AM Hucks: Parents Trample Family Values @ Egg Hunt

There was a reason Family Phil Corless of Coeur d’Alene was stumbling around his backyard in his flip-flops at 2:30 Easter morning. He was hiding 100 eggs and trying to give his two kids a wonderful Easter Sunday memory to wash away the one from the hunt gone wrong on the previous day. Seems Phil took his kids to a ha-huge Easter egg hunt at the Dave Smith car dealership in Coeur d’Alene over the weekend. He’d heard great things about past hunts and the neat prizes handed out. Well, the dealership’s heart was in the right place. But the same can’t be said for some of the parents. “I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,” writes Phil in his blog, A Family Runs Through It. “One mother even grabbed an egg right out from under a child’s hand.” The kids were satisfied with the candy, but the parents were after the “bling,” according to Phil. “Before the hunt began, the organizers repeatedly asked the adults to step back from the egg hunt entrances, to let all the children get to the front, but only a few parents complied,” Phil continued. “There were many sobbing kids who weren’t able to get past the wall of grown-ups.” In the end, the egg-hunt-turned-riot transformed a sea of eggs into a field of broken plastic and flattened candy. Phil: “I saw more than one parent throwing an egg and its contents to the ground when it didn’t contain a prize number.” Afterward, Family Phil said he felt rotten that his kids had witnessed such greed and selfishness. Dunno how Family Phil’s hunt turned out. But is sounds as though he’s instilling the right values in his youngsters.