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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I understand parents hanging out together because their kids swim year round together. Mine don’t but are both A meet swimmers, I hang out with parents whose kids go to school with mine.

What has bothered me is that the current set of older kids swim their races and that’s it. There is no more mentorship etc and the club swimmers definitely only hang together. I had a kid on an all star relay who felt very isolated.

Our team has lost a bit of the team/fun feeling lately and for kids like mine who are good swimmers but it’s not their main sport, this will probably be their last year. [/quote]

I think this portrays pretty much what's happening in most of summer swim teams. But parents sometimes forget that older kids you referred to here are still very young kids themselves. 18 being the oldest and lots of 15, 16s. Of course they are older kids compared to kids in the minis, but you know kids are still kids and we tend to expect them to be a little bit too mature. Our team's older kids regularly help out younger kids with their training. Older kids can earn their service hours doing this and it definitely helps team bonding between them too. Are older kids in your club never doing this? Think about implementing it if your club doesn't do this. [/quote]

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