The Easter Egg Hunt

So my city had an Easter Egg Hunt the day before Easter and my husband and I thought it would be fun to take our daughters to it. We split up, my husband took daughter one (and daughter three who stayed in the stroller) to the 3-4 year old group and I took daughter two to the under 2 group. While we waited my husband told daughter one not to push anyone or take candy from anyone else...etc. Then the horn went off...parents swarmed the section that I was in, I tried to encourage my daughter to get some candy off the ground, by the time she finally got it the candy was all gone. We got 3 things. Then I saw a mom walk by with 3/4 of a bucket full of candy; it left me flabbergasted, there is no way that her child picked up all that candy. We were done, so I went to go find my husband. He told me that parents had swarmed this groups too. That really surprised me, because I know that 3-4 year olds can get candy on their own. He just stayed out and watched our daughter. I still feel so frustrated by this experience. What are parents teaching their young children? Greed? that they can't do things on their own? No wonder we have a society that can't do things for themselves. As we were leaving my husband overheard someone say to their daddy, "I wanted to get an egg" and the dad replied, "well, you just have to be quicker and faster." Really? If we taught our kids lasting principles like sharing then maybe there would have been enough eggs for everyone, after all the fields were loaded with candy. My daughters did have fun, but I don't think that we will go back, it wasn't really worth our time, but it definitely made me more motivated to teach my children important values.