Snack momming

I find it so weird that after a game, the coach or parents aren't taking the kids out to eat. ?

That whole social aspect of meeting up with the other team at a restaurant, sitting and eating and goofing off together, that is one of the best parts of team sports.

Am I missing something? There was nothing like this when I was in school, and not with the kids I am familiar with. They throw a sammich and a piece of fruit or something in their bags themselves before the game and practice, but after a game - coach or some of the adults take them to a restaurant Always.

So, are all the kids snacking on the sidelines before heading home after the game ...this snack mom thing is something new to me!

people are not willing to invest that much time into it, the game + go out. The kids have a schedule to keep...chop, chop, let's move it along please. Growing up during the 60's- 70's that is what was done. We had a huge pizza place called Barnaby's for which feeding the sports teams was their primary business.

Sure, I've been "accused" of being old fashioned before. Don't always keep up with the times!

Yeah, we usually went to Pizza Hut or something along that lines. I am not a mommy, but old enough to be. lol. The kids who are entrenched in my life tho aren't of the kind of pace of life where they have all that many slots to fill or places to be chop chop. haha.

Going out for pizza happens once in a while but not every week. I don't see how adding ANOTHER place they have to be eases up their schedule.

Typically the parents sign up at the beginning of the season to provide a snack after the game on a certain week. I have no idea how it worked 40 years ago when I was in elementary school since we didn't have sports teams until Jr. High.

I was really active in sports and never did that -- my kid's active in sports and she's never done that. (I'm 38, she's 8.)

I wonder if it's more a socioeconomic thing? We're not chop-chop and scheduled, (besides school, soccer's the only scheduled thing we have going on), but the coaches are unpaid volunteers and can't afford to pay for everyone's food, and I think they're hesitant to require that parents pay to go out to eat after every practice/ game as that would really add up too and a lot of people can't afford that, and it'd suck to exclude the kids whose parents can't afford it.

We live in a pretty economically diverse community now (some very poor, some quite well-off, and everywhere in between), and I grew up lower middle class (not a lot of money).

That's usually an end-of-season thing when it happens. I've done that twice with my kids and it was usually a pizza place where we could all sit, eat, and hand out trophies or whatever without breaking the bank. Definitely not every game.

Oh yeah, and I'm with shewolf on the Gogurt. Most kids yogurt has shitloads of artificial garbage in it, not the least of which is the awful food coloring.

So how did the fruit kabobs go over?

Probably more of a where-you-live thing.

Our coaches, and the coaches and parents of the kids I know, are unpaid as well.

The pool of money collected for the sport includes outings such as this. I know this is how it is done even at the community centers I've volunteered at : those kids and families can't even afford the fees, we raise the money so that those things can be done.

It doesn't ease up time at all. That's not really the point. It takes more time and effort overall, but it's just something I am familiar with.

I can think of some organized sports tho, now that I think about it further, where it's not done. Through churches, for one, where moms provide snacks.

It makes sense. I just find it interesting how so many posters chipped in - I didn't realize this was the norm. That's all.

Everyone loved the kabobs!

I had made several extras since there always seems to be a few tag-along kids but the weather that morning was SO nasty that even little brothers and sisters were ferried home before the game was over so I ended up with some fruit.

We've never done the pizza thing afterwards either, but I did end up with
a few kids (car pool) every now and then and we always went to a nutritious (not)
place afterwards before I dropped them off at home.

We also chipped in to buy the coaches gift certificates. One year we had
a soccer Mom whose family had a winery, so the coaches got really lucky.

msolga, string cheese is individually packaged sticks of mozzarella cheese.



boomer - I'm glad the fruit kabobs were a hit. I bet the candy bars were too!

Thank you, mac.
I was imagining a cheese product which somehow resembled the appearance of string! Perhaps to be eaten a thread at a time. Couldn't quite figure it out!

Well, you can.... you can eat the "stick" all at once, or you can nick out a tiny piece at the top, and pull off a "string" to eat. (That's the more-fun, kid-approved way.)

Here's a pic with some strings started:



A close-up:

Oh right, soz! Now I see!
Hey that looks like fun!

String cheese is the bomb . . . and the little doggies love it, too! They get frantic and dancey if i pull out some string cheese . . .

Ha! I can just picture the scene, Setanta!