Considering making a sign up genius for sports snacks? Is your kid older than 1st grade? Then DON'T

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:NP. I agree, it’s awful. Luckily once your kid gets good, they get into travel teams where this is looked down upon. Not surprisingly the kids of the parents who insist on snacks are never the once who get good.

Did that make you feel good? Because I can’t imagine that it did.

+1. Gross

What is gross is insisting your constant need to feed your kids junk food is more important than anyone else’s desires with respect to what they feed their children. It’s not enough for you to feed your own kids junk food. You need to offer it and push it on all other kids. It’s disgusting behavior.

YOUR
KIDS
DON’T
HAVE
TO
EAT
IT
DRAMA
QUEEN

And you don’t have to bring Hostess Mini Cupcakes for the whole team because you can’t bear the looks you know you’ll get when you give them only to your kid. We know who is the real drama queen here. I mean, you are the one typing in all caps because you can’t bear the fact that people don’t like it when you force junk food on other people’s kids so they are as badly nourished as your own kids are.

Do the words “no, thank you” not exist in your world? Teach your kid manners and then there are no problems. Surely they would never want this gross food so what are you so worried about?

[Anonymous]

This thread is an object lesson in why American kids are so appallingly unhealthy. Of course they should not have sugar drinks and cookies after sports. This should not even be debated.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:NP. I agree, it’s awful. Luckily once your kid gets good, they get into travel teams where this is looked down upon. Not surprisingly the kids of the parents who insist on snacks are never the once who get good.

Did that make you feel good? Because I can’t imagine that it did.

+1. Gross

What is gross is insisting your constant need to feed your kids junk food is more important than anyone else’s desires with respect to what they feed their children. It’s not enough for you to feed your own kids junk food. You need to offer it and push it on all other kids. It’s disgusting behavior.

YOUR
KIDS
DON’T
HAVE
TO
EAT
IT
DRAMA
QUEEN

And you don’t have to bring Hostess Mini Cupcakes for the whole team because you can’t bear the looks you know you’ll get when you give them only to your kid. We know who is the real drama queen here. I mean, you are the one typing in all caps because you can’t bear the fact that people don’t like it when you force junk food on other people’s kids so they are as badly nourished as your own kids are.

Do the words “no, thank you” not exist in your world? Teach your kid manners and then there are no problems. Surely they would never want this gross food so what are you so worried about?

Again, why is it so important to you to feed other people’s kids? It’s bizarre how insistent you are that you have some entitlement to do this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:LOL. I’m a coach and parents requested the snack sign up genius AND it filled up right away. I could personally care less, but if your panties are in a bunch bc of a sign up genius (that is totally optional btw) or because you may feel obligated to bring some veggie straws one time during the fall season, I would suggest some Xanax.

What you don’t get is that (1) we do feel obligated because if we don’t sign up we will get talked about as slacker parents, and (2) this becomes one of 700 little details associated with school and activities we have to take care of. It’s not hard to bring veggies straws to one game. What is hard is coordinating the damn veggies straws along with every other random thing we have to do. Some of us are stretched thin and looking to simplify things and don’t get why other parents are eager to create more obligations all the time.

Also 99% of the time this obligation falls on the mom or primary parent. Think of this thread when you see those other threads about moms drowning under the mental load. Everyone thinks their “one more thing” is NBD but there a lot of “one more things” when you have kids in elementary school.

Soooooo much melodrama. Seriously. Grow up. Get some actual problems.

+1. I just woke up and read the news highlights - people still without power in Puerto Rico, devastation in Pakistan, violence all over the world .. yet this lady is upset because she feels pressured to bring a snack one time (key word is “pressured” bc you don’t even have to do it)… the first world problems and privilege on this site are off the rails.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So many bad parents in this thread who don’t like it that they are being called out for constantly stuffing their kids with junk food. Of course snacks for kids over age six are ridiculous, but if you are the kind of parent who is constantly placating your kids with junk food, you’ll be angry at people who can parent without relying on junk food.

What the hell are you talking about?

