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[quote=Anonymous]NP here. What’s up with pools and 10 year old boys? Does chlorine cause some kind of feral reaction? We belong to two pools this summer (because we got off the waitlist at one after committing to membership at the first), and so we have a huge sample of n=2, and the boys that age at both pools are absolute jerks. The lifeguards regularly pull boys this age from the pool for hitting kids with noodles, doing illegal dives off the board, yanking on lanelines, intentionally splashing adults or little kids, etc. The stuff that doesn’t get policed by lifeguards is just as annoying: stealing little kids’ diving toys, wresting floaties away from smaller kids, causing total havoc in the locker room, and throwing wrappers all over the parking lot. I can’t tell if it’s a normal developmental stage or if parents of boys this age just give up or if they mistakenly think their kids are old enough to be unsupervised. Either way, I think it’s my new least favorite boy age. [/quote]
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