I have a theory that parents fall into 2 camps

[batmanladybird]

After they have taken their dc swimming
1 must have a bath to wash chlorine off
Or
2 they have been swimming so don't need a bath.

(Obvs extreme eczema etc notwithstanding)

Aibu?

And even are there other examples of this...

Surely most parents are

1. Ensure they have a shower to wash off the chlorine at the pool

Mine shower at home afterwards.

I am definitely number 1. A good shower is definitely needed after swimming.

When our shower was out of use we chucked the kids in the paddling pool each day...

But usually... yes shower the chlorine off. My younger DDs hair developed a greenish tinge once from too much swimming...

How is that a theory? They do wash them or they don't - what other options are there?!?

never been swimming so clearly there are more then 2

Or 3. They need a shower because they have long hair which will turn into straw if you don't give it a proper wash (guess which camp I'm in!)

No bath involved. Just a shower after swimming so they don’t stink of chlorine. Swimming is not a bath.

@Yuckypretty

Surely most parents are

1. Ensure they have a shower to wash off the chlorine at the pool

Yes, this!

When I was a kid it was "you don't need a bath, you've been swimming". No post-swimming shower either.

I think most parents these days would insist on the chlorine being washed off, whether it's in the showers at the pool or at home.

I think it was partly a function of having to "put the immersion on" for a bath, which was an extortionate and drastic measure to be avoided where at all possible - my stepfather was like Keyser Soze if anyone left the immersion on, and wanting a bath more than once a week was seen as the height of profligacy. Sending your kids swimming on a Sunday afternoon would have been a win. No kids all afternoon and no baths that evening!

Always shower at the pool so no bath needed

The hot shower when you get home is to warm you up after a journey home with wettish hair and socks

It's impossible to dry hair and feet properly till you get home

(Or hot bath in our dd's case as she's only a toddler still)

@ShirleyBadass

How is that a theory? They do wash them or they don't - what other options are there?!?

I thought this!

There's literally no other option.

Odd thread.

DS has a shower most days rather than a bath, but on swimming days he has a quick shower at the pool to rinse the chlorine off and shampoo his hair , plus a spray of coconut oil to stop his skin drying out, then a bath before bed usually with some almond oil in the water and co-founder for his hair (thick and curly). I have dry eczema prone skin and eczema is rife in my family. I manage mine well with natural products and haven't had a flare up for years, so I've always been very careful with DS' skin. Not sure I know anyone who would consider a swimming pool a substitute for a bath!

I think OP was trying to make a light-hearted point that you can tell something about a parent by whether they say "ooh, better have a nice bath to wash all that chlorine off" or "sod the bath tonight, you've been swimming"

Certainly applied when I was young. The twins next door had a mum in the first camp, mine firmly in the second. Maybe people these days are too po-faced hygiene conscious to appreciate the joke?

So funny
DH is firmly camp 1
I am firmly camp 2!

Or my scruffy fucker exh who thought as the towel was drying a clean dc it could fester in the swimming bag(in his car) from one lesson to the next...

Mine get option 3: quick shower at the pool to rinse the chlorine off.

I don't really understand, it's either: have a shower at the swimming baths, or wait til you get home and have a bath/shower there. I suppose if you had children with very short hair/shaved heads, they could get away with nothing afterwards but most people need to get the chlorine out, and often the swimming pool showers aren't powerful enough to do a good job at this.

Our pool still isn’t permitting post swim showers. Both DC have a bath after their lessons. A bath gets them properly clean and warms them up, and a change straight into pyjamas. I couldn’t bear to leave DD’s hair full of chlorine overnight. The brushing next day would be hellish.

@batmanladybird

After they have taken their dc swimming 1 must have a bath to wash chlorine off Or 2 they have been swimming so don't need a bath.

(Obvs extreme eczema etc notwithstanding)

Aibu?

I shower after the pool and wash there and then I'm all good for about two days. I don't bathe daily. I'm more of a natural oils type of gal.

Camp 2 here but only because we shower at the pool for about as long as we're in the pool, because toddler DD loves bubbles and was really disappointed at the lack of them IN the swimming pool the first time we went (lockdown kid)