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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is an amazing thread. I have been a: 
swim mom (winter)
summer swim mom; country club addition
baseball mom
basketball mom (club, HS, and elite travel)
soccer mom

The common thread is that the more elite you get, the worse the parents are. So winter swim is on par with the competitive dance moms, I'm guessing. Winter swim parents have fully bought in to early-ass practices (they wear them like some badge of honor), and the interminable weekend meets where their kids only swim for like 5 minutes total in an 8 hour committed day.

Baseball moms, particularly in our little league, are gross, but for other reasons. Moms on the same team buy matching clothes and accessories and I find the entire thing infantilizing.

Travel league parents put their travel kid above everything else - disrupting every other part of the family schedule.

And my fave: country club summer swim! I volunteer because I think it's fun, and it helps the meets go by faster. And yes - probably too much drinking at the end of the meet, but I generally like most of the other parents![/quote]

IMO, the more elite a swimmer is the more chill the parents are. It’s the ones bickering over rec level summer swim that need to take a seat.[/quote]

I actually think the more elite swimmer the parents were, the chiller they are with their own swimmers. They know it’s not worth the insanity. [/quote]

I completely agree.[/quote]

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