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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For every swim parent who pores over psych sheets, there are an equal number of parents who drop off and don’t attend the meets, parents who alway manage to miss their kids’ events, parents who mean well but take a video of the wrong kid (this has been me more than once), and parents who watch their kids and that’s it. Now that my kids are older and not the youngest age group anymore, I try to volunteer at one session per meet. It makes the time pass quickly and I’m kind of making up for the times when I couldn’t volunteer as much due to having a toddler around, etc. [/quote]

Going to a meet this past weekend made me realize how nice it can be to volunteer. The first day, we didn’t and wound up sitting in cramped, uncomfortable bleachers for 2.5 hours. My back and legs both hurt afterward. I didn’t want to volunteer since my kid was supposed to finish with 1.5 hours left in the session. The second day my kid had an event at the beginning and end so I volunteered as a timer. It was so much nicer. The only downside was I couldn’t videotape them but I have enough videos. [/quote]

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