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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.

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!

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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 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.

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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.