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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I volunteer to be a timer when I can get a babysitter (probably every third meet) but when I don’t I have a 4 year old that cannot be unsupervised near a pool.  When my other kid is older, I will volunteer more.  I assume that many of the U8 families also have other little kids.  Their time will come when their kids are older.  [/quote]

Nope. This is my first year without an 8U swimmer and 6th year with swim team. We have always volunteered and then some. Don’t participate in the activity of you cannot commit to the volunteer requirements. Your child care issues are not everyone else’s problem. [/quote]

That's not really fair and the teams should have babysitters as volunteers.  Our pool the parents all look after each other's kids but even if you are volunteering and have a younger swimmer its an issue as someone has to watch that child at the pool while they are waiting to swim.   We left a team where some parents were nasty to the families who did volunteer complaining that our kids were not being properly supervised at meets (we'd put them all in one spot together and parents would rotate but its hard to volunteer and supervise your kid at the meets).  Thankfully the new pool is different and everyone looks after each other's kids so its a non-issue.  You are pretty nasty to complain about people not volunteering when they have legit issues like child care.  It IS everyone's problem and being part of a team is helping each other out.  If one person is volunteering and you are not, step up and watch their kid.[/quote]

Where is the other parent?  Why aren’t they watching the kid?  [/quote]

Or actually do get a sitter or mother’s helper to watch the kid at the pool. [/quote]

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