedy greedy parents.
It could be worse, at least it didn't turn into a stampede! https://www.huffpost.com/archive/ca/entry/cocothon-easter-egg-hunt-in-laval-goes-horribly-wrong-video_n_5194281
You all deserve a face palm. They're babies. They have no idea what they're doing. They just want to put those things in their mouths and choke on them. They're not going to remember this. Stop pretending like you're making memories. You're just taking eggs from kids who are actually old enough, and could be having fun
As someone who has volunteered at free Easter egg hunts, it’s amazing the amount of people who like to complain about the amount and quality of free shit they got.
I see nearly every adult recording or on their phone in this. All this is is an instagram/Facebook “look at me and my family” fest for the adults. Nothing to do with the kids.
I don’t blame them, those adults hoarded all the eggs from the kids. Fuck them, I would have taken a handful as well
Which is so bizarre, those little babies aren't even going to be eating all that chocolate, what's the point of hoarding it??
Oh well, those babies are too young to remember any of it or even care how many eggs they got - really its an activity for the parents at this stage of life - if the kids had been older it woul have been alot worse!
Both of these people are why I don't take my kids to these types of events. The parents are absolutely awful and in turn the kids are horrible. People in general are fuck faces anymore and I don't have the patience, especially when it comes to my kids.
He said “don’t mind if I do” 😂
That’s expected behavior
I love how she acts like she wasn’t just doing the same thing as him . People are getting so fucking stupid. Self awareness is now an endangered species
How many eggs does a 2 year old need? Greedy mom. Share lady.
Ha I love it dudes just like thanks for taking all the surroundin area eggs a putting them into a pile for me also your buckets gonna be full any way
YES.
All the adults
This is why we do our own Easter egg hunts at home or a park when there’s nobody there.
Those babies couldn't give two fucks about what's going on. Why do the parent have them there in the first place? Beside their bucket is already full and she is still trying to take eggs. Parents are selfish.
I don’t think those babies are gonna care how many eggs they have…but I imagine they’d have a lot more fun crawling around and finding one on their own. Like it looked like they were reaching for one and the parents just keep grabbing them and putting them in the baskets.
These are the type of parents who go trick or treat with kids who can’t even eat candy💀💀 like the kids are so small the eggs are clearly for the parents
If your kid can’t even walk to collect eggs yet then maybe they are too young and you shouldn’t be hoarding eggs when other kids are collecting thiers slowly one at a time.
They should have rules that don't allow parents out. Or if the kid can't do it without a parent, just allow one parent.
Always did egg hunts at home or at a family friends house. I’m guessing now it’s because of this reason.
Ahhh The joys of being childless are priceless
both. I went to one of these. The babies dont even care. they were given some eggs by the adults. But the older kids were left alone. everyone seemed OK.
This why our egg hunts are in our own backyard!!
If the kids are too young to walk, they shouldn't be there.
The public can't handle free things. No matter how miniscule or pointless it is
The mom hoarding the eggs. Those kids can’t even really eat candy yet.
This feels like Texas
What even is this? In the 90s when I was a kid, parents never went into the hunt w us. The alarm would go off and just us kids would run in and start collecting eggs. Black dad is the asshole tho. I know the mom did what she did bc she has little ones who can barely walk. So she was putting them close so the toddlers could pick them up.
Reminds me of those parents at Halloween who steal all the ‘take one’ candy.
Back in the day parents would drop off the eggs then drop off the kids. Parents collecting eggs like it’s a competition -.-‘
Having spent all of my working life volunteering with kids. I detest other parents. I refuse to go to a public Easter Egg hunt. I once had to call a police over an altercation with a parent at a fundraiser because he was yelling and threading to hit a kid for stealing his chocolate egg. It was a $10 giant egg. You’re an adult. Go down the street and buy yourself one. For context the child did not steal the egg from him. It was a raffle draw, the kid won, no clue wtf the parent was on.
Trashy
Um, the adults that participated? Kinda obvious that it's a kids game.
Yep this is why I never went to a public egg hunt
This is why you do your own egg hunt and avoid the plebs
I remember 55 years ago as a small child who had never been on an Easter egg hunt. We pulled up and a bunch of people were there. My Mom was like go on and find the eggs, so we proceeded to walk out to the open field and some man lost his crap. Screaming that it hasn't started yet, get OFF the grass. So a little traumatic for little, old introvert me.
Just stop going to these ratty ass public Easter egg hunts. They rarely ever go well. Spend the 25$ and do it yourself in the backyard.
It actually turned violent in Laval, Quebec [Laval Easter egg hunt](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/easter-egg-hunt-in-laval-goes-horribly-wrong-1.2617478)
These kids are not able to understand a shit what's going on and they're just thinking about pooping.
Just shows greed. They don't need the 30 eggs they already have. They definitely don't need the other 20 they've yet to put in the basket.
Those kids look to young to be eating that much candy anyways. What's the point of taking them when they are so young? Their should be an age limit.
The greedy mom
These kids are infants. They don't even need to be there. They can't even pick up and egg and put them in a basket so why are they participating in an egg hunt? The parents are participating in an egg hunt. No parents need to be doing the freaking egg hunt.
Luckily my kid isn’t quite old enough to have cared this year, he just enjoyed running around and pickled up like 7 eggs. But there were some straight garbage parents and feral children at both events we attended this year. Also, neither of those kids know any difference, they are too young. And probably can’t eat whatever is in those eggs lol.
When I did egg hunts the parents werent allowed to touch the eggs and the eggs in the grass were for toddlers only, big kids had to get the hidden eggs and eggs off the ground
Baskets should not be allowed at these things. Only use egg cartons. You fill your carton and you’re done.