Are swim moms like dance moms?!

[Anonymous]

This is an amazing thread. I have been a:
swim mom (winter)
summer swim mom; country club addition
baseball mom
basketball mom (club, HS, and elite travel)
soccer mom

The common thread is that the more elite you get, the worse the parents are. So winter swim is on par with the competitive dance moms, I'm guessing. Winter swim parents have fully bought in to early-ass practices (they wear them like some badge of honor), and the interminable weekend meets where their kids only swim for like 5 minutes total in an 8 hour committed day.

Baseball moms, particularly in our little league, are gross, but for other reasons. Moms on the same team buy matching clothes and accessories and I find the entire thing infantilizing.

Travel league parents put their travel kid above everything else - disrupting every other part of the family schedule.

And my fave: country club summer swim! I volunteer because I think it's fun, and it helps the meets go by faster. And yes - probably too much drinking at the end of the meet, but I generally like most of the other parents!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is an amazing thread. I have been a:
swim mom (winter)
summer swim mom; country club addition
baseball mom
basketball mom (club, HS, and elite travel)
soccer mom

The common thread is that the more elite you get, the worse the parents are. So winter swim is on par with the competitive dance moms, I'm guessing. Winter swim parents have fully bought in to early-ass practices (they wear them like some badge of honor), and the interminable weekend meets where their kids only swim for like 5 minutes total in an 8 hour committed day.

Baseball moms, particularly in our little league, are gross, but for other reasons. Moms on the same team buy matching clothes and accessories and I find the entire thing infantilizing.

Travel league parents put their travel kid above everything else - disrupting every other part of the family schedule.

And my fave: country club summer swim! I volunteer because I think it's fun, and it helps the meets go by faster. And yes - probably too much drinking at the end of the meet, but I generally like most of the other parents!

LOL didn't notice the autocorrect from edition to addition... Whoops!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find this analogy sexist because a lot of swim dads are insane

Idk. Are there dance dads?

I mean the children have fathers, but nobody gives a shit because what’s your kid going to grow up to be- Michael Jordan? Michael Phelps? Can’t name a single pro dancer. Nobody gets rich off dancing unless you work in a strip club.

So they’re confused as to why the moms care so much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is an amazing thread. I have been a:
swim mom (winter)
summer swim mom; country club addition
baseball mom
basketball mom (club, HS, and elite travel)
soccer mom

The common thread is that the more elite you get, the worse the parents are. So winter swim is on par with the competitive dance moms, I'm guessing. Winter swim parents have fully bought in to early-ass practices (they wear them like some badge of honor), and the interminable weekend meets where their kids only swim for like 5 minutes total in an 8 hour committed day.

Baseball moms, particularly in our little league, are gross, but for other reasons. Moms on the same team buy matching clothes and accessories and I find the entire thing infantilizing.

Travel league parents put their travel kid above everything else - disrupting every other part of the family schedule.

And my fave: country club summer swim! I volunteer because I think it's fun, and it helps the meets go by faster. And yes - probably too much drinking at the end of the meet, but I generally like most of the other parents!

IMO, the more elite a swimmer is the more chill the parents are. It’s the ones bickering over rec level summer swim that need to take a seat.

[Anonymous]

I don't know. There are definitely swim dads that walk around with their own stopwatches timing their kids.

And the baseball dads? Please.

[Anonymous]

bet stopwatch dads are more of a pain to their own kids unfortunately, than any adult

[Anonymous]

Soccer Daddies (of young daughters) take the trophy here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find this analogy sexist because a lot of swim dads are insane

Idk. Are there dance dads?

I mean the children have fathers, but nobody gives a shit because what’s your kid going to grow up to be- Michael Jordan? Michael Phelps? Can’t name a single pro dancer. Nobody gets rich off dancing unless you work in a strip club.

So they’re confused as to why the moms care so much.

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Eva Noblezada
Jonathan Bailey
Jordan Fisher
Caroline Bowman
Arianna DeBose
Jasmine Amy Rogers
Leslie Odom, Jr
Jonathan Groff
Gavin Creel (RIP)
Patina Miller
Laura Bell Bundy
Norbert Leo Butz
Kara Lindsay
Jane Krakowski
Neil Patrick Harris
Aaron Tveit
Daniel Radcliffe
Ben Vereen
Joel Grey
Patti LuPone
Bernadette Peters
Chita Rivera
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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is an amazing thread. I have been a:
swim mom (winter)
summer swim mom; country club addition
baseball mom
basketball mom (club, HS, and elite travel)
soccer mom

The common thread is that the more elite you get, the worse the parents are. So winter swim is on par with the competitive dance moms, I'm guessing. Winter swim parents have fully bought in to early-ass practices (they wear them like some badge of honor), and the interminable weekend meets where their kids only swim for like 5 minutes total in an 8 hour committed day.

