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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know that the people who make this work at my pool...with kids your ages...are simply not watching their children closely.  [b]You are a good mom and your exhaustion proves this[/b].[/quote]

This.[/quote]

This actually kind of made me tear up haha.  I'm not even OP.[/quote]

Am I the only who finds this horrifying? I understand there is some specific context here but isn't this everything that's wrong with modern expectations of motherhood? Exhaustion proves that you're a good mother?[/quote]

Np.  I don’t think you can divorce the statement from the context.  Op has a 5 mo and a 4 yo in addition to her older child.  Even if the older one can swim independently, she has two kids who can’t, one of whom pretty much needs to be held the entire time unless he’s napping in the stroller.  At these ages, adequate supervision while swimming does mean constant active supervision, which is tiring.   It if you do it right at these ages, once the younger kids have reached the age where they can swim independently, your reward for all of that work earlier is that you get to be a book by the side of the pool mom, which is not tiring.[/quote]

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