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[quote=Anonymous]Kids were miserable. No doubt about it. Even if the water was warmer, those kids were joining those 'poor adults' the moment they were out of the water and science would agree with me that the kids standing next to those adults were feeling more of the pain.

I think we put a lot of emphasis on sticking with it, team spirit and the like... I feel teaching my kid that if they are close to throwing up, lesson learned, bring a thermometer to test it yourself, and don't worry about the wrongfully placed shame of standing up for your body-- especially when adults don't.

True, a lot of work goes into it. But the consideration primo has to be why we are all there at early hours in the first place: the kids. Financial (concessions) and man hours are real losses, but in the face of miserable kids-- or kids who are putting on a brave face and were glad they did it which doesn't matter sense if the kids literally cannot perform to the point of doing really, REALLY fake math to pretend the meet happened (combining scores)... nope. And yes, that math was to sort out who didn't want to let their parents down, who didn't want to quit when in any other situation their parents will expect them to make the wiser choice than to go along with something that is not okay...

I scratched on our time trials this morning. I'm just not okay with feeding into further confusing my kids about common sense things they feel-- it's too cold, Mom. Yes, it really is. Let's pile in the parents' bed and have a lazy morning of stories and giggles. [/quote]

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