We're talking about snacks after a game once a week. What makes you think I'm "constantly stuffing my kids with junk food," or "constantly placating my kids with junk food? "

Focus. We're talking about snacks after a game. Once a week.

I understand that you don't want to tell YOUR child "no, you can't have the team snack," but that's an issue you can handle on your own.

Again, it's a snack after a game. Breathe.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:NP. I agree, it’s awful. Luckily once your kid gets good, they get into travel teams where this is looked down upon. Not surprisingly the kids of the parents who insist on snacks are never the once who get good.

Did that make you feel good? Because I can’t imagine that it did.

+1. Gross

What is gross is insisting your constant need to feed your kids junk food is more important than anyone else’s desires with respect to what they feed their children. It’s not enough for you to feed your own kids junk food. You need to offer it and push it on all other kids. It’s disgusting behavior.

YOUR
KIDS
DON’T
HAVE
TO
EAT
IT
DRAMA
QUEEN

And you don’t have to bring Hostess Mini Cupcakes for the whole team because you can’t bear the looks you know you’ll get when you give them only to your kid. We know who is the real drama queen here. I mean, you are the one typing in all caps because you can’t bear the fact that people don’t like it when you force junk food on other people’s kids so they are as badly nourished as your own kids are.

Do the words “no, thank you” not exist in your world? Teach your kid manners and then there are no problems. Surely they would never want this gross food so what are you so worried about?

Again, why is it so important to you to feed other people’s kids? It’s bizarre how insistent you are that you have some entitlement to do this.

Yeah! And moms who give out candy to trick or treaters? Entitled! People providing birthday cake? Entitled! Don't even get me started on s'mores around a campfire.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:NP. I agree, it’s awful. Luckily once your kid gets good, they get into travel teams where this is looked down upon. Not surprisingly the kids of the parents who insist on snacks are never the once who get good.

Did that make you feel good? Because I can’t imagine that it did.

+1. Gross

What is gross is insisting your constant need to feed your kids junk food is more important than anyone else’s desires with respect to what they feed their children. It’s not enough for you to feed your own kids junk food. You need to offer it and push it on all other kids. It’s disgusting behavior.

YOUR
KIDS
DON’T
HAVE
TO
EAT
IT
DRAMA
QUEEN

And you don’t have to bring Hostess Mini Cupcakes for the whole team because you can’t bear the looks you know you’ll get when you give them only to your kid. We know who is the real drama queen here. I mean, you are the one typing in all caps because you can’t bear the fact that people don’t like it when you force junk food on other people’s kids so they are as badly nourished as your own kids are.

Do the words “no, thank you” not exist in your world? Teach your kid manners and then there are no problems. Surely they would never want this gross food so what are you so worried about?

Again, why is it so important to you to feed other people’s kids? It’s bizarre how insistent you are that you have some entitlement to do this.

Yeah! And moms who give out candy to trick or treaters? Entitled! People providing birthday cake? Entitled! Don't even get me started on s'mores around a campfire.

Sure, when people show up at your doorstep asking for candy or come to the birthday party you invited them to.

But people don’t sign up for a sport with the expectation that you will be giving them Gatorade and cookies every week. That’s where the weird assumption on your part comes in.

[Anonymous]

Literally everyone thinks this, OP, except for the one idiot who somehow gets control of the snack situation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:NP. I agree, it’s awful. Luckily once your kid gets good, they get into travel teams where this is looked down upon. Not surprisingly the kids of the parents who insist on snacks are never the once who get good.

Did that make you feel good? Because I can’t imagine that it did.

+1. Gross

What is gross is insisting your constant need to feed your kids junk food is more important than anyone else’s desires with respect to what they feed their children. It’s not enough for you to feed your own kids junk food. You need to offer it and push it on all other kids. It’s disgusting behavior.

YOUR
KIDS
DON’T
HAVE
TO
EAT
IT
DRAMA
QUEEN

And you don’t have to bring Hostess Mini Cupcakes for the whole team because you can’t bear the looks you know you’ll get when you give them only to your kid. We know who is the real drama queen here. I mean, you are the one typing in all caps because you can’t bear the fact that people don’t like it when you force junk food on other people’s kids so they are as badly nourished as your own kids are.

