I wish our pool would do it that early! So much easier for working parents!

Summer swim is come as you are. We have kids who miss the entire back half of the season, kids who practice once a week, and kids who do two-a-days as if it were club. Everyone is equally welcome, everyone can swim B meets and come to social events, and the team cheers equally loudly for everyone who just plain tries. It's what makes summer swim work. My DCs grind all winter in club with one of the major incentives still being better times for the summer, and they're not so little anymore!

Anonymous wrote:Op here. I don't think morning swim practice works because 1 kid has 1 week needing to take morning bus to camp at 7:45am, 1 sleepaway camp, 1 week meeting at river at 9am for kayaking(we can't make it to be there on time). Is it okay to skip the morning practices once school start? Has anyone done it?

Just being frank, the best swimmers are usually kids that do not go to camp and spend their days at the pool after morning practice, and sometimes also doing afternoon practice. If you can’t make morning practice with conflicts, that is ok on most summer teams, your kid just probably will be middle of the pack.

Anonymous wrote:Op here. I don't think morning swim practice works because 1 kid has 1 week needing to take morning bus to camp at 7:45am, 1 sleepaway camp, 1 week meeting at river at 9am for kayaking(we can't make it to be there on time). Is it okay to skip the morning practices once school startl? Has anyone done it?

I meant once school ends(mid June to early/mid July)

Op here. I don't think morning swim practice works because 1 kid has 1 week needing to take morning bus to camp at 7:45am, 1 sleepaway camp, 1 week meeting at river at 9am for kayaking(we can't make it to be there on time). Is it okay to skip the morning practices once school start? Has anyone done it?

Anonymous wrote:Is it common that summer swim team practice is in the mornings at outdoor pool at 7:15am to 8:15am once school ends? There is no afternoon options for practices once school ends. My kid won't be able to wake up to make it. Isn't it the outdoor pool (even with heated) cold in kid June at 7:15am?

This is common, not all pools have an afternoon practice option and the water will often be frigid early in the season. This is going to tell you whether your kid actually wants to do summer swim. For my kid who loves it, she got up and went to practice and then I would pick her up and take her directly to her camp on the way to work. She didn’t shower because she was usually going to a pool as part of the camp day anyway. She brushed her hair on the way to camp and I did a quick braid when we got there. It was a hectic 5-6 weeks. My other kid was like hard pass, I don’t like summer swim that much.

Anonymous wrote:Is it common that summer swim team practice is in the mornings at outdoor pool at 7:15am to 8:15am once school ends? There is no afternoon options for practices once school ends. My kid won't be able to wake up to make it. Isn't it the outdoor pool (even with heated) cold in kid June at 7:15am?

Put them to bed earlier... They will adjust in a few days to it.

7-8:15 is as good as a working parent is going to get.

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Anonymous wrote:Op here. What time do you drop off your kids at summer day camp? I assume that kids need to take a shower and rinse off chloride after the swim. Omg... I can't believe that outdoor pool opens as early as 4:30am. Isn't it dark outside?

Mine have had college sitters every summer except one. That one summer we did camps, they just showed up 30 min late. No one cared.

NP but what was your kids’ schedule with college sitter? Going to have one this summer

Sitter met me at the pool when I dropped kids off and stayed until the 2nd one finished. She would bring them home after, get them fed and then would do an activity outside of the house for a bit (library, playground, bowling or movie if it was raining). Then they would come back to the house for lunch and either do something at home (arts and crafts, outdoor play, bike ride, etc) or go back to the pool for the afternoon. I work from home so I encouraged them to be out and about whenever possible. My kids loved having the sitter and much preferred it to being gone all day at structured camps.