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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

I have an U13 rec player and snacks are still going strong. I would have assumed it would have died away by now also but no, the portions just got bigger. Standard for our team after both weekly practices and the Sat game seems to be Gatorades and packs of chips. It's the only activity any of my kids do that has a food reward at the end and I don't understand it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

But no. The nightmare parents are the people who expect every else to want to do group snacks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

You, too, are one of people that the other half (well, more than half) of posters are appealing to.

Glad your happy to bring your kids snacks. Don’t assume that everyone wants to deal with group coordination about it.

[Anonymous]

If you don't send out a sign up, someone will ask why you haven't yet. This year, the slots were filled within 10 minutes and parents who didn't sign up were asking each other if they could go in together for snacks. So far, parents are putting together whole goodie bags.

Anyone who doesn't want to provide snacks, just don't. The kids obviously like the tradition aspect.

I don't understand the hate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Totally this. Let’s see if you actually care enough to do something about it, OP.
[Excuses.]
Thought not!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

But no. The nightmare parents are the people who expect every else to want to do group snacks.

I don't necessarily want them as we bring our own snacks or stop for dinner but the point of it is to get the kids to socialize a little bit and team spirit. Really, you can order some snacks on amazon.

[Anonymous]

I always loved bringing team snacks. I think it helps builds cohesiveness and team spirit. It encourages all parents to be involved. And it’s fun for the kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

That is unreal. Who will bring them to the game? Where does she have them delivered? At that point they should just ask for a donation for the snack funds for these ADULT players.

We all give money for my high school son and volunteers coordinate meals and snacks on game days. So I guess it’s still going strong in high school but less of a hassle since it’s one Venmo payment per season.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

I have an U13 rec player and snacks are still going strong. I would have assumed it would have died away by now also but no, the portions just got bigger. Standard for our team after both weekly practices and the Sat game seems to be Gatorades and packs of chips. It's the only activity any of my kids do that has a food reward at the end and I don't understand it.

snacks after practice is really weird, also snacks for U13 is weird.

[Anonymous]

I was always opposed to it but did it anyway. Have you ever noticed the slim mom with her over weight teen girl walking beside her? We stuff food in those kids every couple of hours. What did you think would happen? And the sliced oranges are very surgery and sticky. Do extra clean up. …
Just bring some wipes etc etc etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was always opposed to it but did it anyway. Have you ever noticed the slim mom with her over weight teen girl walking beside her? We stuff food in those kids every couple of hours. What did you think would happen? And the sliced oranges are very surgery and sticky. Do extra clean up. …
Just bring some wipes etc etc etc.

This is what I said before. When I was a kid people weren’t snacking all day. Now if I take my toddler to the park before dinner everyone’s eating goldfish so he starts yelping that he wants some and then someone gives him some and he doesn’t eat dinner. It’s so ridiculous

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

our snack sing-up creator thankfully moved to England this year for work. So at U13 we finally have no snacks for red soccer! It's awesome but it took an international move to shake the snacks

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

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