mums who swim but dont get their hair wet

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I make ds2 go past and splash them
jessies

What made swimming even better for me: getting a good pair of goggles, so my contact lenses are quite safe, plus learning how to breathe properly underwater. This allows you to go faster and eventually for longer, avoids any crick in the neck, and just makes the whole experience more worthwile IMO. Hair may stink of chlorine but it's still my fave form of exercise.

you lot who are worried about your hair should visit my hairdresser. I think she was drunk on Christmas eve, when I had my haircut. She spent AGES cutting it short and shaping it really carefully, then took out the clippers and went over the top in about 10 seconds. Then I put my specs on....it's no longer than 1/2 an inch all over. Dd burst into tears as soon as she saw me, and my colleaugues have all had a really good laugh!

Oh Tissy-!!

Tissy that's awful . What had you asked her to do?

dont be so touhcy folks! its a joke
I dont really
anyway at least its deflected form you knwo who

I thought this was going to be a light-hearted thread, but some of the posts about non-swimmers have been so harsh they are quite upsetting. I don't demand that everyone else on MN lives by my rules, so why do some posters feel it's OK to tell me that I must do what you do?

It's particularly upsetting because the reason I'm a non-swimmer is that I'm scared of water. Because I had a succession of bullies for teachers who thought the way to teach children to swim was to throw us in the deep end. Tried again as a teenager only to be met by the same problem. Why should I want to revisit an activity that made me feel terrified, picked on, humiliated and distressed?

I hope ds doesn't inherit my fears but then, he'll go swimming with dh who has no problems at all.

Why not ask yourself why people may not be able to do something you find quite easy, rather than just assume they are lazy or stupid?

Oh god I give up.
I have been tryong to move on from w and r and yet you re all still touchy.
think fro some of you its your " defualt setting"

edam are you really offended byt his
r eally really?

and really if you dont like it dont post! theres loads of posts I dont like!

anorak, I had asked her to cut it short,(it's usually short, but not a skinhead!) but because I had my glasses off I couldn't see what she was doing!

BTW, the haircut was in St Albans, how much to tell you who to avoid??

Yes - it's not a 'if you don't like it don't post' conversation about something I don't like, it's a conversation that includes very critical comments about people like me. It's one thing to suggest people ignore threads that they find distasteful, it's another thing to tell people who are scared of an activity to ignore jibes at them.
And I don't usually complain about posts, but this hit a nerve. We've all got our vulnerable points, why trample all over someone elses by having a go because they can't do something as well as you?

I'm with you on this one Cod!

phew

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Well maybe you are lucky enough never to have been frightened, or bullied. Good for you. But why not try thinking before condeming other people who might not have been as fortunate?

Yeah, the initial post was funny but the comments about non-swimmers were harsh and thoughtless.

Tissy, I live near St Albans, not in it and I get my hair cut in the village so hopefully I am safe from a scalping!

You are making me think of Eastenders! I hope you haven't been bonking the hairdresser's husband

I thought Coddy was serious at first, but she has explained.

I think the inital postings were light hearted, but sadly as soon as there was anyone going against the "let's splash 'em" theory, it went wrong.

Besides doesn't apply to me in my nice, new, clean gym pool now

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went to a splash party yesterday with all 3 kids, DH also there (on sidelines - he can't swim, sorry cod) and he commented on number of mums who, having donned cossies etc, then just stood at the edge of the pool gossiping as if at school gates!! lol (hope none of them log on here...)
I was rushing about all over the place after ds2, manic slide-king, so got VERY wet, but then i always do.
(hear what y're saying tho Hula, well done on the 8 lengths)

Well, I did suggest yonks ago putting up some warning system on threads (eg sweet 'n lite/bit mean/really mean) so that all the people with humour bypasses know where to congregate.....
(I'll be in the really mean one, getting roughed up and giving as good as I get. Bet Coddy will too!!)

don't think hairdresser has a husband, anorak, and as I live in Scotland, it would take a lot of effort to bonk him! I was just in St. A for Christmas. This was a Chinese lady who comes to Mum's house on request. Has been doing our hair for years. She is the only one dd will let near her hair, surprisingly!!

some of us are lucky enough to have relatives with their own pool, so we don't have to brave the public pools