Swimming lesson in this weather

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DD is year 4 & they have swimming lessons at sch on Thursdays. It is -5 degrees here today. Should these kids be swimming today? Or am I just an over protective mother?

Are they swimming in the sea?

Yes you are being overprotective.

Reminds me of a pre school journey parents meeting with DDs class when she was in yr 5 and one mother going on and on and on about how her precious daughter needed her hair dried fully with a hairdryer before she was allowed outside. The trip was in May. Oh how I laughed (inwardly).

Swimming in a lake or outdoor pool: YANBU
Swimming in an indoor pool: YABU

Provided they’re not in an unheated outdoor pool, it’s fine. Make sure your child has a coat and hat to put on after the class.

Assuming they're not in an outdoor pool or the sea why on earth would they not swim? My DC were both in the (indoor) pool for swim squad training at 7am this morning and perfectly fine.

@NicholJO

He will know your son soon enough,
when he gets brr 🥶 cold after school swimming 🏊‍♀️ classes the importance of ensuring to dry himself properly and keep warm,

Children and young people are pampered enough allready nowadays,

Children and young people have participated in indoors swimming 🏊‍♂️ classes in the past in colder weather ,
plenty of times and it hasn't affected them badly at all,

In some countries like Finland 🇫🇮 ect its their culture to do outdoor swimming 🏊‍♂️ even when it's colder weather,
It's susposed to improve your immune system along as its done properly in a safe way..

My mum just asked me if I was taking Dd tonight because it's so cold, I was just like, well yes, why wouldn't I? Its not in a lake.

I live in Germany and it's been between -11 and -6 for 2 weeks now... I couldn't imagine stopping certain things cause it's cold outside. Swimming is fine, op

My DC is swimming everyday this week (school swim team so its facilitated by school albeit not a swim lesson). It's a 10 minute walk to school after the meet and the kids aren't allowed to use hairdryers (they simply don't have the time).

We've made sure DC wears her swim hat - she has long hair - and that she is well layered, has decent hat, gloves and scarf and dries herself and her hair as much as she can.

I must admit it's the first time I've had reservations about letting her swim due to the weather but realistically what else can we do?

Unless they are going wild swimming in a lake somewhere, YABU

Eh

OP, do you realise all the kids are running around outside at playtime and lunchtime? Sometimes they don't wear their coats either!

It won't be -5 degrees at the swimming baths.

HTH.

Dd didn't go to swimming lessons in the - weather. The roads were terrible and it took hours to heat her up from nursery so we skipped this week.

I remember the nuns having to do this at the school I went to, have memories of being lined up and being pushed in as none of us would get in the pool. We had to shower outdoors as well. I was around 5 at the time so early 70s

Who said this?

People do just make things up - unless the pool has made an announcement I would assume this was bollocks.

Who is "someone"?

Honestly I find this very unlikely, I used to work in a pool and my dad was a casual manager there so head dealt with the pool plant a lot. It takes a LOT of energy to heat the pool up even 1°. It doesn't make sense to lower the temperature as it would take the same energy, or even more to heat it back up to the normal operating temperature. It also takes a bloody long time so it isn't a simple case of turning it up and it's done in a few hours, it can take ages.

I go swimming once a week with daughter and Grandson.. due to disability l need to be warm.The changing rooms and pool are warm. Tell her to dry her hair best she can and she will be fine.

we have swimming lessons outside of school and with school and the ones from school are a nightmare, a lot of pressure to dry quickly and no there isn’t enough time for sixty children to have a go with a hairdryer so when you collect in the afternoon they’ve had a few hours of barely dry hair and were generally in the school yard for lunchtime in the freezing weather too. Totally different to bringing them yourself and rushing them home. I totally believe they should have been cancelled this weather!

DDs school have cancelled their swimming lessons this week. They don’t have time for all the kids to dry their hair before the half hour walk back to school (timings are tight getting them all back for the end of day & school buses) so they’ve cancelled.

Her swimming lessons that we take her to where she’s in and out of the car are unaffected as it’s a totally different scenario

Agree with this. Very unlikely. Someone might have thought it felt cooler than normal. Doesn’t mean it was.

Only unreasonable if it's in the Channel, Atlantic or the North Sea.

-2 here today and I'm also wishing DC's swimming would be cancelled,

It's 28 degrees air temp at the pool and I don't know how to manage my layers for in there and then outside 😂

It's fine. I would take a warm hat if she is not fully drying her hair there though so it doesn't freeze.

YABVVVU

If the pool is colder than usual, put your DC into a rash vest or something similar. I taught swimming last year and our pool had the temperature reduced to save on heating costs. I wore my normal swimsuit and then a rash vest and some shorts. Couldn't feel the difference. I suggested layering up to the kids as well, if they complained that it was too cold.
All of ours shower and dry their hair, though. We go back on the bus.