mums who swim but dont get their hair wet

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I make ds2 go past and splash them
jessies

i'm the same sobernow

Me too. Can't even put my face under the shower.

sobernow, backstroke is good for not wanting to get your face wet. Then you can plough into naughty splashing children

Well, I wouldn't be mean and splashy in front of you lot then
Seriously though, doesn't this spoil your enjoyment of things like holidays and messing about with your kids in the pool?

I've got prescription goggles- cost about £30 I think- can swim without my specs and still see the other side of the pool!

My friend's mum went on a swimming course for adults at about the age of 55 for this reason-wanted to enjoy herself with the g'children.
Says learning changed her life!

Tissy I'm about -8
they would be bottle tops
but at £30 I'll have a go next time at opticians
they'd double as emergency spares

No, I'm quite happy to be a non-swimmer, have to say.

the worst is the when someone has really heavily perfumed hair and you get a breathful of perfume when swimming past... Yuuuuuuk!

try doing front crawl with a bikini! mine always comes down, top and bottom! Bikinis are for beaches and sunbathing!

Sobernow - try wearing goggles and sticking your face under.

I second the mention of prescription swimming goggles -- if you google 'prescription swimming goggles', there are several companies who will do them mail order for £20-£30. We've tried lots as dd1 has a complex prescription, and can't see across a room without glasses.

Gator ones are very good.

wild, I had that idea, too!

do contact lenses under goggles work as well though?

I can appreciate being too scared to put face in water - my mum had a similar experience to sobernow and didn't learn to swim until her 50's.
I wear coontacts when swimming and have never had a problem wearing goggles + contacts. I used to scuba dive in contacts and never lost one!

I love the feeling of being underwater - but not in a public pool - you usually see used plasters and trails of snot in the water and that really puts me off!!

I am another oe who is scared of the water. If I get splashed in my face I freak out. Anyone deliberatley doing that to me would be putting my children's safety at risk.

I too don't want them to inherit my fears but luckily my parents have a small pool so I take them in there.

Bathing with my daughter is a nightmare. She is always splashing me and I hate it.

You're obviously buying bikinis in the wrong size or something! I can do crawl and butterfly in a bikini with no risk of exposure and I'm 30E so not exactly small!

I think my bikinis are probably quite functional though, look like a lycra bra, bo halter necks, underwires, padding etc.

Swimming in bikinis also good for being able to see nice taut stomach instead of assuming that cossie is holding it in.

ginger bear! Seem the plasters but not the snot. You've put me right off now!

Maria luidsa
ahev a good tip for you
for speedo type costumes that are quite supporive ( loasd of lycra) look nofurther than
( shudders as she says it) BHS!!
theya re really good and quite cheap

the deliberate splashing was not serious( well not wuite)
but certainly wodulnt keep out of their way

cant beliewv adults who are non swimmers
it like not being able to do basic fisrt aid imo

I am one of the mums who tries not to get hair wet!

I don't mind getting wet but my hair is a nightmare and the more I dry and straighten it the more out-of-condition it gets - dry, frizzy, crystal tips, coconut mat!

I expect to get splashed by other pool users, of course, and usually my hair does get wet. But Coddy, sending your kids deliberately to splash someone you think is trying to keep their hair dry is more or less teaching them to be bullies . How do you know it isn't someone who is desperately trying to conquer a fear of water, for example. How about just getting on with your own swimming and leaving them alone. If they get splashed in the course of pool use that's different.

It's not. I'm a qualified first aider and that doesn't involved me have to change in a communal changing room and get my hair all frizzy cos I can't dry it properly afterwards.

why don't you non-wet hair mums wear a hat? You get a crick in the neck trying to hold it out of the water

iota the seal, who has just been swimming at lunchtime

Those rubber hats damage my hair worse than the chlorinated water.