Mom with at least 2 kids 3 and under

august0605bride

Do you go to the pool a lot?

I want to join a pool today, but am wondering if it is going to be ginormous waste of money b/c it'll be a pain to supervise them both.

Also, our pools don't open until 1-- is this normal where you live? Do you go in the late afternoon?

SumnerBride

We've never been.  I don't know how to swim (grew up in Alaska where you don't swim in the water, or you'll die of hypothermia), and I didn't want my kids to learn until they were around 3 or 4.

AnnapolisLari

I went maybe 2 times last summer, and that was with just one kid.

I have no way of supervising two. If DS takes swimming lessons this year, it will have to be on Saturday or Sunday when I can leave DD with my husband.

IFMTS

It's hard, but we only go for an hour or two. Older DS doesn't really get into the baby pool, so I just have to hold younger DS in the water. They both like the big pool, because it's heated. After about 20 min, my arms hurt from carrying both of them. I do like it, because they are both so tired after going, so it's always followed by a long nap.

 

Chrisy-Wyobride

No, never did much last summer...maybe 3 times all summer.  This summer the 2 older girls are doing daily swim lessons so we will be there every morning so we will be there a lot but I won't have to be supervising per se.  My newborn & I will watch the younger one & the older one is good in the water already.  Your pool probably doesn't open because of swim lessons every morning...it's fairly common I find.

LeisureSuitLauren

I go alot. Most of the time it works out just fine.  The baby is usually happy in the stroller and I swim with G who is in a life vest. Sometimes she just plays on the stairs to the pool and I can tend to the baby if she needs it. Noah is on his own (supervised by life guards in the deep end). I only put the baby in when it gets super hot, just to cool her off.  I actually don't know what we'd do without the pool, it gets extrememly hot here in the summer.

Alibabs

We've only been to a pool once and it was so cold the kids bawled!

 

MrsCorbin

We go to the splash park a lot but have never been to the pool.  DD doesn't like being emmerged  (sp?) in water and it would be too hard.  In our backyard we have a baby pool, bigger blow up pool, splash pad, and water table set up.  The kids play out there every morning and then take loooong naps.

DandR

buy a kiddy pool for your back yard....MUCH easier and then you can go when its conveineint for YOU and the kids...not when the pool is open and crowded, etc.

We contimplated this year joining a pool...but Mitch is in the destructive, fearless phase and decided the back yard pool is just fine...perfect for the kids to splash and cool off and no crowds or worries of kids running to the deep end and jumping in.

JOEBunny

I don't really like to go.  I just use my friends guest passes and that is more than enough for me.  I probably won't go more than 6 times this summer.  I grew up with a beach house and a lake house.  I like swimming in "big" water, but am not sure what to do in the pool other than laps.  We will probably join when DD gets older, if she wants to do swim team or something like that.

 

I second the kiddie pool.  I like the "hard" plastic one over the blow up, much easier to clean.  DD will play in it for a long time and it is super easy for me to sit on the front porch with DS and watch her.  1/2 the time, she plays around it, filling containers with water, playing kitchen or garden with the water.

akgram

Our pool also opens at 1pm so we usually go after naps around 230-3pm but I haven't braved it by myself.  Mainly for safety sake and my sanity!  The girls are both good but I don't feel like I could watch them both safely at this point.  SO since my DH works 3p-11p I usually ask my dad who is retired to join us, he loves it and so do the girls.  We also can't use the water wings so that would make me feel a little better but it's a no go.

shopgirl78

We go to the waterpark 1-2x a week (we'd go more if I didn't work!!)

Bellisimo

The fact that it doesn't open until 1 is weird to me.  The pools around here open at 9 or 10 a.m.  Having said that, we've yet to haul both kids and all of their stuff up to our club's pool.  We built a pool for that very reason...so we wouldn't have to leave the house because, as you well know, leaving the house with two kids in and of itself is a freaking chore and not one that I choose to do often.  We fit in pool time between naps....and I'm out there every chance I get when the kids are both napping and when MH is home to help supervise the kids.