Easter Egg Hunts can be dangerous….

Have you ever been to an Easter Egg Hunt put on by some group?  It is wicked… the grabbing of the eggs,  pushing shoving… angry voice… it is scary…. And that is the parents… 

Luckily they came up with a idea to divide the groups by ages.  So the 8 to 12 are in one group… 7 to 5 another and the 4 and under.. another..  Trouble is .. the 4 and under are accompanied by their parents.. mothers usually…  and that is where it gets sticky…   I was at one.. where they made the parents stay to the sides so the little kids could go out and pick up eggs…. Some even let a parent go with the 2 years olds…BUT no parent could touch ANY EGG… only was able to pick up the egg that the child missed the bucket with.

There was one this year already, that had the kids in group but no rules about the parents not helping the 4 and under. When the group realized there weren’t enough eggs for all of the little ones.. they came with a bucket and dumped about 200 more eggs… at which time SOME of the women circled the eggs with their children in the middle and wouldn’t let anymore kids in.. WHAT THE HECK IS WITH THAT?  So much for Christianity….  After all that is what EASTER is really about..

After last year, my granddaughter has decided to just have the Easter egg hunt at home.. with family..  right now there isn’t any other kids.. but that is ok… In two years he will have a brother to find them  with.  

Now when mine kids were Easter egg hunting… I don’t recall there ever being a group… cousins yes, but a group with strangers, no…   Most of the time it was just the brothers and sisters doing the hunting…  Oh, yea.. our eggs were the real deal… they were the eggs the kids colored the night before…. And an adult went outside and hid the eggs while another adult made sure there were no children by the windows…  Also after they found all the eggs… then they took turns hiding the eggs … and this would go on about 8 times.. before they got tired of it..  And the eggs became deviled eggs for a week after… As they got baskets with candy when they got up Easter morning..

Also sometimes the dog found the eggs… a couple days after as there was always some eggs lost in the shuffle.

How about you..  did your kids go to an event by a group.. or did you do your own in your back yard?

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