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[quote=Anonymous]This is right. Not all NCAP sites are the same. OP should talk to people on their summer swim team about where they swim year round. And just FYI, serious swimmers don't go to summer camp or travel a lot in the summer.[/quote]
So if your kid is a serious swimmer both parents can’t work in the summers because you can’t enroll your kid in camp, and you can’t take family vacations 🙄 Maybe if you are Katie Ledecky (news flash you aren’t), but otherwise this is absurd.[/quote]

Many, many kids over 12 or 13 don't go to summer camp anymore. If you live near a neighborhood pool, they can spend a couple of years hanging out at the neighborhood pool and doing whatever else you organize for them.  By 15, they can be lifeguarding or working elsewhere. Plenty of younger kids go to camp and do swim team.  Many swimming families also defer vacation until August because there are long course meets their kids are training for at the end of July or the first week in August. As your kids get older, you'll likely also schedule vacations around whatever activities are important to them.  [/quote]
All of this is a lot different than the blanket statement that “serious swimmers don’t go to summer camp or travel a lot in the summer”. [b]If your kid is not HS age, [/b]it is not expected that a parent quit working in the summer or that there are no family vacations until August. Unless you are an elite level talent, family functions should not be completely at the whim of swim schedules, and I say this as a parent of a kid that loves swimming. The swim parent craziness in this area is next level.[/quote]

It’s always a choice, but people are scheduling around sports, including swimming way before HS! We started vacationing in August when my oldest was 6. By the time she was 8, it was because of All Stars. When she was 9+ it was because of club swimming meets as well. “Swimmers vacation in August” is not an uncommon statement. When mine went to sleep away camp, that was also in August.

No one said we parents aren’t working the rest of the summer! [/quote]

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