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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone clue me in on how people make swim practices from 9-10am (or even later) happen with summer camps etc?[/quote]

We get a summer babysitter and miss one week of swim and diving team for a camp. This year it’s soccer. Our swim team ends the 3rd week of July so that leaves one more July week for a different camp. When my kid is old enough for sleepaway camp, they will do second session of camp and miss swim championships, but they’re ok with that.[/quote]

Thanks... So if swim team is only one hour mid day and both parents work, you get a babysitter to drive to swim practice and then deliver to camp late?  Or just a full season babysitter?  I was expecting team practice to be from 7-8 or 8-9am, not in the middle of the day.[/quote]

No, my kid doesn’t go to camp except for a week during swim season. Usually we get a high school senior or college freshman/sophomore. They cover the morning dropoff at the pool, eat lunch with the kids, then get them ready for diving and tennis at the same place. Our swim/tennis club does have an all-day day camp that takes care of getting the kids to swim/dive/tennis, but we don’t need 9-6 care.. The sitter typically handles ~5 hours/day.  Depending on the day, they either drive them to a late-afternoon sport from which we pick the kid up or bring them home. Some nights the babysitter might stay until dinner but usually we finish by 2-3 pm and take over.

My friends who work 2 full-time in-person jobs and have kids in summer sports usually have full-time nannies or au pairs. I don’t know a good way to make sports work with day camp. [/quote]

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