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[quote=Anonymous]It's also challenging to moderate some kids' expectations between summer swim and winter club. Summer swim is dazzling to a 6-year-old: the friends! the endless junk food! the parties! the costumes! the music! the cheering! the ribbons! Winter club is laps. And no one announces your name at a meet, and there is no dual-meet competition to foster team spirit. You wait 3 hours, swim 2 minutes, and go home. Kids adjust, but some of them definitely actively dislike winter swim. It is difficult to prep a first-grader for the differences, but in our house we focus on how winter swim is a healthy activity to keep them strong, and we try to enroll alongside friends so they can spend practices swimming together. We also acknowledge that winter swim makes summer swim more fun, because more stamina and faster times = more racing.[/quote]
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