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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The key is consistency. Make sure they go to bed at the same time every night. No later than 8 for a 4:30 practice.  Do not let them sleep in or stay up on the weekends more than an hour off their regular schedule. Obviously there will be an exception here or there.

Eat cereal or a granola bar or breakfast bar on the way to practice. Then eat something larger on the way to school. If they get on schedule, they do not need to sleep in the car to maximize sleep. They will already get enough.

If your kid doesn’t want to do that and complains about it, switch to an afternoon group. It’s just not worth it. This is the only way you can swim in the morning without compromising health and wellness, which you need to swim a good workout anyway.

As for the parents, you just do it. It’s not fun. But you just suck it up. [/quote]

Agree and most importantly they need to be able to be a student during the day.  I know it wouldn't work for our family or my kid who wants to pursue other things besides swim as well so we would never do the morning practices.  He has a friend who does it and it's their whole life (which is a fine decision...kid loves it).  He tells me X kid is never ever seen outside of school by any school friends.[/quote]

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