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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish our pool would post and enforce standards with regard to the baby pool. A few years ago a lifeguard yelled at one of my kids for using a foam squirter in the baby pool, and we never brought one again. But no one else seems to know that, and some people don't seem to care about anyone else. [b]Just the other day I had some adult woman chasing her (well over the baby pool age) daughter around the baby pool, both of them blasting anyone who was within 10 feet.[/b] A few signs and standards, and the occasional intervention by a lifeguard would be worthwhile. I think a lot of the time, particularly on a hot Saturday afternoon, the offenders are guests of regular members who just don't know any better.

But I do think there are different standards for the regular "big" pool. If you don't want to be splashed or squirted or whatever, you shouldn't be in there. So I don't police my older child playing marco polo or squirting his friends in the big pool. I still watch but I don't monitor his every move. The lifeguards do whistle if the mayhem there gets out of hand.[/quote]

I wonder if we go to the same pool because I had the same thing happen about a week and a half ago.

Saturday I had to yell at four boys, probably between 8-10 (regardless, definitely over the baby pool age) bumrush the baby pool and start throwing buckets of water at each other. The water was coming out of the pool so I said "Hey! Boys, keep it in the pool" (when I really wanted to tell them to get the eff out of the pool, but there was no one else in the baby pool so I felt that was all I could say) A mom then came into the baby pool and told the boys to leave (yay!) but the kid didn't listen (boo!) so the mom just walked away shaking her head. Nice.

I just wonder what the line is for what you can say or not say to other people's kids. Being a new member, I don't want to single ourselves out and be known as the "pool assholes" but at the same time, I pay what they pay, so my kids should be able to play in peace, right? I guess I just need to get over worrying about what other parents would think of us.[/quote]

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