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Badly Behaved Parents

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RainCloud · 27/07/2022 13:40

I swim at a pool that is supposed to be adults only from 7 - 10 pm each night. It opens at 7am, so the kids have 12 hours to swim between 7am and 7pm each day.

So many parents don't think the rule should apply to their kid. Last night I witnessed a member of staff asking a parent to take their child out of the pool because it was 7:15 and the dad just shrugged, said no and then added "some rules are there to be broken".

Last week I mother started shouting at a member of staff who asked them to leave because her daughter was doing swimming training. Swimming training seemed to be swimming round in circles, across 3 lanes and stopping 3 adults from swimming.

Parents of mumsnet, do you think the rules don't apply to your children?

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Hotenoughtoburnasausage · 27/07/2022 13:47

I have dc. Many. I love things with No Dc Rules.

If I have not taken mine to x place I bloody well don't want to see /hear anyone else's dc either!

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RainCloud · 27/07/2022 14:10

I have a DD too. I take her swimming before 7, if she wants to go. I go by myself, after 7, if she is at her dad's and I don't want to put up with other people's kids either.

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RainCloud · 27/07/2022 17:19

Assuming I'm being unreasonable by the lack of responses 😂

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Amazongirl9 · 27/07/2022 17:21

No you aren't being unreasonable. It's entitled twattery at it's finest.

RedWingBoots · 27/07/2022 17:23

Rules apply to my DD.

YellowPlumbob · 27/07/2022 17:24

Single parent, 3DC.

My child free time means all children. Not just my own. Every child on the planet.

StRaphael · 27/07/2022 17:25

There are CF in all walks of life. Instead of posting a goady comment on MN I’d like to hear if you followed up with the swimming pool and if it was addressed with the parent at the time. It seems they are wholly inadequate to apply said rules which is the problem here.

BeanieTeen · 27/07/2022 17:27

YANBU. Some people are just entitled. They then teach their children to also be entitled. But the main reason for that is that they get away with it - I think blatantly disrespecting the rules and ignoring staff when they try to implement them for the sake of other swimmers should be worthy of a pool ban. Presumably they do know how to implement rules at the pool, or do they allow dangerous head first jumping into the shallow side too? If you can stop that kind of behaviour you can also stop the other. Pool management needs to step up.

SolasAnla · 27/07/2022 17:31

Suggest that the pool place a notice all over.

Late Swimming fee
For children in the pool after 19:00
£100 per hr or part there of.
Please pay at the front desk before entering the pool area.

No sir, I am not asking you to remove your little darling, I just need cash or your credit card paymemt

🤷🏼‍♀️

Georgeskitchen · 27/07/2022 17:38

And people wonder why some children's behaviour is so awful!!

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RainCloud · 27/07/2022 17:47

StRaphael · 27/07/2022 17:25

There are CF in all walks of life. Instead of posting a goady comment on MN I’d like to hear if you followed up with the swimming pool and if it was addressed with the parent at the time. It seems they are wholly inadequate to apply said rules which is the problem here.

The problem is parents thinking the rules only apply to other people's children.

Are you one of them 😂

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dannydyerismydad · 27/07/2022 18:32

The pool I swim at has 2 Children's slots - 9-11am and 2-4pm.

I make sure my child is out of the pool at bang on 10:59. It's a lovely pool where staff can't do enough to make you feel welcome. I don't want to ruin theirs or anyone else's day.

My child is generally better behaved than the adult guests, but I'm a rule follower.

Soubriquet · 27/07/2022 18:35

Problem is, there’s no consequence.

The life guard can’t pull the father and child out.
Cant force them to make additional payment.

All they can do is ask. If the parent refuses, what then? Police aren’t going to come out for this

TeapotTitties · 27/07/2022 18:38

Parents of mumsnet, do you think the rules don't apply to your children?

Eh? No, do you?

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RainCloud · 27/07/2022 18:43

Soubriquet · 27/07/2022 18:35

Problem is, there’s no consequence.

The life guard can’t pull the father and child out.
Cant force them to make additional payment.

All they can do is ask. If the parent refuses, what then? Police aren’t going to come out for this

I know.

Fuck the older people who like to swim in a child free zone because they don't like the water being churned up or being jumped on.

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RainCloud · 27/07/2022 18:46

TeapotTitties · 27/07/2022 18:38

Parents of mumsnet, do you think the rules don't apply to your children?

Eh? No, do you?

No but a lot of parents seem to.

I'm waiting for someone to come along and explain why they don't think the rules apply to their kids.

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Rojjahri · 27/07/2022 18:48

Not being unreasonable - nothing worse than trying to get a decent, long, 5k swim in after work only to keep having to dodge other people's small grot bags who swim in front of you.

MintyCedricRidesAgain · 27/07/2022 19:08

This is precisely why I rarely go swimming, even though I love it.

I'm extremely short-sighted to need to swim with my contact lenses in which is entirely manageable with adult swimmers around,not so much with kids behaving erratically and splashing about.

Unfortunately our local pool only has about 2 short sessions a week for adults at ridiculous times so I don't bother.

WingingItSince1973 · 27/07/2022 19:13

The pool I belong to has adults 6-10 which is a pain for my dd taking her ds as she finishes work at 530 so no way she can take him. Fortunately I take him anyway but I wish they had same times as yours. But I would be cheesed off if parents broke the rules as its not a huge pool and kids are usually just in there playing and it's hard to swim when pool full of kids. I hate entitled parents. I've had 3 dds and 1 dgs but I still love adult only places.

WonderingWanda · 27/07/2022 19:39

I'm surprised, I thought all the idiots took their kids to the supermarket at bedtime so I could run the gauntlet round them, listen to them scream and get barged into by toddlers pushing trollies or kids on those wheelie trainers. I presume they do it in case I'm missing the joyous company of my own dc who stupidly I'd left sleeping at home with dh?

You are not being unreasonable.

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RainCloud · 27/07/2022 19:44

WonderingWanda · 27/07/2022 19:39

I'm surprised, I thought all the idiots took their kids to the supermarket at bedtime so I could run the gauntlet round them, listen to them scream and get barged into by toddlers pushing trollies or kids on those wheelie trainers. I presume they do it in case I'm missing the joyous company of my own dc who stupidly I'd left sleeping at home with dh?

You are not being unreasonable.

I agree that I'm in the right 😂.

Just wondering where the parents of the children who think it's ok for their kids to swim during adult only times are... They must have their reasons.

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RainCloud · 27/07/2022 19:46

WingingItSince1973 · 27/07/2022 19:13

The pool I belong to has adults 6-10 which is a pain for my dd taking her ds as she finishes work at 530 so no way she can take him. Fortunately I take him anyway but I wish they had same times as yours. But I would be cheesed off if parents broke the rules as its not a huge pool and kids are usually just in there playing and it's hard to swim when pool full of kids. I hate entitled parents. I've had 3 dds and 1 dgs but I still love adult only places.

I think 7-10 is reasonable. If I get there a bit early, I just go and sit in the sauna until 7. The sauna is a child free zone all the time.

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PuttingDownRoots · 27/07/2022 19:50

I'm jealous... my local pool has ONE family session a week that isn't in school time. And that's 12-1.30 on a Sunday. Early mornings and evenings is adult lane swim. After school is lessons.

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RainCloud · 28/07/2022 19:27

PuttingDownRoots · 27/07/2022 19:50

I'm jealous... my local pool has ONE family session a week that isn't in school time. And that's 12-1.30 on a Sunday. Early mornings and evenings is adult lane swim. After school is lessons.

I'm all for kids being allowed in but there does need to be some adult only time too.

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