Time Spent Swimming JFF

We go to the pool almost every night (weather permitting). My kids are in daycare and they have a pool, and the other days they go to my moms for swim lessons.

Growing up, we were at the pool daily. My mom got us a family pass to the pool in town. That is where I went to swim lessons and now where my kids go.

We live in a condo, and the complex has a pool so it is easy for us to go often. And my MIL has a pool and she lives about 5 mins away..so we have access to many places.

So my kids swim 5 of 7 days if not more.

Summer is what you make of it.. Zoo, hiking, camping, fishing... what ever you do together is what they are going to remember. :)

Why would it be cheating them? If you had a pool at home its a lot easier to go out and swim and get in and out. A pool in an apartment complex is a bigger deal to come and go. I think they will enjoy whatever time you spend with them.

We have a small inflatable pool at home. My dd will play in it as long as I let her... Lots on the weekend, then a couple of hours almost every day the weather permits.

Real pools, not much at all. We love them, but they are too expensive to enter, too crowded, and of questionable cleanliness. (Of course, if we had an apartment with a pool I would be all over that! Lol.) We have only been to actual pools with my dd three times in her life.

We don't spend much time at the pool, but the beach is another story! We go whenever we can. Weather here has been crappy, but once the rain lets up were off!

We like to swim a lot in the summer, although we do not have our own pool. I did not grow up with my own pool, and private pools are not terribly common here. We have a membership at the Y, so we go to that pool most often, and the kids have their swim lessons there. We also like to go to various other city run indoor and outdoor pools, wading pools and waterparks. We like variety, and I think it would be boring to stay in the same backyard pool all summer long. I prefer the beach over a pool any day, and we do spend more time at the beach than in a pool.

We had one in our back yard when we moved to Texas in 88 and spent hours in it. I wish we had one now. But when we lived in an apt when they boys where little we did not go often cause as you said it can bring interesting issues.

Whether you spend summer time with your kids swimming everyday or hiking everyday... that, is what they will remember.
You are not cheating them out of anything.
Their frame of reference, is what THEY experienced for summers... with you or their friends.

I grew up with our own pool.
And there is also the Pacific Ocean beaches in my State.
We didn't spend everyday swimming when I was growing up.
We did many other things.
Too.
A summer memory does not only comprise of going swimming in pools all summer.
Some people like being in pools swimming everyday and like the water.
Some don't. Even if it is readily available.

And one summer, my Dad had gotten sun poisoning. Being out in the sun fishing, too long for too many hours. He ended up in the hospital.

I take my 2 kids 5 days a week and we usually end up staying about an hour to an hour and a half... We go as soon as it opens (9am) and it's never crowded.

We have 2 neighborhood pools - I won't go if there's a big crowd there.

When I was a kid, we'd spend 5 hours a day at the pool.

My little ones can't do much more than 45 minutes before they get cold. I do think they will be pool rats by 7, though.

We go to the pool now and days because its hot.My hubby takes my 4 yr old son to the kiddie pool playground.While me and my 2 month old sun bathe or just sit in the nice water.
We go every sat.and sun because we are hardly ever busy.Sometimes when we are bored we go.We are moving across the country to Maine is August,so we get a nice beach were we live

I love to swim (you might guess by my screen name), and my children do too. It is winter here at the moment, and we go twice a week. This summer we plan to put an inground pool in our yard so we can swim everyday. My children are working up to be in the swimming squad. We also go to the beach most weekends in the summer, and occasionally in the winter.

we have a community pool and when we go there, we are usually there for 2-4 hours. We try to go as much as possible but lately the weather has been very rainy. I'd say almost 5 out of 7 days this whole summer has been rainy. So not fair :(

Red haired, blue eyed, light skinned children and water/sunshine do not mix well for very long. 2 hours would have been our limit.

A LOT!

We have an in-ground pool, as well as my sister & my in-laws...so needless to say my kids are little fish!

~We are moving this month to Long Island, NY...by the beach to a house w/no pool, so my kids are going to switch from having a childhood like their Daddy (grew up always having a pool) to having a childhood like mine (grew up by Long Beach, CA..always at the beach) & I can't wait!!

Not a whole lot. I do parent-child swim classes at the YMCA with my 2 yr old and 4 yr old, and my 6 yr old does 1x/wk lessons, but aside from that? Not that much. We have an inflatable pool for the back yard that is about 2' deep, but I haven't even set it up once this year, since every other day we seem to have severe weather and I don't want to deal with it blowing away. My neighbors have an above-ground Intex pool that my boys started to swim in last week. Now that my neighbor has taken a break from teaching music lessons for the rest of the summer, we'll be going in it more often. I find plenty of other things to do with them.

When I was a kid my mom almost never took us to the pool. When we were old enough we'd ride our bikes to the local pool, or if we didn't have money we'd go to a lake.

Prob 4 hrs a day on average, but its in my backyard and I stay home with our kids :)

Oh, we try to go 3 or 4 times a year. We don't have a pool at our house. There aren't any community pools that we can get memberships to. The only public pools are with the park district, and they cost about $15 or $20 for a family of four to go for one day.

We will be taking a one week vacation, so we plan to swim while we're there. Other than that, the pool is a once in awhile treat. Not everyone can do this on a regular basis.

Definitely do not feel guilty about it. There are probably things you wish you could have done more often as a kid that yours are able to do all the time. We live out in the country and have a couple of acres. I feel bad for my kids because there are no neighborhood kids to play with and they can't ride their bikes because we live on a state highway and have a gravel driveway. Then again, they get to ride four wheelers and have lots of things to do on our property.

There will always be things we can't do. It's called "Opportunity Cost." It's what we have to say no to in order to say yes to other things. Don't waste your energy on mourning the things you can't do. It will only take your attention off everything you can do.

My son is on the swim team this year, so we've been going A LOT! We go 3 - 4 days a week for 1.5 - 2 hours each time (practice is 30-45 minutes of that time), plus he's in swim meets on Saturdays. I have a younger daughter who always comes along and is in the pool almost the entire time he is. She can't swim at all (only 2.5) so I have to be in with her the whole time, too.

I think if you can make it to the pool a couple of times a week, your kids won't feel cheated and won't get burned out by too much swimming either.

I'd say 1-2 hours a few times during the week and then it can be 5 hours a day on weekends. I didn't do camps much as a kid so it was the pool and/or beach a ton when I was a kid. Mine are only doing camp a few hours a day most of this summer so I'm expecting pool time to increase a bit. I do think it's a fun way for kids to spend time and kind of easy on the parent... Maybe there's an "off hours" timeframe at your apt pool so you could avoid issues? Ours is a community pool too but maybe bc it's houses there aren't really issues vs a huge playdate. So when I get to go, it's often the kids playing happily while neighborhood moms and I chat. Very easy :)

Every day, for about 2 hours. But we have a pool, we are lucky. It's great exercise for the kids, and they love it