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..

@Chwaraeteg - very odd. At least it cleared up easily 😁

"do you people who wash your body before washing out your conditioner not find that you get terrible acne on your arse from doing so?"

No. There's no other way to do it is there really. You can't just stand around with conditioner on.

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.

Nnoooo!!!

Synchronised swimming would be easier !

Nnoooo!!!

Why not? What's wrong with it?

When kids/parents did the 'relay' with shampoo/conditioner, a child slipped on the floppy residue and really hurt their hip.

Swimming lessons! ..... grrrrrrrr! Hate them! And DC now has 4 a week - nightmare!!!

Oh .... and what's with the whole 'saving a cubicle buy putting clothes in it' thing all about? You r either using it or you are not using it! Don't put your bloody stuff in it then bugger off!!!!

Grrrrrrrrrrr

Bob

They've started removing all the entitled hoggers stuff at our pool.

They leave it all in a pile next to reception

You should see them kick off

I'm years past the swimming lessons stage but watching a re-run of Motherland last night (the swimming-party episode) brought it all back.

Yuck!

I disagree with the OP. Proper cleanliness is to be applauded. Leisure centres should provide more showers to recognise this.

One reason I will not join any of my local gyms is the minimal number of showers and that most people seem to go home without showering.

Parents aren't allowed in the changing rooms at out swimming club. The poor little darlings have to fend for themselves.

YANBU.

My 8yo swims 5 times a week. He climbs out, shoves his onesie on and we are out of there in less than 5 mins.

He showers when we get home though.

The being quick to avoid being rude and not leaving conditioner on for a few minutes is all very well if your child doesn’t have hair of Afro Caribbean descent. Even if it’s pretty short it’s a bloody nightmare. Simple solution is if you don’t like the shower provision move to different swimming lesson provider with more showers

YABU! I always make my DD 7 shower and wash her hair at swimming but we don’t have people queueing waiting to get in in all fairness. If we did I’d still do it just very quickly. I always help her so it’s quick other wise we’d be ages!

Our swimming lessons finish at 11am on a Saturday so often we go about our days plans straight after so not going home to bath/shower.

I’m just surprised that parents go in the changing rooms. When I had swimming lessons we all just used to pile in the shower together and get on with it. We didn’t need our parents to wash us! WTF?

This thread is amusing me. Can someone link to the onsie thread. We are guilty of this so I’m sure it’ll be an amusing read. Clean onsie in the bag for after swimming is much quicker and easier to put on than the school uniform they’ve just taken off - skirt/pinafore, blouse, tights, cardigan etc. Usually I’m a onsie and then bath at home but have been guilty of sending them to bed unshowered and bath in the morning as we are sometimes too late home.

As for caps. God they’re awful. The DO NOT keep hair dry. I couldn’t believe how wet their hair is when they take caps off. I learned this as a teacher who had to put on 30 caps before they all entered the pool and no one had dry hair after. I’ve since tried different caps for my own kids and none keep hair dry. They keep hair out of face which is why I persist as I have one child with wild hair that a pony tail or plait can’t tame for long. The current class they attend insist and each group has their own colour cap to identify children.

Having struggled with time to bath at home before bed I did just today buy some ‘swim’ shampoo conditioner 2 in 1 stuff from Superdrug to try straight from the pool at the leisure center. I’m now concerned about getting them through the (communal unisex) shower before they freeze waiting or before I get growled at by another parent. Luckily one of my DDs has been moved group so they now follow each other time wise rather than swim/shower at the same time.

Changing room etiquette has been interesting. Mostly single cubicles with the odd family sized ones. I’ve 2 kids and rarely get a bigger one and I get mad with people who leave their towels in the big (and small) cubicles to hog their space. My eldest did school swimming from y2 so at y5 can quickly get changed herself but I’d need to assist with hair washing. DD1 just went into y2 so I’m trying to train her to know how to get dressed for when they start school swimming after Easter. As a teacher, school swimming is a nightmare in the changing rooms after as kids really don’t know the best way to get dressed and can’t see why they should leave socks til last!!

Everyone at our lessons washes properly. They finish at 7.45 so nobody wants to go home and re shower at after 8pm. DD1 is a faffer so we tend to end up at the back of the queue not holding anyone up. If you are going to just have a quick rinse then shower at home why not just skip the pool shower and save waiting at all. The only one that annoys me is the little boy who each week walks straight to the front of the queue, gets in the shower and proceeds to stand there for eternity but doesn’t actually wash or use any products. There are only 2 showers at the pool. He is unaccompanied at the shower, I’ve no idea who or where his parent is. We also put on pj’s and onesie after - didn’t know this was a mumsnet sin! 😬

I don’t see the problem with a quick hairwash/bodywash- it must take 3 or 4 mins max for DD (8) to warm up/wash off stinky chlorine etc.

You’re lucky - my MIL took my DD last week and said one Mum put all 3 of her kids in the showers- 2 of whom had only been watching the lessons to “ save her doing it at home later” ! Now THAT’s cheeky!

My DDs have eczema so I need to do full on shampoo/body wash with chlorine removal stuff or they get mega itchy heads before they get home.

That said the amount of time actually spent under the shower should be minimal just for wetting and rinsing so can stand to oneside whilst I'm doing the lathering.

I think generally people just need to be aware and condiderate of other people.

leon I’m assuming the kids being washed/ prompted are the 3/4 yo’s. I don’t think anyone is saying they stand there making sure their 8 yo washes their hair properly!

My DD has very long hair. If I go swimming with her, I wash it for her and do mine at the same time. It's impossible if just she is swimming without getting soaked, so she rinses and I wash when we get home. Most people at our class do the same. Tbh I want to be out as quickly as possible anyway.

There's such mixed opinions that why not either a) just dry and go home to shower if you hate waiting or b) wait your turn and clean up properly in the changing room, if your priority is getting clean and you can't bear waiting around. Seems easier than just hoping everyone will fall into line with our own way of doing things!