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AIBU?

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if you are paying for swimming lessons, you should swim

172 replies

talkiinpeace · 04/12/2015 21:20

You are coughing up good cash to pay for your kids to be strong and confident in the water

so why do you sit at the side, bone dry, playing on your phone

Use that 20 minutes to burn a few calories and make it abundantly clear to your kids that their lessons are worth something
and plough half a mile

all else is hypocricy

OP posts:
IamSantaClaus · 07/12/2015 08:23

Dd is starting ballet in September . I'm off to get a tutu so I can join in Hmm

Anotherusername1 · 07/12/2015 09:24

?

Kids lessons are for kids. I can imagine the reaction if I tried to get into the water with the kids in my son's lesson!!!

StepAwayFromTheEcclesCakes · 07/12/2015 09:55

judgey much Hmm

pourmeanotherglass · 07/12/2015 20:27

May work if you go to a big leisure centre with multiple pools, but mine had lessons in a little local pool, with 2 or 3 different groups of kids having lessons at the same time, and no-one else allowed in the pool. Parents were supposed to stay on site, so mostly used to chat/read/muck about on their phone. Wasn't my favourite hour of the week, I'm glad they have both finished lessons now. And there is NO WAY I'm intending to practice my cartwheels while the little one is at gymnastics, sorry, that is her hobby not mine.

tilliebob · 07/12/2015 20:30

Parents/the general public aren't allowed to swim whilst lessons are in progress.

I pay for DS to get a lesson, not for me to swim too.

When I am looking down on him, he can see how he's doing - whereas actually in the pool, I can't.

And who are you to lecture me anyway OP? Hmm

ovenchips · 07/12/2015 20:32

CandyCoco I agree! Though would also add the word goady to the list.

What a silly billy post.

ghostyslovesheep · 07/12/2015 20:38

I do purely because I know it annoys people - pretty much the same reason you posted this ...hth ... :)

MrsMook · 07/12/2015 21:02

I thought of this thread as I sat marking assessments during Ds's swimming lesson this evening.

My phone was unavailable. It's got to the annoying stage of life where it randomly dies at inconvienienced moments. Shame, as swimming time is when I tend to remember to log in and view his (lack of) progress.

Plornish · 08/12/2015 05:16

It's a children-only sports centre (this is the U.S.). They have a gift shop, and a cafeteria with several shelves of books to read.

One of the other mums and I have become good friends. We had lunch together a few weeks ago...

MrsTerryPratchett · 08/12/2015 05:32

I'm happy to have a 'swim off' to prove that I can and do swim. Not bloody getting in when DD does, though. Pool's full of urine when the kids' lessons are in.

TalkinPeace · 08/12/2015 08:50

Glad you are all pleased to see that I admitted I was AIBU (yes the other spelling was still me)
and I know I'm lucky to not have to swim in the same pool as the kiddies.
Better go top up my tan this morning Smile

manandbeast · 08/12/2015 09:02
Biscuit
SmellsLikeMiddleAgeSpirit · 08/12/2015 09:16

DD (5) does ballet and gymnastics. Imagine a fat, middle-aged woman (i.e. me) wobbling randomly around the room in pale pink lycra as they were trying to learn.
It would make the little ones cry.

TalkinPeace · 08/12/2015 12:50

Swimming is a skill that might save your life.
Its essential that kids get the chance to learn
and that parents reinforce that its important to learn and be safe

ballet / riding / tennis / music
are rather less essential in an emergency

PS I got rained on while swimming Grin

RiverTam · 08/12/2015 13:36

What's your point? People sre taking their DC to swimming lessons. And very likely going swimming with them as well. But because the parent isn't swimming at the same time as the child having their lesson - well, what? What is so bad about that? I'm struggling to understand.

SmellsLikeMiddleAgeSpirit · 08/12/2015 13:54

What Tam said.

Wouldn't it be better, then, to complain about those who AREN'T taking their DC to swimming lessons?

derxa · 08/12/2015 13:59

I'm sorry. This thread is hilarious Grin All the images of mummies thrashing about in tutus and bouldering... and the fact that there are so many outraged replies.

Thurlow · 08/12/2015 14:02

Yeah, I'm fine.

I'll just look the other way when I walk past the judgemental parents who can't for the life of them imagine that someone else's life might be slightly different from theirs.

and remember that most parents are not like them (thankfully)

willconcern · 08/12/2015 14:07

I go running 2-3 times a week, spin class 2-3 times a week and yoga. My kids know all of this. I exercise plenty. I know how to swim, I don't need lessons. However, I would like 20 minutes to watch them, sit in peace and have a coffee.

Honestly OP, you come across as really objectionable in this post.

DrDreReturns · 08/12/2015 14:09

What are you on about? I can't go in the pool with my kids when they have swimming lessons as the pool is only used for lessons at that time. It's not practical to leave them so I sit next to the pool and read my book / dabble on my smart phone. Naughty me.
Besides having parents in the pool would be a distraction when the instructor is trying to tell the kids something imo.

Aliiiii · 08/12/2015 20:48

Blimey!
You're judging people without knowing anything about them
I cannot swim and am petrified of the water
It takes a massive effort to actually sit near the pool
I did not want my DS having my issues
Get over yourself

SarahSavesTheDay · 08/12/2015 20:55

Is it OK if I am upstairs on the treadmill watching Real Housewives while my kids are in their swimming lessons?

What if you're exercising only because you want to be a yummy mummy, not because you care about setting a good example for your children?

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