How do you make summer swim with RTO?

[Anonymous]

We used to have an au pair for this reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Same.

[Anonymous]

This is why my kids have never been on 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.

A lot of people flex their hours. We have people in the office at 9 and 9:30. We also have some that are in at 6. Just depends.

[Anonymous]

Summer sitter. Then do swim and have the kids hang out. Cheaper than camps.

And for all the parents who didn't do swim, how did you make it work in summer. Most summer camps start at 8, 9 or even 10. And they are done at 3 or 4.

[Anonymous]

Both teams we've been on do evening practice. One does morning and evening and one just does evening. County does both.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Same.

That's not what's being asked.

[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.

+1

[Anonymous]

We never did. It was just too hard. Our pool’s summer swim team was designed by SAHM’s for a SAHM schedule. We did the tennis team instead. They were far more flexible and had evening 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.

This.
We carpool and pay a sitter for childcare.

[Anonymous]

Neighbor teen

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We never did. It was just too hard. Our pool’s summer swim team was designed by SAHM’s for a SAHM schedule. We did the tennis team instead. They were far more flexible and had evening practices.

It was designed to work best for children and the coaches coaching. Not around every parents varying work schedule.

[Anonymous]

We get a summer babysitter instead of camps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We never did. It was just too hard. Our pool’s summer swim team was designed by SAHM’s for a SAHM schedule. We did the tennis team instead. They were far more flexible and had evening practices.

You could have gone to another pool or the county team. Some of the swim coaches have other jobs, as do the teens who help so they are also designed around those schedules.

[Anonymous]

Once we had 2 kids a summer nanny was cheaper than paying for camps. Our pool also runs an all day camp though and a counselor will bring kids up for practice and then take them back down to camp