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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The parent making the Olympic comment and telling everyone to relax was making fun of driven/competitive kids.  They were also going after the parent.

I have several kids that swim competitively.  I have one of those crazy kids who is obsessed with swimming.  People are going to think I push, but believe me, I do not.  My other kids will skip practice or do other things.  MY competitive kid gets angry when I make them skip.

If there is a family where all the kids are super competitive I would suspect the parents are pushing it.  It would not be normal to have all kids have the same passion.[/quote]

I agree.    One family I knew when my kids were younger would reward their kids when they got best times and would take away electronics if they added.  They also paid a lot of money for private lessons and trainers when the kids were already in the pool 5 or 6 days a week. It seemed beyond crazy to me and I was not sure if the kids even liked to swim. [/quote]

We have a family on our summer team that swims club.  Their kids are really good and they act like it is all natural talent.  Come to find out that they have both of the kids getting lots of private coaching (they kind of wigged when that came out) at a VERY young age, they are pushing their club to put their (at the time) 12 year old into the top swim group of the club, and they were pushing the kids to break records for summer so hard that the younger one was DQing on basic stuff and not even realizing it (false start, wrong strokes) and the dad FLIPPED out on deck throwing stuff on the ground.

They act super chill, or tried. They are far from chill. It is crazy.  Sorry I have a teen swimming and you would have to be Olympic level to have an 11-12 in the top performing group in any club. There is no way that they could keep up or it would be developmentally appropriate.

I hope that both their kids keep it up, because it is so obvious that the parents are living through their kids' success and pushing them very hard.[/quote]

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