This is beyond ridiculous with your fake outrage

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. I agree, it’s awful. Luckily once your kid gets good, they get into travel teams where this is looked down upon. Not surprisingly the kids of the parents who insist on snacks are never the once who get good.

Did that make you feel good? Because I can’t imagine that it did.

+1. Gross

What is gross is insisting your constant need to feed your kids junk food is more important than anyone else’s desires with respect to what they feed their children. It’s not enough for you to feed your own kids junk food. You need to offer it and push it on all other kids. It’s disgusting behavior.

YOUR
KIDS
DON’T
HAVE
TO
EAT
IT
DRAMA
QUEEN

And you don’t have to bring Hostess Mini Cupcakes for the whole team because you can’t bear the looks you know you’ll get when you give them only to your kid. We know who is the real drama queen here. I mean, you are the one typing in all caps because you can’t bear the fact that people don’t like it when you force junk food on other people’s kids so they are as badly nourished as your own kids are.

Again with the junk food red herring. I’m one of the posters who doesn’t mind team snacks. When asked, I bring mandarin oranges.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So many bad parents in this thread who don’t like it that they are being called out for constantly stuffing their kids with junk food. Of course snacks for kids over age six are ridiculous, but if you are the kind of parent who is constantly placating your kids with junk food, you’ll be angry at people who can parent without relying on junk food.

What the hell are you talking about?

We're talking about snacks after a game once a week. What makes you think I'm "constantly stuffing my kids with junk food," or "constantly placating my kids with junk food? "

Focus. We're talking about snacks after a game. Once a week.

I understand that you don't want to tell YOUR child "no, you can't have the team snack," but that's an issue you can handle on your own.

Again, it's a snack after a game. Breathe.

But it isn’t. It is a piece of the larger issue that this junk is given to kids ALL THE TIME under the guise of “but it is just this once”

Except it isn’t. It is birthday parties, play dates, school events, class rewards, practices, games, grandma’s house...

Even if you never buy junk food, your kid is likely at least getting offered it several times per week through various avenues. Sure you can tell them no they can’t have that, but constantly telling your child they can’t have that creates problems too. They constant junk food being given kids is a society problem that can’t be solved by individual parents telling their kids to say no. You are normalizing garbage food by offering these snacks at all types of events

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So many bad parents in this thread who don’t like it that they are being called out for constantly stuffing their kids with junk food. Of course snacks for kids over age six are ridiculous, but if you are the kind of parent who is constantly placating your kids with junk food, you’ll be angry at people who can parent without relying on junk food.

What the hell are you talking about?

We're talking about snacks after a game once a week. What makes you think I'm "constantly stuffing my kids with junk food," or "constantly placating my kids with junk food? "

Focus. We're talking about snacks after a game. Once a week.

I understand that you don't want to tell YOUR child "no, you can't have the team snack," but that's an issue you can handle on your own.

Again, it's a snack after a game. Breathe.

But it isn’t. It is a piece of the larger issue that this junk is given to kids ALL THE TIME under the guise of “but it is just this once”

Except it isn’t. It is birthday parties, play dates, school events, class rewards, practices, games, grandma’s house...

Even if you never buy junk food, your kid is likely at least getting offered it several times per week through various avenues. Sure you can tell them no they can’t have that, but constantly telling your child they can’t have that creates problems too. They constant junk food being given kids is a society problem that can’t be solved by individual parents telling their kids to say no. You are normalizing garbage food by offering these snacks at all types of events

Our school doesn’t have class rewards using food. They use pencils and stickers. That’s because parents spoke up. I dont have an issue with any of these things - parties, play dates, grandma - but if I did, I would use my voice to speak up. EMAIL THE PARENTS and discuss it with them. Literally nothing is going to be solved here because what matters isn’t the people on this thread, but the parents of the sports team in question, and yes, you may be outnumbered if they are parents who, like many others, enjoy coordinating team snacks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So many bad parents in this thread who don’t like it that they are being called out for constantly stuffing their kids with junk food. Of course snacks for kids over age six are ridiculous, but if you are the kind of parent who is constantly placating your kids with junk food, you’ll be angry at people who can parent without relying on junk food.

