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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

Snacks are for the team. Parent bring snacks for the siblings. What’s so hard about that? [/quote]

It’s confusing because parents should also be the ones bringing/sending snacks for their own player in the tiny minority of cases where a post-game snack is actually needed, like where the kid is diabetic, hypoglycemic, has a super-charged metabolism, etc. If you think a snack rotation is important because it helps the team bond or just is a fun thing, why not also include the young spectators who are helping to support the team? [/quote]

While I think the snack situation is stupid, I don’t understand why that’s team building for siblings. I can understand that after a long game kids are hungry and why not have orange slices and Gatorade. Little kid sitting on the sidelines Don’t need to be raidinf the team snacks. It’s a food grab! And if the little kids need something to eat then the parents should be planning and bringing their own food.  [/quote]

But almost no kids of team snack age are actually hungry after a 40 or 45 minute game, unless their parents failed to feed them properly beforehand. They might be thirsty, but hopefully all have water bottles. The “fun”rationale is the only one that makes a lick of sense to me, and I think it’s kind of stingy to not let the little kids who got dragged to their siblings game participate in the fun.  [/quote]

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