Baseball moms, particularly in our little league, are gross, but for other reasons. Moms on the same team buy matching clothes and accessories and I find the entire thing infantilizing.

Travel league parents put their travel kid above everything else - disrupting every other part of the family schedule.

And my fave: country club summer swim! I volunteer because I think it's fun, and it helps the meets go by faster. And yes - probably too much drinking at the end of the meet, but I generally like most of the other parents!

IMO, the more elite a swimmer is the more chill the parents are. It’s the ones bickering over rec level summer swim that need to take a seat.

I actually think the more elite swimmer the parents were, the chiller they are with their own swimmers. They know it’s not worth the insanity.

[Anonymous]

Just come and observe the parking lot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is an amazing thread. I have been a:
swim mom (winter)
summer swim mom; country club addition
baseball mom
basketball mom (club, HS, and elite travel)
soccer mom

The common thread is that the more elite you get, the worse the parents are. So winter swim is on par with the competitive dance moms, I'm guessing. Winter swim parents have fully bought in to early-ass practices (they wear them like some badge of honor), and the interminable weekend meets where their kids only swim for like 5 minutes total in an 8 hour committed day.

Baseball moms, particularly in our little league, are gross, but for other reasons. Moms on the same team buy matching clothes and accessories and I find the entire thing infantilizing.

Travel league parents put their travel kid above everything else - disrupting every other part of the family schedule.

And my fave: country club summer swim! I volunteer because I think it's fun, and it helps the meets go by faster. And yes - probably too much drinking at the end of the meet, but I generally like most of the other parents!

IMO, the more elite a swimmer is the more chill the parents are. It’s the ones bickering over rec level summer swim that need to take a seat.

I actually think the more elite swimmer the parents were, the chiller they are with their own swimmers. They know it’s not worth the insanity.

I completely agree.

[Anonymous]

I’m both a swim and a dance mom. Dance moms prob worse I think haha

[Anonymous]

I just really want to reiterate that when people talk about "dance moms" they are talking about moms whose kids do competition dance teams, like the kids on the show "Dance Moms."

Many, many kids do dance and don't do competition teams, and these kids have moms and dads who take them to class and help run recitals and do their hair and fix their costumes, but it's not competitive the way competition dance is and these parents tend to be perfectly normal and just supporting their kids in an activity that is both athletic and artistic and as worthwhile as learning an instrument, playing a sport, or pursuing an academic extra-curricular.

Please don't confuse "dance moms" with parents who just have kids who dance. They are two different things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find this analogy sexist because a lot of swim dads are insane

Idk. Are there dance dads?

I mean the children have fathers, but nobody gives a shit because what’s your kid going to grow up to be- Michael Jordan? Michael Phelps? Can’t name a single pro dancer. Nobody gets rich off dancing unless you work in a strip club.

So they’re confused as to why the moms care so much.

Sutton Foster
Hugh Jackman
Eva Noblezada
Jonathan Bailey
Jordan Fisher
Caroline Bowman
Arianna DeBose
Jasmine Amy Rogers
Leslie Odom, Jr
Jonathan Groff
Gavin Creel (RIP)
Patina Miller
Laura Bell Bundy
Norbert Leo Butz
Kara Lindsay
Jane Krakowski
Neil Patrick Harris
Aaron Tveit
Daniel Radcliffe
Ben Vereen
Joel Grey
Patti LuPone
Bernadette Peters
Chita Rivera
The companies of: Cats, Newsies, Anything Goes, Wicked, and most ensemble members of Broadway shows or musical movies[/quote

Thank you, Broadway fan! I love the random order that you’ve listed these performers - terrific download ❤️

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is an amazing thread. I have been a:
swim mom (winter)
summer swim mom; country club addition
baseball mom
basketball mom (club, HS, and elite travel)
soccer mom

The common thread is that the more elite you get, the worse the parents are. So winter swim is on par with the competitive dance moms, I'm guessing. Winter swim parents have fully bought in to early-ass practices (they wear them like some badge of honor), and the interminable weekend meets where their kids only swim for like 5 minutes total in an 8 hour committed day.

Baseball moms, particularly in our little league, are gross, but for other reasons. Moms on the same team buy matching clothes and accessories and I find the entire thing infantilizing.

Travel league parents put their travel kid above everything else - disrupting every other part of the family schedule.

And my fave: country club summer swim! I volunteer because I think it's fun, and it helps the meets go by faster. And yes - probably too much drinking at the end of the meet, but I generally like most of the other parents!

IMO, the more elite a swimmer is the more chill the parents are. It’s the ones bickering over rec level summer swim that need to take a seat.

I actually think the more elite swimmer the parents were, the chiller they are with their own swimmers. They know it’s not worth the insanity.

I completely agree.

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