What the hell are you talking about?

We're talking about snacks after a game once a week. What makes you think I'm "constantly stuffing my kids with junk food," or "constantly placating my kids with junk food? "

Focus. We're talking about snacks after a game. Once a week.

I understand that you don't want to tell YOUR child "no, you can't have the team snack," but that's an issue you can handle on your own.

Again, it's a snack after a game. Breathe.

But it isn’t. It is a piece of the larger issue that this junk is given to kids ALL THE TIME under the guise of “but it is just this once”

Except it isn’t. It is birthday parties, play dates, school events, class rewards, practices, games, grandma’s house...

Even if you never buy junk food, your kid is likely at least getting offered it several times per week through various avenues. Sure you can tell them no they can’t have that, but constantly telling your child they can’t have that creates problems too. They constant junk food being given kids is a society problem that can’t be solved by individual parents telling their kids to say no. You are normalizing garbage food by offering these snacks at all types of events

Just hide in your house and never come out

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:NP. I agree, it’s awful. Luckily once your kid gets good, they get into travel teams where this is looked down upon. Not surprisingly the kids of the parents who insist on snacks are never the once who get good.

Did that make you feel good? Because I can’t imagine that it did.

+1. Gross

What is gross is insisting your constant need to feed your kids junk food is more important than anyone else’s desires with respect to what they feed their children. It’s not enough for you to feed your own kids junk food. You need to offer it and push it on all other kids. It’s disgusting behavior.

YOUR
KIDS
DON’T
HAVE
TO
EAT
IT
DRAMA
QUEEN

And you don’t have to bring Hostess Mini Cupcakes for the whole team because you can’t bear the looks you know you’ll get when you give them only to your kid. We know who is the real drama queen here. I mean, you are the one typing in all caps because you can’t bear the fact that people don’t like it when you force junk food on other people’s kids so they are as badly nourished as your own kids are.

Do the words “no, thank you” not exist in your world? Teach your kid manners and then there are no problems. Surely they would never want this gross food so what are you so worried about?

Again, why is it so important to you to feed other people’s kids? It’s bizarre how insistent you are that you have some entitlement to do this.

No. I didn’t say i bring the snacks. My kids know to say no thanks if they aren’t interested. I don’t need ither people do my job. Don’t be so lazy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:NP. I agree, it’s awful. Luckily once your kid gets good, they get into travel teams where this is looked down upon. Not surprisingly the kids of the parents who insist on snacks are never the once who get good.

Did that make you feel good? Because I can’t imagine that it did.

+1. Gross

What is gross is insisting your constant need to feed your kids junk food is more important than anyone else’s desires with respect to what they feed their children. It’s not enough for you to feed your own kids junk food. You need to offer it and push it on all other kids. It’s disgusting behavior.

YOUR
KIDS
DON’T
HAVE
TO
EAT
IT
DRAMA
QUEEN

And you don’t have to bring Hostess Mini Cupcakes for the whole team because you can’t bear the looks you know you’ll get when you give them only to your kid. We know who is the real drama queen here. I mean, you are the one typing in all caps because you can’t bear the fact that people don’t like it when you force junk food on other people’s kids so they are as badly nourished as your own kids are.

Do the words “no, thank you” not exist in your world? Teach your kid manners and then there are no problems. Surely they would never want this gross food so what are you so worried about?

Again, why is it so important to you to feed other people’s kids? It’s bizarre how insistent you are that you have some entitlement to do this.

Take it up with the people on your own kid's team. Why are you fighting people here? For someone who feels so strongly about this its bizarre that you don't address it with the actual people trying to feed your (possibly imagined) kid. Why have you not done this? I mean, this is such an important issue to you, yet you bizarrely don't seem to actually do anything about it.