Soccer snacks- stupid vent edition.

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Anonymous wrote:How many siblings are showing up?

There were at least 15 siblings hanging around the last time I brought snacks. It was my turn late in the season and I knew all the kids by then, so I passive aggressively labeled the snacks for the team using leftover goody bags from past birthday parties. I was over it, there were more siblings than team members at almost every game. Several times last season there weren’t enough snacks for the players. We’re not doing team snacks this season and I’m so happy.

This sounds like a scene from a movie about crazy parents.

It really does. Get a life, PP.

At least the kids who we’re supposed to get the snacks did. I’m sorry if you’re upset all your kids didn’t all get free food.

[Anonymous]

Snacks are completely unnecessary for an one hour game, but if you must, whole fruit is tolerable. You can keep your goldfish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We buy two boxes of goldfish packs and bring them. We tell kids who didn’t play that they have to wait until the team players have taken a snack. If there is something left over, we will give them to siblings who ask politely. We aer a baseball family. There are 12 kids n the team, most games have 10 players there. We end up with 16 Goldfish packets so we pass out the extra 6 if there are 6 siblings. If we bring some home, great. If we don’t, that is fine as well.

But that is us.

We do make siblings wait. Most of the parents on our team do the same thing and it has not been a problem.

Huh. Sounds completely rational.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How many siblings are showing up?

There were at least 15 siblings hanging around the last time I brought snacks. It was my turn late in the season and I knew all the kids by then, so I passive aggressively labeled the snacks for the team using leftover goody bags from past birthday parties. I was over it, there were more siblings than team members at almost every game. Several times last season there weren’t enough snacks for the players. We’re not doing team snacks this season and I’m so happy.

This sounds like a scene from a movie about crazy parents.

It really does. Get a life, PP.

At least the kids who we’re supposed to get the snacks did. I’m sorry if you’re upset all your kids didn’t all get free food.

And that line would be in the movie too, after you, the stingy control freak mom, were confronted by the whiny mom who doesn’t ever discipline her children. The rest of us would be on the sideline laughing at both of you. Well, other than the well-intentioned, but completely clueless, mom who insisted on the snack schedule in the first place. She’d be very distressed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Snacks are completely unnecessary for an one hour game, but if you must, whole fruit is tolerable. You can keep your goldfish.

You are welcome to bring fruit if you sign up for a snack. We aim for something that is tree nut and peanut free. It is not that big a deal. The kids love it and it is not that much in terms of calories. I get the feeling that the snacks stop sometime around 8 or 9.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How many siblings are showing up?

There were at least 15 siblings hanging around the last time I brought snacks. It was my turn late in the season and I knew all the kids by then, so I passive aggressively labeled the snacks for the team using leftover goody bags from past birthday parties. I was over it, there were more siblings than team members at almost every game. Several times last season there weren’t enough snacks for the players. We’re not doing team snacks this season and I’m so happy.

This sounds like a scene from a movie about crazy parents.

It really does. Get a life, PP.

At least the kids who we’re supposed to get the snacks did. I’m sorry if you’re upset all your kids didn’t all get free food.

OMG YOU SOUND INSANE.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many siblings are showing up?

There were at least 15 siblings hanging around the last time I brought snacks. It was my turn late in the season and I knew all the kids by then, so I passive aggressively labeled the snacks for the team using leftover goody bags from past birthday parties. I was over it, there were more siblings than team members at almost every game. Several times last season there weren’t enough snacks for the players. We’re not doing team snacks this season and I’m so happy.

This sounds like a scene from a movie about crazy parents.

It really does. Get a life, PP.

At least the kids who we’re supposed to get the snacks did. I’m sorry if you’re upset all your kids didn’t all get free food.

And that line would be in the movie too, after you, the stingy control freak mom, were confronted by the whiny mom who doesn’t ever discipline her children. The rest of us would be on the sideline laughing at both of you. Well, other than the well-intentioned, but completely clueless, mom who insisted on the snack schedule in the first place. She’d be very distressed.

We'd also be laughing at smug "whole fruit is tolerable" mom whose kids are busy gobbling up the goldfish and asking for seconds.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many siblings are showing up?

There were at least 15 siblings hanging around the last time I brought snacks. It was my turn late in the season and I knew all the kids by then, so I passive aggressively labeled the snacks for the team using leftover goody bags from past birthday parties. I was over it, there were more siblings than team members at almost every game. Several times last season there weren’t enough snacks for the players. We’re not doing team snacks this season and I’m so happy.

This sounds like a scene from a movie about crazy parents.

It really does. Get a life, PP.

At least the kids who we’re supposed to get the snacks did. I’m sorry if you’re upset all your kids didn’t all get free food.

OMG YOU SOUND INSANE.

