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[quote=Anonymous]Swimming makes me wonder how much unsupervised time she has at the pool or on meet days?

Our pool this summer was a cesspool of negative talk among the older girls and coarse, gross talk among the older boys. I posted before about it in a similar context.  I spent hours per day overhearing everything because I was watching a younger child and was a parent rep. Because I’m a middle-aged mom, I’m invisible to tween girls so they talk amongst themselves about *everything* in front of me. A certain clique of 10-12 year olds spent a ton of time hiding in the locker room and on the deck scrutinizing their bodies, trash-talking each other, talking about fatness, criticizing their own hair, etc. My daughter overheard it and we had a big talk later about how we talk about ourselves and others and how wrong those girls were. Note that she is in low-key dance and serious competitive gymnastics and she had never heard anything like this there. However, two of the ringleader tweens are in a ballet school associated with a pre-professional program.[/quote]

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