Who was unreasonable?

[neunundneunzigluftballons]

Parents are sitting on seats within 3 ft of the kids pool in a swimming pool before lessons start. The kids are playing at the side of the pool with their legs in as they are not allowed in before teacher comes. there was a fair bit of general splashing. One 4 year old child was definitely way worse than the rest, his mother told him to stop twice because he was getting the parents wet. Cue a fair few passive aggressive comments from 2 mums sitting beside the pool until one of them shouts at the Mum to sort out her child as he was wetting everyone. Mum says all the children are splashing and it is unfair to pick hers in a very defensive tone but moves him to another part of the pool out of the direct path from women. Cue more louder PA comments from mums about where child's behaviour comes from. Who if anyone was unreasonable.

[YouTheCat]

The PA parents were being twats.

The mother was trying to address the behaviour and all of the kids were splashing anyway.

[emsyj]

The parents sitting within 3ft of the kids pool whilst a load of 4 year olds excited for their lesson are sitting with their feet in the water are BU if they think they're not going to get soaked!

PA comments = unreasonable and rude

[Onebuddhaisnotenough]

Which parent were you ?

[Morgause]

All of them a bit. The mother should only have had to tell the child to stop once, then moved him after the second time - not waited for the 3rd.

All the mothers should have told all the kids not to splash.

[Onesleeptillwembley]

All of them. The parent should have stopped her child but the others should have asked politely and dropped it when she did (eventually) sort it.

[Icelollycraving]

I assume you were the mum who moved their child. The PA mums wbu.

[quoteunquote]

None of the children should be near the pool until the lesson starts.

[RevelsRoulette]

Some fault all round.

The child shouldn't still have been in a position to splash because his mother should have hauled his arse away from the poolside the first time and stood him next to her until the teacher arrived

But loud comments are always annoying, a polite "please stop him from doing that" should have been enough.

Actually, all the kids should have been made to stop.

[Ledkr]

My pet hate is people who moan about getting splashed IN A SWIMMING POOL!

[RevelsRoulette]

Me too, but I don't think they were in it, just sat next to it fully clothed.

If I'm wrong and they were in their bathing costumes moaning about getting wet, they're bonkers

[NicknameIncomplete]

Everyone was being unreasonable.

Who sits next to a pool where kids are splashing?
Who lets their kids splash in the pool when they are not allowed & there are other people around who could get wet?

[picnicbasketcase]

I don't think parents should be allowed right next to the pool during lessons, there should be somewhere further away where the kids won't be distracted by waving at their parents and the parents won't get soaked. But anyway. The PA parents were bloody rude, the splashy child's parent should have made it clear to the child that they had to stop.

[trilogyofjuniper]

The mother of the splashing child is at fault. The child should have stopped splashing when first told and if they didn't the mum should have taken them away from the pool.

It's not ok to allow children to splash spectators.

[Sianilaa]

I can't bear rude PA comments. The other parents were BVU in my opinion.

[Sianilaa]

Oops meant to add that if I was the splashy mum, I'd have told them once to stop splashing and then removed the child from the side of the pool on the second splash. So that mum was being a bit U. But she was attempting to stop it at least.

[Sirzy]

None of them should have been near the water.

The splashing child should have been moved straight away

[Mollywashup]

Are you allowed onto the poolside without the teacher or lifeguards present?

[neunundneunzigluftballons]

The kids are in at the pool because they have older siblings at the previous lesson and they have to wait half an hour for theirs and parents must be in attendance at all times. Parents are all in clothes not bathing suits.

[thegoldenfool]

the mother should have stopped the child splashing, but it is very hard for little children to understand subtle differences in levels of splashing so all of the children by the pool should have stopped/been moved


PA comments very unnessary

[whattodoo]

All at fault.

If the complaining mother was so annoyed, she should have stopped her own child as well as suggesting to the other parents "I think we'd better stop them now, we're all getting soaked!"

The 4yo's mother should have taken him out after the first time she had to speak to him.

Quite honestly, I don't think they should have been splashing in the pool in the first place, if the rule is that they're not allowed in the pool until lesson time.

[olibeansmummy]

Both parties wbu. But I'm really surprised that such little children are allowed by the pool with no teacher!

[Mojavewonderer]

All of them! The kids should have pushed the parents into the pool for being such whining idiots!

[neunundneunzigluftballons]

Oli their parents and 3 teachers are there but at the lesson for the older children in the pool beside the children. It is all a bit tense, up until a few weeks back the younger children were allowed use the pool before their own lesson while they waited. Now they are not and the 4 year olds are bored waiting. The parents for the most part are unimpressed with the change mid term. We have booked ours into a different pool next term where the kids get some time to practice/play before and after lessons.

[WinnieFosterTether]

Everyone was bu. The children shouldn't have been splashing and being bored isn't an excuse. If they can't behave in the pool then they should sit with their parents whilst waiting.

[Disclaimer - I may be biased because my nervous dc used to be reduced to tears by a 'spirited' child who constantly splashed him when they were waiting for their lesson and his dm never intervened beyond a half hearted 'don't' ]

[neunundneunzigluftballons]

Well to be fair none of the kids sit with their parents because for 5 weeks they were allowed in the pool. If the lessons had started out that they had to sit with their parents then they would be used to that routine and I would not have booked the lessons as dd hates the lesson and only likes the swimming bit beforehand and that was how I convinced her to do the lesson. I personally was a little shocked by the attitudes of the women complaining about getting splashed beside the pool. The pool is on a curve and I was nearest the little boy and I did not care. If Zi did care I would have moved to another part of the whole pool area instead of throwing digs at a 4 year old. I thought it was pretty ironic that one of the women's dd was doing a fair bit of splashing too not nearly as bad as the boy but definitely 2nd worst child. Her dd is my dds friend so I just sat their aghast as they complained to the other woman but I did tell the other woman that I thought they were being rediculous and plain nasty after.