Brownies

[Fairysparkle84]

My daughter absolutely loves her brownies. The leaders are fabulous and she gets so excited about going every week. But she also is into swimming and the swimming night has changed.

there is another brownie unit on in the same hall on a different night that suits better. However I haven’t heard great things about it. The leader is really old school, apparently gives kids time out if they are late (which is ultimately parents fault not kids) amongst other things I have heard. I’m not keen on her going there.

daughter wants to stay at current unit and give up swimming but my husband (who was also a competitive swimmer) is against this idea. He thinks swimming will be something she can go to for years but she is only at brownies another year and a bit before she is 10

I would rather she stays at brownies as I think she enjoys it more and gets more out of it and if she wants to move up to guides when she is 10

its causing a bit of friction in our house just now. I thought it would be good to get others thoughts.

She wants to go to brownies and drop swimming. So do that. She can go back to swimming in a year and a bit if she wants. Dance Mom vibes from swim dad.

She won't thank her DF or you for making her give up an activity that she enjoys.

If it's only a year or so then I'd let her drop the swimming and potentially pick it back up when she moves onto guides.

At her age she can swim at any time, it doesn't have to be a class, so she can keep going on her own for a bit.

She's old enough to choose now.

He is right that she an swim for years, but only do brownies til she's ten or so, but that's the argument to let her do brownies not swimming. She will be able to do swimming at any time in her future, if that's something she finds a passion for in that future. At the moment she's happy at brownies, and that will only be for a finite period of time. She should be allowed to make the most of it if that's what she wants to do.

Pick up swimming when she moves to guides?

Is there nowhere else she can swim? We live rurally and I can think of about 10 different pools that each do their own lesson programs.