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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am definitely anti-littering, but come on, people… this is not a big deal. The grownups I know like treating themselves to fancy coffee after a group run. Kids running in a soccer game for an hour straight can drink a 35-calorie Capri Sun and eat a bag of Pirates Booty. That is not what’s causing the obesity epidemic.

Literally none of the reasons in the OP were related to obesity, which no one thinks is caused by team sports.

[Anonymous]

I have a first grader and a fourth grader. The first grade team brings snacks and the kids love it (and the parents are great about making sure their kids don't litter), and the fourth grade team brings their own snacks so it appears you are not alone in your assessment. No need to make this PSA, it's how things are already done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I grew up here. We got sliced oranges for soccer team snacks.

I brought sliced oranges last time we had snack duty and the parents LOVED it, everyone was reminiscing about when they were kids, LOL!

[Anonymous]

Completely agree with all your points, OP.

But some people love make-work, and take themselves SO seriously.

[Anonymous]

You sound like the nightmare parent. Any allergy parent is going to bring their own food. You had too many kids if you are complaining about this and should stop having more kids since these things are such a burden to you.

[Anonymous]

My stepson started college this year and plays football. They have a parents association where everyone is supposed to sign up for snack/water/Gatorade duty for every game. They send several emails a week “reminding” parents to sign up. My stepson is 500 miles away. In COLLEGE. And I’m getting snack sign up emails. Unreal!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My stepson started college this year and plays football. They have a parents association where everyone is supposed to sign up for snack/water/Gatorade duty for every game. They send several emails a week “reminding” parents to sign up. My stepson is 500 miles away. In COLLEGE. And I’m getting snack sign up emails. Unreal!

That's such a nice thing to do. You can have some drinks and snacks delivered to the team.

[Anonymous]

I agree, but if you really want this to change, you need to nut up, “reply all” when the SignUpGenius link comes around, and make your case.

Is your money where your mouth is?

Freaking doubt it.

[Anonymous]

It’s so much extra coordination for a lousy snack bag. Just hand your own kids their own preferred snack if that’s what you want

[Anonymous]

Totally agree.

We all need to just refuse.

[Anonymous]

Snacks (and trophies) for youth sports should go away!

Almost empty nester mom and former snack and trophy coordinator.

It’s exhausting and unnecessary.

[Anonymous]

Agree. It’s way simpler for a family to dole out their own bag of pirates booty in the car as you drive away from the T-ball

[Anonymous]

I guess I'm an outlier, but to me it's NBD to bring 2 cases of caprisuns and a thing of Cheez -It's or letting my kid(s) enjoy the post game snack. (gasp!).

- mom to 4 kids (K-8th gr) all involved in various sports never felt stressed (or triggered) by this like OP is over the many years of doing this.

[Anonymous]

Ha! I was jut thinking this last week as I realized we were doing this AGAIN for soccer. Ugh. WHYYYY? Stop the insanity!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I grew up here. We got sliced oranges for soccer team snacks.

I grew up here and remember it being orange slices at halftime, and (separate) snack after the game. I also remember my mom complaining about this! Haha (and I agree, fwiw)