This was my first year experiencing the chaos we call an "Easter Egg Hunt". I took my son, who is 21 months old, to his first Easter Egg Hunt this year. They separated the hunt into two categories, 0-6 and 7-12. Obviously, we fell into the 0-6 category. I was super excited to get photos of him collecting the eggs for his scrapbook. Unfortunately, this did not happen.
People take these hunts way to seriously. Parents were running and carrying their children to collect the eggs, some were collecting them for the children, and others were gathering the eggs in piles and telling their children to place them in their basket. I'm not sure why parents feel the need to be so extremely competitive with what should be a fun childhood activity. These parents were like a swarm of angry bees rushing to get as many eggs as possible. My son didn't get one egg out of the thousand that were "hidden".
Is this what parents want to teach their children? To step on others to get what they want, to be greedy and keep everything for themselves, to be so competitive it hurts others?
Perhaps the solution to the problem would be holding Adult Easter Egg Hunts first. This way they can be competitive and take out their aggression on other adults. Then maybe when it's time for the children's egg hunt they will be calm enough to let children be children and participate as parents, not like overgrown kids.
*Above Photo shows the large number of parents right before the "Battle for the Easter Eggs"! :)
