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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is so whiny. OMG!  You realize a summer birthday is only a few weeks older than a May birthday, right?  You don’t magically get bigger or strong or faster when you blow out the candles.

My summer birthday DC is always younger than your October Dc in school. If I red shirted, people would complain that my DC was too old. It’s like it’s OK for summer kids to always be on the young end, but people freak if they are older. Such weirdness. Spoiler: summer swim is just for fun.  We f you can’t see it that way, maybe you shouldn’t be involved. [/quote]
I have a May birthday swimmer, and the difference is that when she has just turned 10 she’s actually competing in her age group against some kids who turn 11 in June/July, so it’s not a few weeks it’s almost a full year. I do find it weird that club parents complain about this though, because other than the 11 year old who is also a club swimmer in my DDs age 9-10 age group, she still is faster because she swims year round. She just uses the 11 year old as a good comparison point, it bothers her not at all that her friend is 11 and still in the 9-10 age group. [/quote]

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