She really doesn't. Just sounds like someone who is over the ridiculousness of constant snacks.

[Anonymous]

This is one reason I like hockey...no snacks except for the occasional surprise of donut holes or something after an early game. When my child did soccer, we just brought plenty so that the handful of siblings could have some too. I figure it’s a reward for having to sit through the practice/game. NBD.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I think soccer snacks are stupid in the first place, but I agree with you on this.

I think soccer is stupid.

I totally agree. It is a complete waste of time!

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Anonymous wrote:If siblings are helping themselves first that’s on the parents. Come on. Of course if there are leftovers anyone who’s there should be allowed to have some - not every kid brings a sibling. Let’s be real. but it’s not that big of a deal to give five extra bags of goldfish or whatever. They should not go first.

How do you know it’s not a big deal? Food insecurity is a real thing, even in th suburbs. Those extra 5 bags of goldfish would be their own child’s snack for a week of school lunches. Those 5 goldfish might be a snack for their own child after other activities.

I real.h don’t understand the current “siblings are one human” mentality, where siblings must somehow always exist as one being - going to the same birthday parties, no matter how age inappropriate, and now sharing snacks meant for the children engaging in a specific activity.

It is on the parents. Is it really that hard to tell your other child that the snacks are for the players only, and to hand them a snack that you have brought for exactly that reason? Or to tell your child they don’t need a snack, considering all they’ve done is sit and watch?

This board is so hilarious.. leave a baby to CIO at a few months old, and argue about “being a parent”, but throwing a fit about unhelpful other par nets if 8 year old Larla doesn’t get a bag of goldfish at their sisters soccer game.

It's not that hard, but I'm not telling my friend's 2 year old they can't have goldfish that are in front of their face. YMMV.

Your friend should be the one telling her to-year-old that she can’t go have team snacks. Yes, 2 year olds understand.

Sometimes the kid just toddles over while the parents are packing up. WHO FREAKING CARES. Some of you are insufferable. If there's extra, they can have it. If not, they can't. I'm not hovering over a juice box like some crazy Nazi rationalist to prove a point.

Did you read the OP? It said siblings were helping themselves before the players. And it didn’t say five extra bags.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s ridiculous to provide snacks after games, but for every team my kids have been on where there was a snack rotation, everyone brought enough for siblings. Seems reasonable to me given that no one needs the snacks—they are just for fun, so why not include all the kids.

I agree. I think it’s expected to bring enough for siblings. Just do it. You’ll be done with it by 3rd grade max.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t even know where to post this but I’ll put it here since it’s a general issue. Parents, The snacks are for the players, not for siblings! I always bring extras but for the past couple weeks I’ve seen players end up with no snacks because everybody’s siblings takes one. Parents shouldn’t have to bring three or four times the amount of snacks so siblings can have some as well. I’m happy to share leftovers with siblings, but not first dibs!

I usually hold the snacks and hand them out to the players as they come up, asking siblings to wait.

Not everyone is from here, and not everyone played soccer as a child. I am not sure that the concept of “first dibs” is as obvious as it seems to those of us who grew up with it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t even know where to post this but I’ll put it here since it’s a general issue. Parents, The snacks are for the players, not for siblings! I always bring extras but for the past couple weeks I’ve seen players end up with no snacks because everybody’s siblings takes one. Parents shouldn’t have to bring three or four times the amount of snacks so siblings can have some as well. I’m happy to share leftovers with siblings, but not first dibs!

I usually hold the snacks and hand them out to the players as they come up, asking siblings to wait.

Not everyone is from here, and not everyone played soccer as a child. I am not sure that the concept of “first dibs” is as obvious as it seems to those of us who grew up with it.

I think it obvious to all but maybe toddlers that the snacks are for the players. It's fine to hand out extras to siblings and truly, I don't mind that at all. It saves me from dragging extras back to the car, but I agree there shouldn't be an expectation to bring snacks for players + numerous siblings.

Some of the teams in our club do "halftime snacks" and you'll see moms run onto the field with grapes and orange slices. I was on a team one year when that was suggested and I was grateful the idea was quickly shot down. The "halftime" snacks team still do an end of game snack because MORE SNACKS. It's just too much.

For us, snacks have stopped after U8 so it doesn't last forever!

[Anonymous]

Who are these parents who let kids walk all over them? When I hand out snacks (which I hate), I tell siblings the snacks are for the players and see if their sibling wants to share. If there are extra my other kids get them.

There was one mom whose two younger kids always pestered and the mom didn't want to hear it so she was rude and tried to get extra snacks for her two younger kids instead of packing her own family snacks. When she tried grabbing two extra snack bags from me I told her no she couldn't have them. She tried to guilt me into giving them to her but all it takes is to keep saying no. Giving no explanation or excuse is better when dealing with pushy people.