Parents doing all this in after swim class showers?

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OK,today after ds swim class the showers were crammed. As usual. Tbh I usually wait til we get home and do a proper shower/ bath. however today I thought I'd quickly shower him to save me doing it later. There were children in there with parents stood outside loaded with shampoos...conditioners ( telling them to leave it on at least 2minutes) body washes...rinsing and generally taking their time despite huge queues of dripping children and parents waiting for their turn..

There are 32 children at a lesson time and 8 showers. The people who fully wash their DC while others stand shivering are utterly selfish.

We have the same - and added problem despite signs saying use lockers and don't leave clothes in cubicles - same people do so.

Sometimes my DC have to wait for quick shower - one of mine has eczema so has to get clorine off -only to find there are no changing cubicles at end either.

This is what's happened at my sports centre astoundedgoat.. Most of us after gym/ dance swimming with the kids quickly shower but there's the few who arrive with a whole vanity case filled with shower products when there isn't the time or room given the amount of rotating classes and children. It's just respect for others. Hurry the child along reminding them other people are waiting? That's what we do anyway.

After swimming lessons for my daughter I cannot wait to get home lol!
I just quickly dry her and we go home for a full bath.
Its too hot in there to hang around!

YANBU I get pissed off with this too, especially when all the children wear swim caps during lessons so surely the hair should just stay dry?? I always have to queue ages for a shower, then struggle to find a changing room...

However I think it’s also the swimming baths fault for not providing enough showers and changing cabins to begin with.

I think most people got what the OP meant.

All the Swimming lesson changing rooms I’ve ever been in resemble the 8th circle of hell and are either boiling hot or freezing cold. Why anyone would plan to be in them a nanosecond longer than necessary is beyond me.

But I do enjoy reading people’s me me me excuses for not having any consideration for others. It explains a lot.

I hate this too OP. I can't stand the noise, the shouting, the stress of the other parents, the tired children.
I take two small towels or two bobble hats in the winter, get out, wrap our heads in towel/hat, I don't even get dressed properly! no bra, no makeup, stick track suit on, no socks, just go straight home, do shower at home and put PJs on.

Of course this plan this backfired once when I had a car accident on the way home (a dog ran into the road, and I hit it) and I was running around in the street looking for the dog's owner, and then I was at the vet's, head wrapped in a towel ... the dog was fine by the way) but mostly it's a good plan for me.

To the poster who said it's not like we are not going to read the news straight after, that made me laugh.

We would wash and condition, quick comb and rinse. Then out.

In our swimming lessons, the standard practice is to rinse child, take child out of shower to shampoo hair - someone else takes that shower - put child back in to rinse shampoo, take child out to condition hair - again, someone else has the shower - put child back in to rinse conditioner. Some people also do body wash with shampoo. There are four showers in a row in the female changing area and about 10 children using them at once on a rolling cycle, at most you have to wait around for a couple of minutes (with shampoo/conditioner in) for a shower to free up.

I assumed every pool did something similar, except the ones with cubicle showers. Apparently not.

Our pool is specifically for children and lessons, it doesn't have open public swimming. It has 6 shower heads together in one big showering area .. with at least 6 kids per lesson, potentially 2 or 3 lessons finishing at the same time, plus at least one parent waiting per child it gets a bit hectic and to then have anyone doing shampoo, conditioner plus body wash is mad. I make my DS walk under the water to get rid of the chlorine and that's it.

I have never got involved with this nonsense. I dry them off, 15 minutes walk home then straight into a warm bath or shower in the privacy of their own home where they can relax and take as long as they like.

I would take the time to shower ds properly after swimming as the bonus is it saves me doing bath time at home.
Life is hectic enough.
However we use a kids 3in 1 body wash, shampoo and detangler for soft hair. And there’s no faffing about leaving it in for three minutes or whatever I agree this is precious I don’t even do it on my own long hair at the swimming pool.

I always used to wear a swimming hat for swimming lessons. Never stopped my hair from getting wet or tangled, and the rubber ones made it worse. Swimming hats are to stop hair getting into the pool and filter, not to protect your hair.

Thick as shit, ignorant bastards.Tight as arseholes as well, they should use their own hot water at home.Actually they should just stay at home

I'm never sure how people who post like this react to something important..

Turn it on its head.....how long do you need to wash a child? ... Given there's a huge queue.. It's boiling... We need to get home.. And this is only a once a week occurrence.? . I'm sure there'd be different answers to all the ones saying totally necessary to do this dragged out procedure.

Do they not do showery bit, slap the conditioner on, let the kid after theirs jump in and say can theirs skip back in to rinse off the conditioner if they have a 2 minute rule? Quicker production line.

Would be great if they had a spray hose just to rinse conditioner.

I'm never sure how people who post like this react to something important..

Exactly! It doesn’t even matter who’s right or wrong tbh. The biggest thing I’ve noticed on this thread is how ANGRY, SHOUTY and PERSONAL people get over something minor. Meh. It’s not my blood pressure 🤷‍♀️.

At our place they are cubicled .. So doors lock. No chance of saying can my son/ daughter just sidle in to quickly rinse the chlorine.. That'd be my method though..like a production line. We're all in the same boat so parents together should understand each other surely? The showers going into the pool though are all shared so this would work.

I have never NOT washed my hair after swimming. Ever.

I thought this was a AIBU thread?? My opinion YANBU. I don't understand the backlash or nastiness either toward the original poster or is it just me?? If you don't want to join the debate with mature insight then don't click on it. Jeeeeez. Supposed to be ' mumsnet ' not feisty teenage girls answering back with venom causing unnecessary arguments on a simple subject?!

Municipal pool showers are not the place to linger or pamper yourself! Sometimes they are not even places to get clean ughhh. Do the necessary as quickly as possible and get out- both to avoid verruccas/ other people's hair clogging up the drain etc AND to avoid making a queue of shivering kids wait.

If you don't want to join the debate with mature insight then don't click on it. Jeeeeez.

Exactly. Which is why I think the op calling people “you freak” and some other poster calling me a “strange narcissistical” is pretty poor. You’ll noticed that I only actually criticised the op’s post after she’d called someone a freak. Jeeeeeez so mature of her .

If you don't want to join the debate with mature insight then don't click on it

The "debate" wasn't started with any mature insight and the OP is exceedingly rude, far more so than anyone who replied to her rudeness.

The funniest thing is that the poster who called me a “strange narcissistical” did so because she (wrongly) assumed I was one of the parents the op was complaining about. Shallow thinking. You don’t agree with the op’s posts therefore you must be in league with the dastardly shower hoggers. Sorry, no, I just think the op’s posts are rude, angry and boorish.

Getting boring now.... I think the OP has dissappeared anyway... No bloddy wunder with these comments. Are you there OP? Not everyone disagreeing with you...