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[quote=Anonymous]Just caught up on this thread and wow, it’s been a wild ride. I live on the west coast and we had much longer restrictions in my state that in the dmv. I am pretty tied in to our local swim gossip and I so wish I lived in the DMV still so I could hear the coaches’ and pool’s version of this. I will say that there are still some parents like OP out here that don’t take responsibility for their kids’ development and are coming in to things like gymnastics or swim and mad that their kid is 9 and being treated as a beginner.

Here’s the thing: before DD was born, we were already on two pool waitlists because swimming is important to me. I researched it carefully even though I grew up somewhere with easy pool access and think fighting for swim access is insane. We’re still on one wait list and drive 30 minutes to get to the pool we were able to join. During Covid when lessons were suspended and pools were closed, I was in a cold lake every day with my just-turned-5 year old kid with both of us in wetsuits making sure she was still on track with learning to swim. When our pools reopened, I was setting an alarm for 12 am and 6 am to reserve open swim time slots in an outdoor pool in November. DH would be on another laptop in case one of ours froze during signups. When mini swim team restarted with restricted spots, I was there on day 1 of signups with my deposit so she could start at the youngest age with the most intake spots. And yes, our team had kids go off blocks for the first time, all of the kids did what they could (countless jumps with streamline arms), and no one saw it as weird. When our gymnastics program folded, I started driving 45 minutes each way so DD could join another team.

What I did was pretty mild and I know parents who worked way harder to keep their kids on track. This is just part of life and you can’t be mad that other people are more on top of it and willing to be more cold or wet or tired than you are. When I hear parents out here whine that their kids can’t do swim because lessons are inconvenient or can’t do gym because it’s too far, I don’t have a lot of sympathy. Rec soccer is close and easy. Try that.[/quote]

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