Based on my coworker's FB pictures they've managed to turn Easter Egg "hunts" into the equivalent of everybody gets a trophy. I had to use the air quotes on hunt because they spread Easter eggs over a tennis court and the kids "hunted" for them.

What happened to hiding them or at least really little kids going into grass?

SMH

Grass holds hidden dangers like dog shit and bugs. You can't have children getting dirty.

When my youngest was four, I was helping set up for an Easter Egg Hunt. I had eggs all over, in trees, on top of playground equipment, etc. I caught the moms that were there moving the eggs I had hidden. When I asked them why they were moving them, they said no 4 year old would be able to find them. I put one back on top of the monkey bars and when my son came out, he climbed right up the pole to get the egg.
Monkey boy at 4:

Easter, Christmas and Halloween. They were once fun for kids but now ruined by adults.

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
Easter, Christmas and Halloween. They were once fun for kids but now ruined by adults.

I dunno about Halloween. Girls running around dressed as slutty everything is pretty hott.

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Girls running around dressed as slutty everything is pretty hott.

Yeah, if you are 15.

Around here there is no "hunt". It's just a swarm of people picking up eggs, in plain sight, on a baseball field. And when I say "people" I mean the adults. They act like they're going to win a Corvette if they horde the most eggs. It became obvious after 4 seconds that my 3 year old was not going to get ANY eggs unless I ran from him and took eggs away from other parents who seemed astounded that they were out-hustled for a few eggs, even though they started the mayhem. I've never seen anything like it. The age group was 2-4, and a few 4 year olds, veterans of previous engagements, were getting some results, but it really was the parents doing 80-90% of the gathering. I suppose that the majority of the participants were freshly off some boat from the Indian or Asian sub-continents had nothing to do with the behavior, it's just me feeling my white privilege slipping away.

The commercialization of Easter into these "games" has so clouded the true meaning of this "holiday", it has been lost forever. Kinda like Christmas, I guess...[JSMH]. And as someone stated, it's the parents screwing it up for everyone. God forbid little Alice not get a friggin' plastic egg. A PERFECT teachable moment that 2nd place is merely the first loser, but NOOOOO...EVERYONE is a winner! Makes me want to puke straight stomach bile...

Kind of like playing "musical chairs" with more chairs than people.

It's not really an Easter egg "hunt" unless some of the eggs are hidden too well to be found. In plain site on a tennis court doesn't quite reach that standard.

we staggered it. I helped my jr, since he is under the age of can use the restroom unassisted, but we still had a few very well hidden, and that included 1 that was the big prize egg with 5 inside. So someone lost out.

I don't really care if an Easter egg hunt is a "competitive" event, but wouldn't it be more fun if some of the eggs weren't out in plain sight?

Maybe you have a 1 to 3 year old area, a 3 to 6 year old area, and an area for kids over 6, with eggs progressively harder to find.

And no parents should be picking up any eggs. This is for kids.

This shouldn't take rocket science or the Supreme Court to set up.