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captain_slinky) wrote2014-07-14 06:38 pm
captain_slinky) wrote2014-07-14 06:38 pm
What would you do?
The Neighbors have a brand-new above ground pool for the Summer, and have said we can come over anytime and swim in it.
Molly loves swimming *SO MUCH*.
The neighbors and, more specifically, the neighbor kids (the grandkids of our neighbor) are just... they're the worst. A brother/sister team 2 or 3 years older than Molly, they are the type of kids who have scream-fights with their mom. These two kids are what I like to call "Shuffle Kids", the type who are always either on their way to or from practice for Softball, Gymnastics, Soccer, Golf, Dance, Yoga, Lacrosse, Football and/or Cricket. That's okay, but it has made them kind of conceited... they have always done their best to exclude Molly from whatever they are doing or playing outside in the most condescending way possible because they are just SO VERY above her in every way possible. Molly takes it in stride, she's like that, but it bugs the crap out of me.
So back to the pool... the Grandma is the one who has invited us/Molly to come over and since it's grandmas house and grandmas pool, it's grandmas rules. However, The Grandkids have already been seen to roll their eyes at the mere notion that they would have to share THEIR pool with such a "Baby".
SO! Here are the things I/we could do in this situation:
1) Let Molly go over there and be ignored and/or bullied by The Grandkids till she has a terrible time.
2) Set up our own, much smaller "Kiddie Pool" that would leave Molly wondering why she's not "allowed" in "The Real Pool", plus it may insult the Neighbor Grandma who invited us over anytime.
3) Stay indoors where we don't have to get sunburned or waterlogged or bullied.
4) ???
Molly loves swimming *SO MUCH*.
The neighbors and, more specifically, the neighbor kids (the grandkids of our neighbor) are just... they're the worst. A brother/sister team 2 or 3 years older than Molly, they are the type of kids who have scream-fights with their mom. These two kids are what I like to call "Shuffle Kids", the type who are always either on their way to or from practice for Softball, Gymnastics, Soccer, Golf, Dance, Yoga, Lacrosse, Football and/or Cricket. That's okay, but it has made them kind of conceited... they have always done their best to exclude Molly from whatever they are doing or playing outside in the most condescending way possible because they are just SO VERY above her in every way possible. Molly takes it in stride, she's like that, but it bugs the crap out of me.
So back to the pool... the Grandma is the one who has invited us/Molly to come over and since it's grandmas house and grandmas pool, it's grandmas rules. However, The Grandkids have already been seen to roll their eyes at the mere notion that they would have to share THEIR pool with such a "Baby".
SO! Here are the things I/we could do in this situation:
1) Let Molly go over there and be ignored and/or bullied by The Grandkids till she has a terrible time.
2) Set up our own, much smaller "Kiddie Pool" that would leave Molly wondering why she's not "allowed" in "The Real Pool", plus it may insult the Neighbor Grandma who invited us over anytime.
3) Stay indoors where we don't have to get sunburned or waterlogged or bullied.
4) ???
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This of course assumes that Molly would let you know if she grew tired of the other kids being butts and that it was harshing her swim-squee.
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