http://www.people.com/article/pez-easter-egg-hunt-chaos-orange-connecticut
Is this an example of bad parenting or an unorganized event?
I wish someone posts a video to see how a few parents were behaving at this event.
Yes.
And of so-called adults being complete and utter idiots.
^^^Completely agree with you. Parents setting a bad example for their kids. I remember taking daughter to one when she was small. No parents were allowed and the kids were separated by age groups. Each child was told to pick only a certain amount of eggs.
Bad human-ing. Yes, it was an “unorganized event” but Pez probably figured they wouldn’t need a police force or small army to keep people from breaking the rules and going wild for little treats they can buy in the grocery store for 50 cents!
I’m sure that PEZ never imagined that parents would behave in such a fashion. Now maybe it was only a small number of ‘rogue’ parents, but they sure did spoil it for the rest.
I saw this story on the news and place all of the blame on the unruly pushy parents who were the ones who instigated the entire mess.
Felt really bad for the little kid who was interviewed who said some of those pushy parents went so far as to take several eggs he picked up AND BREAK THE VERY BUCKET he used to carry them.
Then again, considering some of our public “role models”…including a couple of presidential candidates with Ivy degrees, Pez was probably expecting far too much from the ostensibly “adult” parents…
This type of parenting is how we produce entitled children.
I remember a similar debacle at an Easter egg event in Central Park, decades ago.
IIRC, the participants were highly unlikely to be raising “entitled” children.
This just baffled me. How much would it have cost for parents to go to Walmart to buy a bag of chocolate eggs, $2? Really?! I used to throw most of easter eggs and halloween candies away when kids were little.
I may have gotten the wrong impression, but it sounds as if some of the children started picking stuff up before it was allowed–which is not surprising given their level of excitement and their age–and the parents completely failed to control them. I plead guilty to having been Attila the Mom, but no way would I have allowed my kid to rush in and break the rules. Many other people would just say, “Oh, it’s Easter, let them have their fun, what’s the big deal” and so forth.
It’s bad enough that people didn’t control their kids, but when the adults joined in, the whole thing devolved into a free for all. Very sad.
According to the news report and the kid who was interviewed, it wasn’t the kids who instigated or behaved badly. It was THE PARENTS.
I used to help run the Easter egg hunt at my church, and we had some problems like this (although from kids, not adults). We tried various things, like telling the kids they could only pick up a specified number of eggs, or by having a specified area only for little kids. I used to bring a few extra eggs in my pockets to put down for my own kids when they were little, just to make sure they got something.
It was in our local paper this morning. I think it’s another symptom of how common decency is disappearing in this country. People care only about themselves and outrageous behavior to advance oneself is glorified.
I expect the majority of them will be posting here in about 10-12 years.
There is already a thread on this:
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/1874856-pez-easter-egg-hunt-gone-wrong.html
Ok, sorry, please delete this thread or merge them.
I can’t imagine wanting to participate in such a large event. The larger the event, the greater the chance for ill-behaved parents and children.Whatever is the attraction of this kind of event?
“Hunts” and “prizes” can bring out very unattractive aspects of people, especially adults. I’ve never personally seen the attraction and we and our kids avoid such large events like the plague. No prize is enough incentive to get us to participate in these events.
Personally I don’t like going to events where there are going to be large crowds. It is easy for things to get out of control. It is unfortunate that something that was meant to be fun and excitement for the kids turned into a bad situation. I believe they have done this event before but I think the number of participants grew and it was difficult to manage such a large crowd and things quickly went out of control.
I know nothing should surprise me anymore but I am still dismayed by the behavior of a few parents who turned a fun event into an ugly one.
I am surprised some of those parents wouldn’t have given up some eggs to other kids. Again, what would it have cost to swing by Walmart later (probably 50% off at that point) to buy a bag of easter eggs for your kid if he/she didn’t get any.