Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Horror would be a completely inappropriate plate or leaving just one kid out completely.

I’m still angry about my paper plate award I received in 1986. So embarrassing.

Relax, Mom.

Parents and swimmers alike have a right to be annoyed at inappropriate paper plates awards. Coaches should know better, but it's often done by team reps who are passive aggressive and are gunning for the swimmer's parents. The family is often gone from the team the next summer (which was the intent). In one case, the kid joined another summer team, started club swim, and ended up becoming a top club swimmer.

Adults who act this way towards kids are disgusting.

Well, to be fair, grandma was talking about something that happened in 1986 - which was a completely different time.

Horror? Get a grip. No, actually, get a life.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Horror would be a completely inappropriate plate or leaving just one kid out completely.

I’m still angry about my paper plate award I received in 1986. So embarrassing.

Relax, Mom.

Parents and swimmers alike have a right to be annoyed at inappropriate paper plates awards. Coaches should know better, but it's often done by team reps who are passive aggressive and are gunning for the swimmer's parents. The family is often gone from the team the next summer (which was the intent). In one case, the kid joined another summer team, started club swim, and ended up becoming a top club swimmer.

Adults who act this way towards kids are disgusting.

Seriously? You think team reps have the time to put together mean paper plate awards just to get at another family. The amount of perceived and/or actual "someone is out to get me (or my kid(s)" drama on summer swim is incredible.

In years past, the team reps approved all paper plate awards and would make the coaches redo them if they were inappropriate.

Anonymous wrote:Our banquets used to last well past midnight because of how long it took to read them all out aloud for the DDs. Glad they did away with that.

What's a "DD"?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We just hang them for all to see and then kids collect them at the end of the night. Two hundred kids on the team it would be a nightmare if we talked about each one.

How many paper plate awards does your team too? Hanging them is a good idea if you give one to each kid. Our pool skipped the paper plate awards, and nobody was told or informed.

Every kid on our team of 200 gets a paper plate.

Huh? All of our kids get a paper plate award.

I'm seriously not sitting through 200+ kids getting paper plate awards! Ours are funny and they're displayed on the wall before kids pick them up so everyone can see.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think they are stupid but younger kids like them. Even the HS swim team does them. Our summer team has the teen coaches do them, mostly during unpaid time, which is wrong.

My daughter is a teen assistant coach and while she loves everything about summer swim, she and her fellow coaches spent hours and hours making paper plate awards for every kid on her team. A truly massive amount of work.

Yep, my son was a volunteer coach and 8+ teenagers spent ten hours the day before the party on these. Unpaid.

Our coaches make very cute individualized paper plates for every swimmer. They are hung up at the banquet for everyone to see, but they aren't handed out individually, that would take forever?!

Kids don't care about this. They had fun all summer. Only Instagram mommies care.

Anonymous wrote:Horror would be a child drowning in the pool while guards were busy making paper plate awards.

Truth. Thanks for injecting some needed perspective into this thread.

Horror would be a child drowning in the pool while guards were busy making paper plate awards.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Horror would be a completely inappropriate plate or leaving just one kid out completely.

I’m still angry about my paper plate award I received in 1986. So embarrassing.

Relax, Mom.

Parents and swimmers alike have a right to be annoyed at inappropriate paper plates awards. Coaches should know better, but it's often done by team reps who are passive aggressive and are gunning for the swimmer's parents. The family is often gone from the team the next summer (which was the intent). In one case, the kid joined another summer team, started club swim, and ended up becoming a top club swimmer.

Adults who act this way towards kids are disgusting.

Seriously? You think team reps have the time to put together mean paper plate awards just to get at another family. The amount of perceived and/or actual "someone is out to get me (or my kid(s)" drama on summer swim is incredible.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Horror would be a completely inappropriate plate or leaving just one kid out completely.

I’m still angry about my paper plate award I received in 1986. So embarrassing.

Relax, Mom.

Parents and swimmers alike have a right to be annoyed at inappropriate paper plates awards. Coaches should know better, but it's often done by team reps who are passive aggressive and are gunning for the swimmer's parents. The family is often gone from the team the next summer (which was the intent). In one case, the kid joined another summer team, started club swim, and ended up becoming a top club swimmer.

Adults who act this way towards kids are disgusting.

Anonymous wrote:We had small group of swimmers made paper plate for coaches. It’s nice but while some got 10+ and others got much less or just 1-2, and wording like “ short” to describe coach’s height, it definitely hurt feelings.

I wonder if we're the same team. Our coaches did a great job on the paper plate awards, which had to be an incredible amount of work, and kept the presentation of them moving. The artwork was really well done, and they were nice or funny. They gave one to each swimmer, and they made one for each coach. And then, after it was finished, a group of 8U and 10U girls passed around the mic and handed out their own handmade paper plate awards to the coaches, but they weren't balanced among the coaches, the messages weren't great (including poking fun at a male coach's height), and it took forever. Maybe their parents thought they were cute, but it was a big chunk of time that would have been better at a practice (or not done at all).

Anonymous wrote:Horror would be a completely inappropriate plate or leaving just one kid out completely.

I’m still angry about my paper plate award I received in 1986. So embarrassing.

Relax, Mom.