Snacks are ridiculous. I boycotted and wouldn't sign up and was vocal that the kids don't need snacks. So many parents came up and thanked me for saying something. It quickly stopped on the team. I think there's usually like one parent who really wants to do it, the rest hate it but are afraid to buck the trend.

Anonymous wrote:T-ball coach here. We do it after games. As does every other team we play against.

It's sort of silly but what's the big deal?So once a season you have to lay out 20 bucks? Cry me a river. Are you seriously that cheap? It's kind of a fun decompression time for the kids, parents can chat, coaches can talk about schedule issues or whatever. And it takes 5-10 minutes.

+1. Especially at the younger ages, kids do get hungry and they notice that the other team will have snacks. All of the parents I've talked to want to do the group snacks. If you think it's a bad idea then say something and find out if others agree.

Anonymous wrote:I don't mind the snacks. I do mind when people bring junk like cupcakes and cookies. How about apples slices!

Because nobody will eat them. What I hate about the snacks is the shelling out money for food the kids never eat. If I pack grapes, apples, or bananas, they will just sit there.

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Yeah, my kid is definitely hungry. If he wasn't hungry, he wouldn't eat. I'm not 100% sure what you mean by "the snack culture"? IDK what that is, or why it is "out of control." But if my kid plays an hour of soccer, he needs to eat something.

So being a snack for your own kid.

I do ... I guess I don't get why it's so tragic for others to rotate snacks? And ZOMG, a sibling might eat something?

I guess we just hang out with a crew that brings extras in case kids are hungry.

Anonymous wrote:This trend will die soon.

But not soon enough.

Not in our lifetime

--bring

Yeah, my kid is definitely hungry. If he wasn't hungry, he wouldn't eat. I'm not 100% sure what you mean by "the snack culture"? IDK what that is, or why it is "out of control." But if my kid plays an hour of soccer, he needs to eat something.

So being a snack for your own kid.

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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.

Yeah, my kid is definitely hungry. If he wasn't hungry, he wouldn't eat. I'm not 100% sure what you mean by "the snack culture"? IDK what that is, or why it is "out of control." But if my kid plays an hour of soccer, he needs to eat something.

If your kid isn't hungry and you don't want them to eat, don't let them have the snack? That seems easier than trying to change other people's behavior, no?

I think the snack culture goes beyond handing each kid a banana or an apple. When my daughter first started soccer, the snacks started out as a granola bar in the beginning of the season. That's fine. Then parents felt the need to up it every weekend. By the end of the season they were getting sacks with juice or Gatorade, a bag of chips, a granola bar, and a piece of candy. It was ridiculous.

Anonymous wrote: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.

When I bring snacks, it's players and coaches' younger kid first (they're stuck at games). If there's anything left over, I'll give them to siblings but have no problem telling them, 'sorry, these are for players'.

When we did this (PP here with the kid from the 90s) it was understood that the snacks were only for players. The snack was fruit -- no junk food allowed. The kids ate it while the coach talked to them at the end of the game.

Shockingly enough to those whose kids "need" that snack, one of my kids now plays high school sports. Guess what? They don't eat at half time or right after the game. And they all survive. A whole bunch of teenage boys, no less.

The only kid I've seen who really needed to eat was a diabetic player on one of ds's soccer teams. Blood sugar was checked and if food was necessary, the parents had some.

Anonymous wrote:This trend will die soon.

But not soon enough.

I don't think so. We did this after our oldest's practices in the 90's.

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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.

Yeah, my kid is definitely hungry. If he wasn't hungry, he wouldn't eat. I'm not 100% sure what you mean by "the snack culture"? IDK what that is, or why it is "out of control." But if my kid plays an hour of soccer, he needs to eat something.

If your kid isn't hungry and you don't want them to eat, don't let them have the snack? That seems easier than trying to change other people's behavior, no?

I was referring to siblings who come to watch games and then are the first in line to receive a snack. Not the kids who just played the game.

T-ball coach here. We do it after games. As does every other team we play against.

It's sort of silly but what's the big deal?So once a season you have to lay out 20 bucks? Cry me a river. Are you seriously that cheap? It's kind of a fun decompression time for the kids, parents can chat, coaches can talk about schedule issues or whatever. And it takes 5-10 minutes.

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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.

Yeah, these are not "hungry" kids. They just had lunch and will have dinner in 30. I feel like all kids do are snack. After games, walking down the street, at the park, in the car... snack, snack, snack.

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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.

Yeah, my kid is definitely hungry. If he wasn't hungry, he wouldn't eat. I'm not 100% sure what you mean by "the snack culture"? IDK what that is, or why it is "out of control." But if my kid plays an hour of soccer, he needs to eat something.

If your kid isn't hungry and you don't want them to eat, don't let them have the snack? That seems easier than trying to change other people's behavior, no?