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Teenagers cursing at swimming pool around small children
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Anonymous
1. Where do I defend the behavior? 2. Why is it my job to correct it? |
Anonymous
actually just came back from the city for drinks, and tomorrow night we will go back to the city for dinner. tomorrow we are going to the pool, and I can guarantee you 100% the kids will not hear the "N" word there. best of both worlds. |
Anonymous
Obviously your children haven't hit high school yet. There's quite a bit of cursing at that level - even in the burbs, baby! |
Anonymous
of course. but what does that have to do with anything? They won't hear it from me then either. and high school kids at my pool don't walk around cursing loudly. I remember the first day of my high school years, I heard a trashy girl yell "suck my puss motherfucker!". not like I am 90 years old, I remember high school. |
Anonymous
You can't escape it; that's my point. Just b/c you don't hear it at your "burbs pool" doesn't mean your children are sheltered.
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Anonymous
| well I disagree 100%. I've lived in the city and lived in the suburbs. You can certainly shelter young kids from that kind of behavior. And even when they get to high school, there is no comparison between the experiences they will have at city pools or city athletics compared to suburban pools and suburban athletics (or suburban shopping, etc.) I've coached youth basketball. The city games are basically X rated, parents and kids. |
Anonymous
Applebee's was great! How was our evening? Did you enjoy hanging out with the gang, trash talking about your pretend conquests and having a bottle of crow on the bench with Jorge the whino? |
Anonymous
| are there private pools you can join in DC where you can avoid these kinds of thugs? |
Anonymous
Wow - I hope my kids NEVER have you as a teacher. "Such is life" for teenagers cursing around young children is not an appropriate answer. You should stop cursing in front of your children - that's disgusting. |
Anonymous
cheverly |
Anonymous
pardon me, cheverly is actually in Maryland, but it is really close. There are also private swim clubs in Dc (hotel pools, University club, etc.) but few are focused on kids. |
Anonymous
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Not OP, but we have gone to several pools in DC. I think it depends on which pool you visit. We went to Randall also. At Randall one mom stood in front of the entire pool and yelled at the top of her lungs to everyone, "No more Mother F'n Dunking at this pool!!!!" (Of course, she used the entire F word, not just F'n.) She repeated this two or three times. THEN, at break time, many of the teenagish kids starting telling others what the mom had done - yep, they repeated the exact phase to other moms and other kids. It was great (sarcasm). If the parents are cursing and the kids are cursing, I guess the lifeguards can't do anything about it. It's sad that the parents are not teaching more respectful behavior to the children.
Also, we went to Langdon Park Pool over the weekend and the lifeguards were great! They actually made some young boys apologize to us for getting in our way. I actually did not care at all because the boys were just trying to get a ball which had gone outside the pool and they sort of were running around us as we tried to pass by. BUT, the lifeguard made the boys go all the way to the other side and apologize to me and to go back to the lifeguard and speak with him again. I think it was great that the lifeguard and the community in that neighborhood, apparently, is showing respect for others. Definitely no curse words at this pool!! 
So, it really depends on which pool you want to visit...... |
Anonymous
Wow - I can't believe that a mother of young children who doesn't want her kids hearing other kids yell "Mother F***" this and that across the pool is compared to Mary Poppins. How has society changed so much? I think we understand that teenagers curse, but at least when I was growing up, we knew not to do it in front of young kids and adults. So sad. |
Anonymous
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That's a world that I just can't relate to at all. At our pool, they would immediately kick the kids out and call their parents. There was a group of kids using bad language at our pool.....not really cursing, just being crude a few weeks ago. And they were doing it in the shallow end where the little kids were playing. I asked them to stop. And they responded, "yes ma'am".
Sorry, but it's not acceptable behavior. By allowing it to continue, those of you living in the city are condoning it. It doesn't happen at our pool because we don't allow it. |
Anonymous
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I'm a dad of young girls. If I take my girls to a baseball game and hear teenagers (or older) dropping a lot of F bombs right in front of it, I will politely ask them to knock it off. Normally they are cool about it.
If I were at these kinds of pools, I probably wouldn't say anything for fear of getting my ass kicked. So I don't go to these pools |