I will never subject my sweet, innocent little lamb to another hare-raising event like it ever again. NEVER. EVER. EVER. AGAIN!
I wrote those words on April 9, 2009, on this very blog.
They were inspired by a bunch of freakazoid parents who decide to “help” their kids at a public Easter egg hunt. And by help I mean run over, elbow, flatten and otherwise traumatize innocent little children whom they did not give birth to, so they could get their grubby adult hands on plastic eggs and hand them to their offspring.
So much for egg “hunting,” not to mention civility, maturity, or… let’s see… sanity.
Believe it or not I have actually been able to keep the promise I made nearly three years ago.
After my daughter got mowed down by some raving lunatic of a mother at the city-wide Easter egg hunt we attended when she was just a toddler, I have gone out of my way to spare her from further holiday-related drama.
When I wrote about my daughter’s hair-raising experience in 2009, I included a snippet of a news report out of Texas. The blurb revealed that a Dallas-based Easter egg hunt was no longer going to offer cash awards to children who found gold eggs. Mainly because children weren’t the ones finding the eggs; rather, their deranged parents were mowing down young participants to score Easter green.
Fast forward to today when news just broke in Colorado. A small town there just announced it plans to cancel its annual Easter egg hunt due to parents getting “too aggressive” at last year’s event.
Organizers of the free hunt tell news reporters they were forced to cancel the event after hundreds of parents scaled barriers and entered a kids-only section of the hunt to ensure their kids got as many eggs as possible. The rule-breaking moms and dads caused last year’s hunt to end in seconds, much to the shock and awe of kids who failed to touch a single egg.
“There were disgruntled people because there either weren’t enough eggs to go around or some kids didn’t get one,” the event organizer told a local FOX affiliate. “Parents would get aggressive. Rather than create ill will, let’s just not do it.”
Way to go, parents.
One dad summed up his disappointment with this comment to reporters: “What kind of role model are you as a parent if your actions are canceling an event your child is going to remember for the rest of your life?”
What’s your feeling about public Easter egg hunts? Yea or nay?
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