Wish everyone would just bring their own snacks to games and practice

[Anonymous]

Don't want dirty hands peeling an orange

[Anonymous]

AMEN. It's annoying and pointless. Bring your own snacks, people!

[Anonymous]

Volunteer to coach. Send out a welcome email. If the kids are 2nd grade or younger, say that there won't be time for snacks at practices, but if parents would like to sign up to provide orange slices at half time, here's the sign up. If the kids are older than 2nd grade, remind the parents that the kids need to bring their water bottles to every practice and game, and say you can't have snacks at every game because you need half time to prepare the kids for the second half of the game and thank the parents for getting their kids to practices and games at the scheduled time. The 3rd grade parents might be shell shocked at the lack of snacks, but they'll quickly realize it wasn't necessary and their kids survived.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you don't like it, then why sign up?

Exactly, and please tell your kid not to have any.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Volunteer to coach. Send out a welcome email. If the kids are 2nd grade or younger, say that there won't be time for snacks at practices, but if parents would like to sign up to provide orange slices at half time, here's the sign up. If the kids are older than 2nd grade, remind the parents that the kids need to bring their water bottles to every practice and game, and say you can't have snacks at every game because you need half time to prepare the kids for the second half of the game and thank the parents for getting their kids to practices and games at the scheduled time. The 3rd grade parents might be shell shocked at the lack of snacks, but they'll quickly realize it wasn't necessary and their kids survived.

Agree. I've only ever seen snacks for soccer and never came across a team that had snacks after first grade. Who does this?

[Anonymous]

I always did bananas for halftime - super easy and had the grocery store bag for the peels after. For after the game, I did a "goody bag" with a juice pouch, salty treat, sweet treat and just handed them out to the players. If I saw that some siblings consistently expected something, I put together extras.

Disclaimer: I enjoyed doing the after-game bag and tied the theme to the team name.

[Anonymous]

It goes away at a certain point, thankfully. I always hated the concept because it reinforced the idea that we couldn't possibly go a full hour without food. The snacking thing for kids is too much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don't like it, then why sign up?

Exactly, and please tell your kid not to have any.

+1 it's not as if I encourage them to eat the cupcakes I bring. They just grab and go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I always did bananas for halftime - super easy and had the grocery store bag for the peels after. For after the game, I did a "goody bag" with a juice pouch, salty treat, sweet treat and just handed them out to the players. If I saw that some siblings consistently expected something, I put together extras.

Disclaimer: I enjoyed doing the after-game bag and tied the theme to the team name.

[Anonymous]

I don't mind providing snacks a few times per season after games but I get annoyed with having to provide for the gaggle of siblings and the few kids from the other team who inevitably wander over. I don't know why it irks me but it does. Maybe because the siblings are the first to gather around and start grabbing things before the kids on the team get to have any. Parents just stand by watching it happen. Control your kids. Not everything is for them.

[Anonymous]

I am happy to either bring a snack routinely for my own kid, or sign up to rotate snacks. Either is fine with me. Same amount of food either way, so it's no skin off my nose whether I do it all in one day or across a bunch of days. Happy to share with whichever kid is hungry.

What I really don't get is get why some people are so snarky about feeding kids. They are children. We are adults. We can't find a snack to feed a hungry kid?

[Anonymous]

I think the need to snack after a practice or game is ridiculous. parents can bring a snack for their own kid if they feel differently.

[Anonymous]

It's just one more instance of raising the bar. It makes ordinary parenting not good enough. "Some of us do it all" eventually will be the complaint when others don't contribute to the same standard. It's just a little thing - - this snack discussion, but it's a small example of what is happening on all fronts re: parenting. Some might say competitive parenting. Coaches, teachers, those in authority please help rein it in. Less hassle, reasonable expectations helps everyone be less stressed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: If I saw that some siblings consistently expected something, I put together extras.

This is enabling, and why parents/siblings expect to get snacks.

I brought snacks for the players, period, handed out to them personally. No guilt whatsoeve.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am happy to either bring a snack routinely for my own kid, or sign up to rotate snacks. Either is fine with me. Same amount of food either way, so it's no skin off my nose whether I do it all in one day or across a bunch of days. Happy to share with whichever kid is hungry.

What I really don't get is get why some people are so snarky about feeding kids. They are children. We are adults. We can't find a snack to feed a hungry kid?

I don't buy that they're actually hungry. They've just come to expect getting a snack when they attend their sibling's games. Half the time they're standing around eating snacks their parents brought for them while they're watching the game. I'm all for feeding hungry kids but it goes along with the idea that the snack culture has gotten out of control. They don't need a snack to go along with every part of their day.