Does this ad bother anyone else?

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This ad keeps being shown to me.

Why is she wearing glasses in the pool? I'm a glasses wearer and have never done this or seen it.

It's really bothering me! Why didn't they ask the model to take them off if she was actually a glasses wearer?

I have a super high prescription and had goggles made so I could swim from a swim goggle prescription site....

I still played in the pool with glasses whe. I had babies as you don't get the same breadth of vision in goggles and I wanted to. Play and enjoy my baby! Seems quite normal to me!

Your life must be really hard if you get so upset about things like this.

I always swim with my glasses on when I’m with my kids. Im too short sighted to keep them safe without my glasses. When I do lengths on my own I don’t wear them

Before I had kids I used to swim without glasses and accepted the odd moment of walking into the men's changing room by mistake as I could see the signs.

Being that blind without glasses and swimming with children? Absolutely no way.

I tried prescription goggles, but the cheap ones let in water which didn't do much for my vision, and expensive ones were more than I could justify at the time.

Not sure why you're seeing it as an issue.

Hilarious!

I'm very short sighted. If I didn't wear glasses/ contacts I can't see anything past 4 inches from my face and certainly couldn't find my way around. It's not good to wear contacts in the water due to risk of infection and prescription goggles are very expensive especially if you're like me and have a prescription that keeps changing- I'd need to get new ones every few years and as others have said it's unlikely they'd be made in a high enough strength for me. I have worn glasses in the pool when I've been going in with ds for his wee classes where I'm not actually getting my head wet but if I'm going by myself for a proper swim I wear contacts and goggles and then give them a good clean at home after but that's not recommended...

And this is partly why I always wear my glasses while mermaid swimming/performing too, because there are still people in the world who think taking them off is an option / it looks better / why would you wear them in x situation 😂 and as a small child with a high prescription I rarely saw anyone do anything fun wearing glasses, and certainly never any princesses/mermaids/main characters wearing them.

I have a prescription dive mask which was hideously expensive, but if I'm just swimming lengths breaststroke I'll wear my glasses cos it's more comfortable, and when performing as a mermaid you can't wear a dive mask so I have a pair of glasses that I also wear underwater.

And there isn't a chance in hell I'd take any of my niblings or cousins anywhere near a swimming pool without wearing my glasses so I can supervise them properly!

You can get cheap prescription goggles! They won’t be made perfectly to your normal prescription, but will be close enough to be useful in the pool. I love mine.

Devils advocate here, but a decent splash on my glasses and I’m fucked. Nothing to dry them on straight away. It fucks me off enough getting them rained on when I’m going to the supermarket. Might be an astigmatism thing (really quite bad) but water on my glasses debilitates me straight away if I can't sort it. Not an option going without. I don’t swim. Not because of this, I wouldn’t be seen dead in a swimming costume either
Just generally not my thing. I spectated DD's swimming lessons and the most I'll do is a quick dip in the pool fully covered with a tshirt and sarong if we're on holiday every few years
Glasses splashed, I’m out. She can swim with her cousins.

Tbf I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone in an indoor pool wearing glasses. But then I maybe don’t really notice other people in the pool.

Mumsnet is hilarious. I stated that I wear glasses in the OP too avoid all the 'you must think glasses look silly/hate people who wear glasses' nonsense but nevermind.

Anyway, I've never ever seen it so thought it just made the picture look very fake, but interesting to hear that people do this! I would never as they'd become redundant very quickly with any splashes, don't want to risk damage etc. I can see rough shapes without them so can manage but would definitely go for proper goggles if I needed to. I still can't see how it's practical, but everyone is different.

It's Ducklings classes being advertised. You don't swim. You stand and aid your child. If I didn't have my specs on I wouldn't be able to properly see the instructor who stands on the side or in the poool often some distance away and indicates what you should do next and how to hold the baby.

For those classes I wore my glasses. If I was simply swimming I wouldn't

What an odd post . I wear my glasses to my Aquafit class or I wouldn’t be able to see the instructor!
Presumably that lady needs to be able to see her child . And why should she take her glasses off for a photo, are glasses some kind of social no no I didn’t know about?!

I've always worn my glasses in the pool, I literally wouldn't have been able to take my kids swimming when they were small otherwise as it wouldn't have been safe! Plenty of us do. I think those who say they haven't seen anyone wearing them just aren't particularly looking for it.

I was a bride with glasses. Might have walked down the wrong aisle otherwise 😆

Have you been to swimming classes with a child? The baby is the one doing the "swimming", not you. So wearing glasses is perfectly fine. Why would it not be??

This is the most bizarre thread I have seen for ages.

How bizarre. Lots of people wear glasses in the pool, particularly for a kids swim session when are just holding them.

I have prescription goggles, I swim a lot. Tend to wear sunglasses in the oool on holiday though, is that odd too?

True. People who have high prescriptions might still wear glasses in the pool and they've probably been advised not to wear contact lenses in the pool.

Prescription goggles aren't always as expensive as some people think. Just in case anyone wants a pair: You can get basic ones for under £25. They won't be your exact prescription but should be enough to let you get around the pool.

I wouldn't be able to see my kids without mine so would be dangerous, especially at big water parks. I don't understand why this confuses you.

I wore mine when I took DS to ducklings classes, I wouldn't be able to see the teacher otherwise. When you're barely waist deep in water for the class you don't need goggles or to take them off, they got no more wet than going out in the rain.

I only swim in the sea (a warm one!) but I need to wear my sunglasses as I have blue eyes which are very sun sensitive.

I presume she's not there to swim lengths or whatever, she's there to teach her kid to swim, so she won't be putting her head under the water? Her hair looks quite dry. I'm trying to work out if the glasses were a 'creative decision' by the ad agency/ photographer, or whether they just happened to have a model that wore glasses? Maybe she was a staff member or guest at the pool and they just used her as she was there on the day of the shoot?

Without my glasses, if I hadn't walked into the deep end by mistake first having not realised it was there, I'd have been at risk of picking up somebody else's child, holding mine upside down or panicking over a partially deflated armband being a lone infant drowning.

Cheap swimming googles stop me swimming headfirst into the pool wall, but anything requiring depth perception or seeing something more than about eight foot away and my glasses are back on again.

When I take ds to the hydro pool I’m not swimming or putting my head in the water so I wear my glasses. He has prescription goggles to wear or he couldn’t see a thing

I wear my glasses in the pool with my kids. I have such bad eyesight that going in without would be dangerous. I wouldn'tbe able to keep an eye on my kids and make sure they aren't drowning otherwise. Once my eldest started diving under, I did get cheap prescription goggles. But the cheap ones don't go up to my prescription, and my eyes are two different prescriptions, so they tend to give me headaches. Buggered if I am spending a fortune on ones for my actual (terrible) eyesight just to watch kids splash.