How do you make summer swim with RTO?

[Anonymous]

Looking for tips and tricks. We have been teleworking so it was not an issues. We can't be the only family in this position.

[Anonymous]

What time is your practice? Ours start at 5 pm to accommodate working families.

[Anonymous]

Our pool has pm practice as well as am.

[Anonymous]

We have an au pair

[Anonymous]

OMG. Did you know that a lot of people have been working in offices for their entire career? Here are things that we and our friends do:

1. Early practice (7:30am) or late practice (6:00pm)
2. Summer camp with swim (some pools have camp after swim)
3. Summer nanny instead of full day camp
4. Carpooling with friends - last summer we alternated weeks with our neighbors with picking up kids from practice at 9:00, taking them to camp, and getting to work at 10:00.

[Anonymous]

Our younger kids practice at 7 am and 8 am, so all 10 and unders are done by 9. We then run to camp and head into the office. Most camps start at 8 or 9 anyhow. We do not have evening practices, we used to, but they got rid of them because you could see that evening practices were not as good and not every day like the morning sessions. So all the kids making A meets were club or those going to morning.

The families with the 11-12 range seem to hire high school or college kids to watch them, take them to practice, etc, and not pay for camps. Over 13, those kids are home alone.

So it works. We just juggle our schedule a little with hours.

[Anonymous]

We have a 7am practice that is open to swimmers of all ages. It's mostly either the youngest whose parents need to get them to camp or the teens who have summer jobs.

When my kids were little DH and I would flex our working hours more than the normal school day schedule and most bosses themselves have kids and were accommodating. Other families teleworked, had SAHPs or nannies or summer babysitters.

It's tougher when you aren't teleworking but it can be possible.

[Anonymous]

This is the first year we will do a summer nanny for this reason. As we have always worked in an office and kids didn't like pm practices.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OMG. Did you know that a lot of people have been working in offices for their entire career? Here are things that we and our friends do:

1. Early practice (7:30am) or late practice (6:00pm)
2. Summer camp with swim (some pools have camp after swim)
3. Summer nanny instead of full day camp
4. Carpooling with friends - last summer we alternated weeks with our neighbors with picking up kids from practice at 9:00, taking them to camp, and getting to work at 10:00.

On what planet can an office worker's children do a 7:30 am practice? Most people start at 8 am.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG. Did you know that a lot of people have been working in offices for their entire career? Here are things that we and our friends do:

1. Early practice (7:30am) or late practice (6:00pm)
2. Summer camp with swim (some pools have camp after swim)
3. Summer nanny instead of full day camp
4. Carpooling with friends - last summer we alternated weeks with our neighbors with picking up kids from practice at 9:00, taking them to camp, and getting to work at 10:00.

On what planet can an office worker's children do a 7:30 am practice? Most people start at 8 am.

Maybe head in later? or go in earlier come back home and go back to work? Everyone's situation is different and not every team has before work/after work practices. Also, consider the possibility that it might NOT be doable for you until the kids are a bit older.

[Anonymous]

Lots of people don't do swim team because it is not conducive to working parents. We hired a nanny for years during the summer so kids could do swim team.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG. Did you know that a lot of people have been working in offices for their entire career? Here are things that we and our friends do:

1. Early practice (7:30am) or late practice (6:00pm)
2. Summer camp with swim (some pools have camp after swim)
3. Summer nanny instead of full day camp
4. Carpooling with friends - last summer we alternated weeks with our neighbors with picking up kids from practice at 9:00, taking them to camp, and getting to work at 10:00.

On what planet can an office worker's children do a 7:30 am practice? Most people start at 8 am.

My office has complete flex time. Some of my childless co-workers have been known to come in as late as 4pm and work overnight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG. Did you know that a lot of people have been working in offices for their entire career? Here are things that we and our friends do:

1. Early practice (7:30am) or late practice (6:00pm)
2. Summer camp with swim (some pools have camp after swim)
3. Summer nanny instead of full day camp
4. Carpooling with friends - last summer we alternated weeks with our neighbors with picking up kids from practice at 9:00, taking them to camp, and getting to work at 10:00.

On what planet can an office worker's children do a 7:30 am practice? Most people start at 8 am.

Maybe head in later? or go in earlier come back home and go back to work? Everyone's situation is different and not every team has before work/after work practices. Also, consider the possibility that it might NOT be doable for you until the kids are a bit older.

Or you could plan to do club for the short course season, sign-up for LC assuming that that club team has 5:30 AM practices. That'll satisfy the practice checkbox and maybe try to attend summer practices as your schedules permit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of people don't do swim team because it is not conducive to working parents. We hired a nanny for years during the summer so kids could do swim team.

+1 my kids never did summer swim. They went to camps and did some swimming then.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG. Did you know that a lot of people have been working in offices for their entire career? Here are things that we and our friends do:

1. Early practice (7:30am) or late practice (6:00pm)
2. Summer camp with swim (some pools have camp after swim)
3. Summer nanny instead of full day camp
4. Carpooling with friends - last summer we alternated weeks with our neighbors with picking up kids from practice at 9:00, taking them to camp, and getting to work at 10:00.

On what planet can an office worker's children do a 7:30 am practice? Most people start at 8 am.

I never did, not in Boston or DC. 9.