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Are you new to PGPool? That is the culture there and it is very unlikely to change. We all have a job there and that is what makes it a co-op (shared accountability). It sounds like you spend your time policing the baby pool. I do a lot with plastic city and the sand now, but I was baby pool for a few years, too. We all have our places on the grounds that we frequent, just like our usual spots that we sit in and times that we go there.
Consider posting a message on the listserve reminding people to keep the big kids out of the baby pool. I'm sure you know if you have been there for any number of years that it is usually this time of year that someone does that.  Plus, you know to stay out of the baby pool during adult swim, right? That is the only time the bigger kids (6-7 yr olds) go in there.[/quote]

No, I am not new to PG pool, though that may be relative. This is our fifth year of membership. What makes PG Pool a "coop" is the opportunity to work off 100 bucks of your membership fee, or whatever it is. I note I don't get coop hours for babysitting anybody's kids.

I actually don't mind weighing in and doing my part to keep things on even keel. However, my observation is that many of the parents are of the extreme free range persuasion. I'm amazed that some parents will send their 4 year olds to the toddler pool unaccompanied, though it's against the rules and also against good sense. It happens constantly. What's funny is with the membership bubble last year, people groused about the new members, but I actually think it's the rank and file older members who are so lax. This whole "it's a coop, someone else will be watching" attitude is really, really irritating. I'm not the only person who thinks it, either. There is a contingent of newer members who are there for the pool but endure the "no limits / no boundaries / my kid is just "spirited" parents" with gritted teeth. It's not that we are hyper protective, it's that we're sick of watching your kids, we are sick of not having space in the TODDLER pool for our TODDLERS to walk around without getting tackled by a 7 year old. And no, I'm not getting out of the pool during adult swim. That's the kind of offensive, entitled mentality that turns me off so much about an otherwise awesome pool.  
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