They really didn't need to be right on top of him...

[NoWayNoHow]

DS had swimming lesson today, in a virtually empty pool. Throughout his entire lesson, there were two mums who insisted on swimming with their DC right on top of DS.

Mum 1 keep swimming with her DD and their noodles directly in the path of DS and his teacher, causing him on a number of occasions to stop dead and wait for them to get out the way.

Mum 2 kept walking her toddler around the edge of the pool to jump in, but only did it where DS was.

Bearing in mind that there was an ENTIRE empty pool (and its edges), AIBU to expect them not to be quite so disruptive? DS was really distracted and it's not like these lessons are cheap!

Btw, it's a learner pool so it's all one depth, so it wasn't even like they has to be in one area for the DCs to cope.

Were they having lessons as well?

Can the teacher/pool people not rope off a lane for him?

People are contrary. On holiday there were two huge pools. Dh and dd would head down early to do lengths before anyone else arrived. Twice a opulent of people turned up just as they were finished and bobbed out into the bit of the pool where they were doing lengths.
It was so bloody small minded.

Well YANBU. A lot of people lack decent swimming pool ettiquette.

But couldnt DS and his teacher have moved?

not opulent. A couple of people.

YANBU

bloody irritating this kind of thing isn't it? Is it worth saying anything to the teacher about how it's a shame he was a bit distracted, do they ever rope a little area off?

I think the teacher should have pulled them up on it when they were all in the pool.

What did they say when you asked them to stop doing it?

Well either they didn't realise (most likely)
or they thought their dc were swimming genii and were waiting for the teacher to say "Goodness, that's the most talented child (and beautiful mother) I've seen in a long time. Obviously I'll be happy to teach them for free"

Ha ha, yes DeWe they definitely sound like the latter

In answer to your questions:

1. No, the others weren't doing lessons
2. I have seen them rope off the pool before, but normally for the group lessons. They probably thought (clearly wrongly!) that they wouldn't need to cordon off for just one lesson
3. DS and teacher were at the edge of the pool doing widths, so not in the middle in everyone's way
4. The spectator area isn't right next to the pool, so I wasn't really in a location to be able to say anything

Think I will chat with teacher if it happens again next week.

DeWe I did actually think that at the time - there was a lot of "good kicking, sweetheart" and "what a big jump that was" etc!

"good staying afloat, sweetheart"

"well done for only peeing in the pool twice, Mummy is very pleased"