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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The swim parents at our pool like to think they’re laid back and chill but they aren’t.  The amount of screaming while
their  kids are swimming at meets is terrifying.  The kids are underwater— they can’t hear you and I don’t think they want to hear you either.  And the amount of time and volunteering the team expects from parents is also not laid-back.  Finally, the swim families are so clique-ish.  The parents don’t interact with non swim-team families, the kids think the pool belongs to them and not all the families.  Finally,  the families of top swimmers self-segregate from even the rest of the swim team families![/quote]

It's funny... i was just chatting to someone about this very thing this morning. From a casual observation, swim meets can look like a lot of crazy people cheering and yelling (which people could also interpret as screaming). But that's part of the atmosphere to cheer kids on to do their best - it's all fun and the parents and kids on most teams do actually get along. I am not a long-time swim parent, so I find this very interesting.... I am a long-time soccer parent, and the screaming and yelling there is more sustained and more intense and much different than the 30 seconds of swim cheering for each kid. I'll take the swim atmosphere any day over travel soccer.[/quote]

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