To not like the school taking the kids swimming this time of year?

[CherrySkull]

Yes i know i am, but its like.. one of those ingrained things i learned on my mothers knee

Don't go out with wet hair when its cold!

It's like there is a constant shouting match going on in my head between Sensible Cherry and Old Wives Tale loving Grandma!

Every time DD (7) mentions she's got swimming class tomorrow, its like Old Grandma suddenly sits up and goes "she shouldn't be out with wet hair in this cold, she'll get sick, they shouldn't be taking the little kids outside in this cold straight from a hot swimming pool when they never dry themselves properly and are still damp with wet hair!" and then Sensible Cherry tells her to sit down and shut up, but she carries on grumbling ominously in the background.

Anyone else have those kind of inner wars with themselves? Or am i just nuts? shush

The first year I lived in Germany I was just over the road from a swimming pool so I used to go and swim and come back with wet hair. My flatmates were appalled and used to always tell me I'd get a cold. I didn't. Sometimes I even came back with frozen hair if it was particularly cold.

If you get really cold you may get a chill but I think that's being out in damp cold for a long time. Just walking around with wet (or frozen) hair for a short time won't give you a cold.

Some pools insist on caps for hygiene reasons. I don't know why your hair ir considered ot be less hygienic than your skin but anyway.

But caps make you more aerodynamic in the water so you can swim more easily. And keep your hair out of your eyes. They don't keep your hair completely dry though, some water does slip in underneath. Either that or I just don't put mine on properly.

I grew up in Sweden and we still went swimming in winter. We were fine.

It builds character! (especially if you're Calvin's Dad)

Thanks @GreenTureen at least you got the humour in my post, i think some people have answered the title rather than the question in the actual post itself

For the people who ask, they go by coach or they wouldn't get back to school on time as the pool is the other end of town, but it can't park AT the pool, which is on another schools grounds, so there is still a 10 minute walk from where it parks to the pool itself.

And to re-iterate. I know its not going to hurt her, i just find it amusing that some things we're taught/bought up with, stay with you, even when you know they're not true!

Basic Science 101 - you do not catch a cold from being cold.

Bet half the kids are refusing to wear their coats anyway.

And it may be a joke but as you see plenty still believe it. Next up - menstruation stops in water..

Really big fat wooly hat for the walk back.
My daughter is a fish but would always come back with her jumper/coat/vest soaking.
The wooly hat thing is great - it absorbs the water and keeps their heads warm too. She was wearing my brother in laws ski hat from the 80s.
on the cusp of uber trendy/awful. very practical.

Well it was just a thought

I know that wet hair does not cause colds etc.

I never dry my own hair and go out with wet hair all the time.

It still feels ' wrong' to let them go out with wet hair and as if I'm a terrible mother for doing so.

It makes no sense.

Wet hair does feel cold on your head though so it's not completely bonkers ( just not virus inducing).

Personally I hate the fact that DD can't wash her hair afterwards and will spend all day with swimming pool water in her hair and the sticky straw like mess it will be later.

Not enough to suggest to a teacher trying to get a class load if kids back on a bus to school that my daughter should be allowed adequate time to shower though...

I'm a TA, and finished my swimming slot just before Christmas.
We had a twenty minute walk back which certainly warmed us up!
As PP have said, teach them to dry themselves properly (including their hair), and make sure they can dress themselves quickly, and pack their bag by themselves.

These are the important things believe me.
The special snowflake who can't dress themselves by seven years old, soon find themselves in a pickle, and with a cross teacher.
Add a hat, and they'll be fine. Honestly.
The children absolutely love swimming, it's the highlight of their week.
Be positive, and the DC will follow.

Can't remember last time I went to a pool that didn't have hair dryers. Obv. not practical for school lessons, but fine for private parties to use.

My swimming cap would be rubbish at identifying me floundering under the water; it's pale turquoise!

A tangent on the theme of wet hair... years ago we were walking in the mist on a cold winter's day. My friend began to feel cold so went to put his hat on and discovered that as it was all spiked up, the mist had clung to it and frozen, and couldn't get the hat on. He didn't get a cold

My cap is bright pink, spot me a mile off.

My sinuses swell up if my head is frozen wet cold. Cap in pool & afterwards is good enough for me, though, to walk home afterwards and avoid sinus swell (I don't use the dryers).

Hats to make you easier to spot if you start drowning?

Well in 30 years of swimming and lifeguarding i have never heard that one before.

If that were the case hats would be mandatory in every pool for every activity, especially for babies and toddlers.

ime if a pool insists on hats it's because their filters are delicate and hair caught up will crash the whole thing.

Bright hats are good if you're lane sharing (very busy lanes) and need to watch out for each other. Among my many grudges against the Frog (breast stroke) is how invisible it can make swimmers.

My daughter is asthmatic and was advised to take up swimming to help her.
Swimming caps are for the filters and for streamlining once you are racing competitively. Caps do not keep your hair dry.
My DD swims several mornings a week at 6.00am. She dries her hair as best she can with a twirl and then puts on a bobbly hat - until I'm out of sight I expect.

I live in a cold country - the swimming pool is only open in the winter (no point having it open in the summer as everyone just swims in the lake) so that's when we all go swimming, including the school children. Frozen hair is quite fun really, snapping it.

I use to get the kids out of swimming lessons on winter, then a friend mention that she would never learn! They hair still wet with the caps. Swimming or not they will catch a cold in winter anyway!

you are only bu if a black cat crossed their path, they had to walk under a ladder and they didn't say good morning to a passing magpie :D

Yes to the hat. Also a second towel for drying hair.

My mum has bought me so far this year three coats and a fleecy wrap because apparently'I'll catch my death of cold'.
I have explained that a) I am 47 and old enough to purchase such items myself and b) colds are caused by viruses.
No doubt there will be more coat offerings in the coming weeks..doubly so if it snows. (and I do actually have coats.) sensible Cherry...listen to your inner sensible voice. Schools would not be allowed to do such hazardous things as swimming lessons and walking outside unless it had been risk assessed a bazillion times and found to be completely ok😀

Cant wait for my kid to get free school swimming lessons,as we can't afford it...sure as hell I won't be complaining over wet hair,I will be bloody greatful that's for sure

I remember waiting for the coach to take us back from swimming at primary school, aged 10, and my hair freezing. It was great! That was the same day we unexpectedly saw a kingfisher. When we got back to school we drew a picture and wrote a poem about it, mine included the fact that my hair had been frozen at the time I saw it. I wonder whether teachers nowadays could bin whatever they had prepared for the afternoon nowadays and take creative advantage of an unexpected kingfisher sighting. I hope so.