Our pool created a rule this summer that no kid (aged 4 and under) can be in the main swimming pool, period. This includes with a parent and regardless of whether or not they are wearing swim diapers. They are only allowed to swim in the baby pool, full stop. You can imagine the controversy this has caused.
I find this to be a ridiculous rule and plan to fight it, but was wondering whether it is more pervasive than I thought. The rationale seems to be related to keeping poop/vomit out of the pool but traditionally, this has not been a problem for this pool and when it has been, it's not exclusively a 4 and under problem! Seems like a sledgehammer to an ant, IMHO.
Wait a minute. I'm all for restricting the hell out of lap lanes, but a family pool is a family pool -- for the WHOLE family.
Seriously, how often has anyone ever had a code brown?? I've been in pools my entire life and never seen one. But I HAVE seen lap swimmers vomit in the gutter.
Too many kids already don't know how to swim, and they won't learn unless they can get in the pool.
In such matters, preventive measures (whatever they are) is the way to go, not after-the-fact punishment (such as a $200 fine). I wonder how often the culprit of such an "accident" has ever been identified.:cool:
I also don't have a problem with requiring swim diapers or charging for code brown that's traced to your kid. But keeping the under four crowd out of the pool all together? Just go ahead and make it an adults only swim club and be done with it -- and set the rules before you take peoples' money.
Yes, keeping them out all together is unnecessary if a swim diaper is required. I also understand why you would feel cheated if rules were changed after money has been exchanged. It seems to me that your approach should be:
1) Acknowledge to the powers that be that there IS a problem and you appreciate their attempt to remedy it.
2) Show them that requiring swim diapers is a better and fairer solution than the all out ban.
3) If your reasonable and better solution is ignored, seek to get your money back.
And the age requirement should be under 3, not under 4. But that is another story.
Most people are reasonable.
Has anyone documented a successful swim diaper save?
In all the years my kids (three of them) were in swim diapers, the containment capacity was never challenged by a significant volume. I am not sure they'd really be up to the task.
2 summers ago, went swimming with daughter 20+ times and had many saves. They work.
I don't mind kids in the pool, as long as the parents watch and take care of them. Just last weekend at my city pool, there were at least 2 babies with their moms in the pool with just plain diapers on. Extremely uncool in my book. If they would just put on swim diapers, I'd feel better about it.
Wait a minute. I'm all for restricting the hell out of lap lanes, but a family pool is a family pool -- for the WHOLE family.
I still don't get with that dealio is with the use of term "family pool." Big whoop. Do you sit at home in your family bath tub and loaf on each other? Family pool does not mean community toilet.
A compromise is that if you want your 's Breakfast Burritos (aka The GI Torpedo) before you let them in.
Seriously, how often has anyone ever had a code brown?? I've been in pools my entire life and never seen one.
While I personally have never caused a code brown, I have been the victim on at least 4 occasions.....3 kids pool incidents (at 3 different pools) which resulted in a 20min shock treatment and so everyone went in the lap pools instead during that time. Then there was the dubious looking object at the bottom of the deep end during one Masters practice, that we eventually decided was a code brown, but as we were half way through our hour session by that time, we carried on.
And then there was the incident with my daughter when she was 2.5, and potty trained, except it seemed in the pool.....she was actually playing on the kiddy play thing when it happened and came down the steps looking all panicked. So I very quickly and carefully scooped her up and legged it to the bathroom to sort her out:bolt: a code beige perhaps? or a lucky escape?:afraid:
Unfortunately it does happen, but I must admit I'd be pissed if they didn't let kids under 4 in our HOA pools because of it.
