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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well I’m at the meet and saw my kid swim and timed him so I know his time. Not sure what the big deal is. [/quote]

The obsessive spreadsheet parents need to get ahead of their data entry for their kid and all their rivals today or their whole weekend is just ruined.[/quote]

There is truth in this statement.  I have had multiple swimmers (big family) and of varying levels and interest.  I have one kid swimming D1, another that will be done after high school, and two that might swim club in college.  I was an athlete (not a swimmer) and were a number of siblings.  The obsessive parents - those focused on time drops every time, comparing their swimmer to their friends, needling the coaches or constantly telling coaches what their kids should work on, the 13&O kid that it is still crying after every race they did not time drop, they are not long for this sport.  When a kid is running to mom and dad in the stands instead of talking to their coach about what happened in the water first - they will wash out once mom and dad are not there to micromanage them.  It is sad, because those parents are stealing the joy of the sport and ruining it.

I hope that some will change their ways, but they won't.  Then they will wonder why their kid quit or failed, and all the red flags were there for years.[/quote]

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