to not want to go swimming?

[Newmummytobe79]

My DH thinks I'm odd but my friend feels exactly the same way as me - so who is being unreasonable?

SIL takes her children swimming quite often - which is why DH thinks I'm odd.

But ...

I hate swimming baths in the UK. I hate being so undressed in public, I hate getting my hair wet, I hate the way your socks get wet when you're nearly dressed, I hate being cold when you come out of the baths, I hate the memories of used plasters and lumpy talc on the floor of the school baths etc etc etc.

I love swimming abroad. I like jumping into a cold pool on a scorching day, I like the fact I have a tan and look a bit better near on undresssed, I like the way the sun dries me off in minutes etc etc etc

I'm a good swimmer. My parents took me to lessons when I was younger and I swam with school. My sibling swam for the county. My parents never actually took us into a pool in the UK (that I can remember) but made sure we could swim well from a young age and we were very lucky to enjoy yearly holidays abroad where we all splashed around in the pool and the sea together. I don't feel emotionally unstable because we never went swimming as a family in the UK

Therefore am I denying my child anything by not taking them swimming in the UK? My DH can happily take DC when old enough and I will enrol DC for swimming lessons from an early age.

I am more than happy to stand on football pitches in the rain, watch endless ballet shows, colour in, paint, bake etc etc ... just please don't make me go swimming!

So who is being unreasonable here?

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Your minge

squeaky - they do treat the sewage now, they didn't when I was growing up, I remember seeing floaters bobbing past. Still rather go in there than the swimming pool.

My children are going swimming tomorrow. Their father is taking them. I am staying at home to do marking. See, I'd even rather do marking than go swimming.

YANBU! I feel exactly the same way as you. My girls go swimming every saturday and i watch from the side with a cup of tea and a slice of cake! The only time i break this rule in the u.k is at Centerparcs - they have haystack dryers and i can wear flip flops and a sarong/shorts the whole time! Abroad i love swimming and am always the first one in the pool.

I hate swimming too! It's not the being in the pool bit so much as the feel of walking barefoot across the cold, wet tiles. Yuk, yuk, yuk! At my worst, I will actually whimper along with every step I take and I ignore all strange looks on the basis that anyone who isn't bothered by it is even weirder than I am!
It's not quite as bad if I remember to take flip flops and wear them as near as possible to the pool edge.
I wouldn't say DS is an excellent swimmer, but he enjoys it and is very confident. DH has taken him fairly regularly since he was a baby and he's been having swimming lessons since he was at Nursery. Now that he's 9, I don't even accompany him into the changing rooms, as I got freaked outfed up of seeing people go through the bins, if the horrible over-shoes had run out of the dispensers. Once again, yuk, yuk, yuk!

I hate swimming pools with a passion.....................Also have a terrible fear of pool drains !

I have only taken DS to an indoor pool once and I dont think we will go again. We use an outdoor pool and it suits us much more.

Mine love swimming! I loved swimming. It tires them out, it gives them a good 40 mins of cardio.
Its a whole different world swimming, so much fun.

I think they are missing on on the most amazing freedom the water bring, plus the health benefits.

Find a nice pool, they do exsist.