To wish I had never said "I promise we will go swimming at the weekend"

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Why, oh why did those fucking words come out of my mouth? Why? I hate swimming.

I can swim. It is OK. But oh the faff. But I promised.

Off to get stuff in a bag.

I counted the days til DS2 was 8 and all I had to do was watch from the cafe.

Faff - so much faff. Damp faff at that.
Enjoy!

The swimming is the least worst bit. It's the changing rooms afterwards bit that made me want to cry.

Oh well, at least if you go now you can get it over with & wont have the nagging all day :)

YY and you can bask in the glory all afternoon that you got up, went out and did it.

Dd's a bloody mermaid it seems.
I hate getting wet.
I see it as proving to myself I'm a better mum than I think

To early before its busy and promise yourself a treat for after :)

Go early

Would it make you feel any better if I said I am going to clean all the outside furniture so it can be put away for the winter (I'm not uber good, it's just too windy here to leave out & too dirty to put away without being washed down!!), then clean the bathrooms, then spend the afternoon with distant family who are visiting the area I'd swap!

Recently I have been taking TWO three year olds swimming once a week on my own. Theoretically they can both dress themselves. Not when they're damp, it would appear.

(awaits medal)

I like swimming, I hate having to shave my legs.

I hate getting changed and I hate having to put shoes and socks on and wet hair.

Much prefer swimming in summer when legs have to be shaved, no socks and you dry quick

I love swimming! We go every Sunday and often on Saturdays as well - but I have a sore throat and ear today so we can't really go and ds is not happy. Santa is arriving at Dobbies today will go and sit in the coffee shop see him instead.

It's less the swimming itself than all the Immac stinking prep!

Glad to hear I am not the only one who hates the de-hair prep bit of swimming.
Especially as my pubes now reach my knees.
Seriously thinking of getting one of those modesty swimming costumes.

I hate the getting changed and the wetness on the floor, and the cubicles with hair or whatever in them. And then the swimming. Getting cold, but the DC want to stay in. Not being able to do my own laps or strokes or whatever because the DC want me to play that Mr Wolf game thing.

I'd swap going swimming for sitting around at parent toddler club with lots of people I didn't know. That was purgatory for me as I don't like big gatherings of people. Hated toddler clubs and standing in the playground waiting for DD to come out.

Thank goodness we are mostly past needing to be in group situations now my daughter is at senior school.

Yanbu - swimming is boring and wet, very very wet.

Makes sure you don't make the same mistake again though.

Never promise. If you decide you can face it, make it a spur of the moment thing and just announce you are all going. The children will think you are wonderful for springing such a great surprise on them and you never have to go when you don't want to. Win-win

Be grateful you have a pool you can go to. Our local one got shut down by the council, then knocked down!

We have the hell that is Butlins we can go to, but we either have to pay a fortune, or beg someone who works there to get us free passes, so don't go often!

When dd was very little and I had promised swimming and didnt feel up to it I would pretend to phone the pool and ask for opening times and then act all "oh really? Oh thats a shame...okay another day then" ... and tell dd they'd had some sort of problem and were shut!

Evil yes.

I would always take her the next day or sometime very soon to make up for it.

I really hate going swimming. Its cold and horrid!

Lol@fairylea, I thought I was the only one who did that!
I love swimming, but swimming with kids is seventy shades of shite. Unless it's just the one kid, which is often bearable and sometimes fun.

What's all this with the pubes angst? If you want to shave, shave- but FGS you don't have to! It's not a legal obligation! Do you think all the other swimmers will actually collapse and die if they spot a short'n'curly poking out of your swimsuit crotch??

(wanders off muttering about 100 years of Womens' Lib having achieved nothing)

For medical reasons (epilepsy) I am unable to go swimming. Too scared of not being spotted by the lifeguards if I started drowning. Probably the only upside of this horrible condition. Means the closest I have ever had to swimming with DS is taking him to swimming lessons where I watched from the sides. He has now given up thank god

The best thing happened in the end. DH looked at me limping (genuine - had plaster cast removed last week from broken foot) whilst getting the bag ready and told me to not be an idiot and he took them. He hates swimming even more than I do.

I luff him. I made cauliflower cheese to go with lunch and an apple and marzipan. As payment for not having to go

Yay for your dh, he is great!