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[quote=Anonymous]If you had kids age up on their birthday, this would just be YET ANOTHER awkward thing for kids who have summer birthdays to deal with.

My kid is still in elementary and doing summer swim is important to her in part because it allows her to celebrate her birthday with a friend group at swim. Seriously, that's like 70% of the reason she likes doing it. All her friends have always celebrated their birthdays during the school year, it's a big deal to younger kids in particular -- you go to school and everyone says happy birthday to you and when you are little your parents even send in cupcakes or something. You get to be the star of the day. For years my kid never got this and it mattered to her. And then in the summer often her friends would be traveling on her birthday so she had smaller parties. She noticed and while it's not like she had a big complex about it, it was one of the things in life that she just found unfair and was sad about.

Enter summer swim, which allows her to celebrate her birthday with her swim team and invite the team to her party and feel like she gets a special day. It's a big deal to her!

And now people want her to literally age out of her team on her birthday and move to a different team with people she may or may not know, because they are upset about rec swim league results and my kids "unfair advantage" because she is a couple months older than their kid? Really?

Y'all have the weirdest possible priorities. This is not even competitive swimming. Can you please just let kids enjoy their summer and have fun with their friends doing an activity they enjoy?

This is not some conspiracy by BIG SUMMER BIRTHDAY PARENTS. I truly do not care how my child does in competition -- she does summer swim for fun.[/quote]

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