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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Me too OP! I'm just not into the pool. I enjoyed it as a child, and I'm sure I will get flamed or whatever but hanging out in the sun for hours at a time is different now. There are plenty of other things to do in the summer. Now admittedly, we work and our kids are in daycare, but we just got a nanny and it's possible that next summer the pool will be a good idea for them. So I may join, but I don't think it's an absolute. I do want my kids to learn how to swim though, but was thinking they would do that at lessons through the county rec centers, the Y, camps etc. [/quote]

What do you do on the weekends with your kids?[/quote]

Nobody seems to really have answered that question. Someone said they go to museums and stuff, but every weekend that seems like a lot of effort! Someone else said they play outside in the heat, but I can't imagine doing that for long in a typical DC summer either (this summer is an exception). I wonder if many of the anti-pool posters have either full-time daycare and/or very young children who can be easily occupied in the house for long periods of time.  Mine are 4 and 7 and honestly if we didn't have the pool I don't know what we would do all summer![/quote]

I can see not belonging when you have kids who take that long, 2 - 3 hour afternoon nap, but once they're done napping, I can't see how to fill that time well.[/quote]

How do you fill it in the winter when the pool is closed?  Couldn't you do many of those same things on summer weekends when the weather is ultra-hot?[/quote] It's a lot more work when the pool is closed.[/quote]

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