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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You swim mommies are annoying AF.  Such whiners.  It is a sport where they swim the length of a pool and back.  Who gives a crap about the birthdays.  Can you not make anything fun?  Is everything a competition in your poor kids life? Swim team is supposed to be enjoyable.  Parents ruin everything [/quote]

I cannot like this post enough!  Thank you, summer swim is for fun and its a short little season with short distances so that it is accessibly to all kids.  It's weird that people bring winter swim examples into this at all.  The vast majority of summer swim kids don't swim year round.  They are there to cheer, have fun and hang out with friends.  [/quote]

For some kids, it’s a record that they could break or a meet they could make or a relay they could be on but for…

It’s the rule. It 100% favors some kids. It won’t change so we have to accept it. But for a club swimmer who works hard all year, it’s a tough thing to accept when you see a kid break an NVSL record and he’s already the next age and your club swimmer, who swims nearly an identical time but was born 2 weeks earlier, it’s much more than a 25 meter swim. For a club swimmer with a bad swim birthday, that birthday haunts them for nearly every meet, all year. [/quote]

I'm the PP.  I totally get where you are coming from here.  It is your child's chosen sport so he/she sees these kids marching into summer swim from year round competitive swim and crushing records when in winter swim they have aged out of that bracket.

I am viewing through the lens of a parent whose kid doesn't swim year round so to me it just seems silly and chaotic for a Rec league that lasts 5-7 weeks to have a bunch of kids moving in and out of age brackets in a short amount of time. Particularly for kids who have to move from 25s to 50s or 100s in the middle of the summer when they only swim for a few weeks and they swim for fun, I guarantee many would quit and they are the bedrock of recreational summer swim.  Please keep in mind that my kids are watching all the year round swimmers, yours included, regardless of when they turn x age march into the recreational summer swim league and crush records, make all stars or divisionals because the distances are much shorter and easier for those kids.

None of us should lose sight that summer swim is meant to be a fun bonding experience for all the kids who enjoy swimming.  [/quote]

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