If this is a reputable place and there's a lifeguard and only 12 5-6 year olds? My kid? Sure. He could swim and knew to respect the water. But if you'd feel better staying? Stay. It's totally your call.
LOL, I threw a pool party for DS's 8th birthday. High-end aquatics club, private party, 18 kids, 2 life guards in chairs and one in the water with them. Every single mom who RSVP'd insisted she was staying because preshus drowning OMG I need to be there to watch him- fine you know your kid best. I get it, I'd want to be certain there were appropriate safeguards in place. I worked as a lifeguard in high school.
So realizing I'd have 18 moms to entertain, I bought 4 bottles of wine and some finger foods. Not a single mom stayed in the pool area to watch her child once she scoped out the place. They stayed in the party roomwhere they ate, drank and talked smack about the teacher. I had to send DH out to buy more wine.
I dropped my then 6 yo off at a day camp that involved swimming for all of June and July last summer. There were counselors plus lifeguards, which is essentially the same as the parents plus lifeguards in this scenario. So I guess I have done this?
I've done this too, and will again this Summer. I've also stayed at pool parties. I don 't know how to answer. I guess I'd see how I feel after seeing the situation.
I dropped my then 6 yo off at a day camp that involved swimming for all of June and July last summer. There were counselors plus lifeguards, which is essentially the same as the parents plus lifeguards in this scenario. So I guess I have done this?
I've done this too, and will again this Summer. I've also stayed at pool parties. I don 't know how to answer. I guess I'd see how I feel after seeing the situation.
FWIW, I have always stayed at pool parties, too. But I don't feel quite right saying I would never leave in that situation given that I let my kids hang out at a day camp with a pool with a bunch of teenage counselor and life guards all day. And from about 8 yo on, I would be willing to send them to overnight camp with lakes and pools.
Post by rootbeerfloat on Feb 12, 2015 12:22:13 GMT -5
DS goes to summer day camp, where they swim. But there are staff assigned to keep track of him. To me, it's not the same as relying on a couple of parents who have to watch a bunch of other kids, too.
ETA: Also, he's 8, so maybe I would be more comfortable. DD is 5 and crazy, so I'm definitely not leaving her, lol.
I have done this (a birthday party at a fitness club last summer). As long as you trust the people having the party and there are sufficient adults and lifeguards, I'm ok with this.
No. not unless there were going to be life guards.
My Mom used to nanny when I was a kid, and she brought the girls to a pool party. A toddler was hanging out in one of those ring things, and flipped over. She couldn't get herself back up. My mom jumped in and saved her.
The mother of the girls said my Mom " over reacted" and tried to have her fired.
People are idiots and water is dangerous. At 5 years old I would only let professionals supervise my kid in the water in my absence.
I would stay. Especially knowing my boys, they would start roughhousing and one would end up under the water.
This makes me think back to when I was a kid - 4th and 5th grade. We had a pool and we always threw pool parties in the summer. It was just my mom (and sometimes my dad). I can't believe they took on that liability. Our pool was 8.5' deep. I hate having other kids play on my swingset lol.
We had an indoor pool growing up and the numbers of kids we had in the most pool most times was insane compared to the adults "supervising." I really am surprised no one drowned.
I would stay. Especially knowing my boys, they would start roughhousing and one would end up under the water.
This makes me think back to when I was a kid - 4th and 5th grade. We had a pool and we always threw pool parties in the summer. It was just my mom (and sometimes my dad). I can't believe they took on that liability. Our pool was 8.5' deep. I hate having other kids play on my swingset lol.
We had an indoor pool growing up and the numbers of kids we had in the most pool most times was insane compared to the adults "supervising." I really am surprised no one drowned.
From about 5 yo on, all my friends and I were allowed to ride our bikes from home to the local country club and swim all day with no one but the disinterested 15 yo life guards watching us. I am shocked that no ever drowned. Not to mention the fact that I don't think we ever reapplied sunscreen, and we ordered cokes and candy from the snack bar like it was going out of style. And I had generally involved, protective parents. We weren't even allowed to go on trampolines, yet my little brother was more or less at the pool alone all summer in first grade. So bizarre.