S/O: appropriate amount of time to be on the swings when others are waiting.

[Anonymous]

You alls kids actually wait for the swing? My kids have zero patience! They will look from a distance and see if it is clear. If not, they keep playing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can I just add the obvious, which is that this doesn’t apply when non disabled kids are waiting for the accessible swing? I have had parents come over to demand a turn for their kid on what is literally the only piece of equipment he can use, and there are other swings, slides, and climbing equipment available.

And before someone asks, the other parent watched me lift my kid out of his wheelchair into the swing, so they didn’t miss the fact there was a disability.

Of course it applies you still get 5 minutes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You alls kids actually wait for the swing? My kids have zero patience! They will look from a distance and see if it is clear. If not, they keep playing.

My baby isn’t walking yet and only wants the swing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can I just add the obvious, which is that this doesn’t apply when non disabled kids are waiting for the accessible swing? I have had parents come over to demand a turn for their kid on what is literally the only piece of equipment he can use, and there are other swings, slides, and climbing equipment available.

And before someone asks, the other parent watched me lift my kid out of his wheelchair into the swing, so they didn’t miss the fact there was a disability.

Of course it applies you still get 5 minutes

No. Not unless there is another disabled child waiting for the swing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can I just add the obvious, which is that this doesn’t apply when non disabled kids are waiting for the accessible swing? I have had parents come over to demand a turn for their kid on what is literally the only piece of equipment he can use, and there are other swings, slides, and climbing equipment available.

And before someone asks, the other parent watched me lift my kid out of his wheelchair into the swing, so they didn’t miss the fact there was a disability.

Of course it applies you still get 5 minutes

Do you not understand why the accessibility swing exists?

I’m really asking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, 2 to 5 minutes. My 20 month old would stay on the swing forever so it’s good to set limits.

+2

Moms at the playground generally understand this. Dads, nannies/babysitters, and grandparents do not. Just my observation.

I think nannys know, too. I would add moms and dads during the weekdays understand this. The weekend parents (and grandparents) do not.

There is no such thing as a “weekend parent.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, 2 to 5 minutes. My 20 month old would stay on the swing forever so it’s good to set limits.

+2

Moms at the playground generally understand this. Dads, nannies/babysitters, and grandparents do not. Just my observation.

I think nannys know, too. I would add moms and dads during the weekdays understand this. The weekend parents (and grandparents) do not.

What a disgusting post. There's no such thing as weekend parent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, 2 to 5 minutes. My 20 month old would stay on the swing forever so it’s good to set limits.

+2

Moms at the playground generally understand this. Dads, nannies/babysitters, and grandparents do not. Just my observation.

I think nannys know, too. I would add moms and dads during the weekdays understand this. The weekend parents (and grandparents) do not.

There's always one #mama on here who tries to turn every single stupid post into a SAHM vs WOHM post. Shut up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, 2 to 5 minutes. My 20 month old would stay on the swing forever so it’s good to set limits.

+2

Moms at the playground generally understand this. Dads, nannies/babysitters, and grandparents do not. Just my observation.

I think nannys know, too. I would add moms and dads during the weekdays understand this. The weekend parents (and grandparents) do not.

What a disgusting post. There's no such thing as weekend parent.

Weekend dad is a pretty common term for a divorced dad who only sees his kids on weekends, PP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, 2 to 5 minutes. My 20 month old would stay on the swing forever so it’s good to set limits.

+2

Moms at the playground generally understand this. Dads, nannies/babysitters, and grandparents do not. Just my observation.

I think nannys know, too. I would add moms and dads during the weekdays understand this. The weekend parents (and grandparents) do not.

What a disgusting post. There's no such thing as weekend parent.

Sure there are. They are the parents who just go to the parks on the weekends not the weekdays.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can I just add the obvious, which is that this doesn’t apply when non disabled kids are waiting for the accessible swing? I have had parents come over to demand a turn for their kid on what is literally the only piece of equipment he can use, and there are other swings, slides, and climbing equipment available.

And before someone asks, the other parent watched me lift my kid out of his wheelchair into the swing, so they didn’t miss the fact there was a disability.

No, it absolutely does not apply to you or your child. Tell the parent “no”. That equipment is not for their kid.

+2

+100 not only do you not have to cede the swing to a non disabled kid, but if my kid is using that accessible swing they are expected to give it up the very MOMENT a disabled child wants to use it, whether they've been on it 10 minutes or 10 seconds.

Absolutely!

Nope. All kids need to learn manners and sharing. They can wait their turn as well. Scorch me I don’t care.

You do care and you care deeply what people think. You also need attention which is why you posted. You want to be seen as the “maverick” but nothing is farther from the truth.

I also do not believe that even you would leave a child waiting in his wheelchair with nothing else to donor play on she your child sits on the disabled swing.

I'm the PP who brought that up.

Plenty of people let their kids finish up their turn on the swing. That bothers me much less than the parents who ask my kid to get off.

My kid has manners, he gets sharing. Sharing means a child might not get to use your favorite piece of equipment, and has to be happy for a while with the slide or climbing, or something else, or a regular swing, while they wait for something else. It shouldn't mean that every kid has a choice of multiple pieces of equipment, and one child has none to use at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can I just add the obvious, which is that this doesn’t apply when non disabled kids are waiting for the accessible swing? I have had parents come over to demand a turn for their kid on what is literally the only piece of equipment he can use, and there are other swings, slides, and climbing equipment available.

And before someone asks, the other parent watched me lift my kid out of his wheelchair into the swing, so they didn’t miss the fact there was a disability.

Of course it applies you still get 5 minutes

What? No. As PP said, there is literally ONE piece of equipment on the whole playground that her child can use. Your lazy kid can wait for another swing or go find somewhere else to play. Entitled much?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can I just add the obvious, which is that this doesn’t apply when non disabled kids are waiting for the accessible swing? I have had parents come over to demand a turn for their kid on what is literally the only piece of equipment he can use, and there are other swings, slides, and climbing equipment available.

And before someone asks, the other parent watched me lift my kid out of his wheelchair into the swing, so they didn’t miss the fact there was a disability.

It would only apply to your child if another child with the same equipment needs were waiting, and then it would rotate back and forth between the two.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can I just add the obvious, which is that this doesn’t apply when non disabled kids are waiting for the accessible swing? I have had parents come over to demand a turn for their kid on what is literally the only piece of equipment he can use, and there are other swings, slides, and climbing equipment available.

And before someone asks, the other parent watched me lift my kid out of his wheelchair into the swing, so they didn’t miss the fact there was a disability.

No, it absolutely does not apply to you or your child. Tell the parent “no”. That equipment is not for their kid.

+2

+100 not only do you not have to cede the swing to a non disabled kid, but if my kid is using that accessible swing they are expected to give it up the very MOMENT a disabled child wants to use it, whether they've been on it 10 minutes or 10 seconds.

This, this and more this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are accessible swings? I want to make sure I haven’t been hogging it by accident. I don’t see any signs

Big plastic swing, capable of cradling a much larger child, or a swing that the wheelchair can go on.

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