Unreasonable rule for swim lessons? (RE: requiring swim diapers)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I agree with you, that's ridiculous. I had a late potty-trainer and even she was well out of swim diapers by 3. Not only is it an unnecessary expense for families whose kids don't need them, ugh, all those extra unused diapers going into landfills is not great. I'd push back on that.

What's hilarious is that, to my knowledge, it's not a rule that is at all enforced when it comes to just general swimming around the pool.

It litteraly is only something they push for kids that are involved in swim lessons.

Like...what??!

Maybe they find that kids don’t want to “interrupt” the lesson or they’re too distracted so they’re more likely to have accidents? I mean probably what happened is a series of poop accidents and then a rule that is on the conservative side. I don’t see why it’s a big deal.

Because it's just more plastic for landfills, that's going to end up as hormone disruptors. And it's an added financial cost for the swim lesson. If management wants diapers on all little kids, they should buy them out of their pool budget!

Absolutely not.how absurd. If you don’t like their requirements for lessons, don’t use their services. Simple.

[Anonymous]

My 4.5 year old pooped in the pool during a lesson this year. It was of course massively embarrassing even though the swim program was incredibly kind about it. But this is a kid who has been sitting on the toilet for number two since before age 2, and fully trained no diapers at all by age 2.5. Never had a poop accident before. He claims he didn’t feel it coming…. He now wears reusable swim diapers. I’ll keep him in them for another few months to be sure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 4.5 year old pooped in the pool during a lesson this year. It was of course massively embarrassing even though the swim program was incredibly kind about it. But this is a kid who has been sitting on the toilet for number two since before age 2, and fully trained no diapers at all by age 2.5. Never had a poop accident before. He claims he didn’t feel it coming…. He now wears reusable swim diapers. I’ll keep him in them for another few months to be sure.

Ok, but for a kid who has already been potty trained for a few years, I'm not sure how a few months in a swim diaper will solve the issue of them not feeling it coming.....

FWIW, make sure you have a snugly fitted swim diaper because a lot aren't. A toddler recently had a poop accident in our community pool- and they were wearing a disposable swim diaper! If you don't get them out of the pool quick they will likely leak out.

[Anonymous]

My DC is a lifeguard, and you would be shocked at how often "trained" kids poop in the pool. Given that the not potty trained kids are wearing swim diapers, every incident is caused by someone who is potty trained. They have to close the pool every time it happens. Be grateful for the rule and don't fight it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DC is a lifeguard, and you would be shocked at how often "trained" kids poop in the pool. Given that the not potty trained kids are wearing swim diapers, every incident is caused by someone who is potty trained. They have to close the pool every time it happens. Be grateful for the rule and don't fight it.

I was a lifeguard and this is no joke - it cancels the swim lessons for the day. If you want your kid to get all their lessons (no refunds for pooping in the pool!), just put them in a swim diaper.

[Anonymous]

Ask your local buy nothing if anyone has a reusable swim diaper up for grabs or go to target $8 on sale now

[Anonymous]

Doesn’t matter if it’s unreasonable: it’s the rule. Don’t like it? Don’t take classes there.

Pretty simple.

[Anonymous]

My fully trained 4yo once jumped in and immediately pooped. It wasn’t a choice or an “emergency”; it was a physical response to the water being very cold that day. We apologized profusely, tipped beyond, and the lifeguards told us that cold water + little kids who are totally potty trained sometimes lead to poop. So while they don’t have that policy at our pool, I wouldn’t doubt a group of lifeguards to know what rules need to be set for their program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My fully trained 4yo once jumped in and immediately pooped. It wasn’t a choice or an “emergency”; it was a physical response to the water being very cold that day. We apologized profusely, tipped beyond, and the lifeguards told us that cold water + little kids who are totally potty trained sometimes lead to poop. So while they don’t have that policy at our pool, I wouldn’t doubt a group of lifeguards to know what rules need to be set for their program.

Yeah it really seems that any kid 6 and under should be wearing a swim diaper. It’s a huge downer when the pool has to close for a poop accident.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My fully trained 4yo once jumped in and immediately pooped. It wasn’t a choice or an “emergency”; it was a physical response to the water being very cold that day. We apologized profusely, tipped beyond, and the lifeguards told us that cold water + little kids who are totally potty trained sometimes lead to poop. So while they don’t have that policy at our pool, I wouldn’t doubt a group of lifeguards to know what rules need to be set for their program.

Pooping in the pool is very natural for little kids when the water is very cold. That is the reason for this rule. Don’t like the rule, move to another facility.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My fully trained 4yo once jumped in and immediately pooped. It wasn’t a choice or an “emergency”; it was a physical response to the water being very cold that day. We apologized profusely, tipped beyond, and the lifeguards told us that cold water + little kids who are totally potty trained sometimes lead to poop. So while they don’t have that policy at our pool, I wouldn’t doubt a group of lifeguards to know what rules need to be set for their program.

Yeah it really seems that any kid 6 and under should be wearing a swim diaper. It’s a huge downer when the pool has to close for a poop accident.

Why 6 though? At what point do kids outgrow this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 4.5 year old pooped in the pool during a lesson this year. It was of course massively embarrassing even though the swim program was incredibly kind about it. But this is a kid who has been sitting on the toilet for number two since before age 2, and fully trained no diapers at all by age 2.5. Never had a poop accident before. He claims he didn’t feel it coming…. He now wears reusable swim diapers. I’ll keep him in them for another few months to be sure.

Ok, but for a kid who has already been potty trained for a few years, I'm not sure how a few months in a swim diaper will solve the issue of them not feeling it coming.....

FWIW, make sure you have a snugly fitted swim diaper because a lot aren't. A toddler recently had a poop accident in our community pool- and they were wearing a disposable swim diaper! If you don't get them out of the pool quick they will likely leak out.

That’s why you need the rubber pants OVER the swim diaper. I thought this was well known?