Public Pool Polls (etiquette with children and toys) (1 Viewer)

[gianmarco]

Not sure how many of you have kids and belong to public pools, but curious your thoughts on the above questions.  For those unaware, it's not uncommon for lots of random toys to be laying around and kids will walk up and use things that may or may not be theirs.  I've seen some variations of things being said in all forms of the above while at the pool.  Personally, I don't care who is using which toys when. 

The only time I even bother to say anything with our stuff is when we're getting ready to go and need to pack up our stuff.  If another kid is trying to play with our toys and my kid wants to use it, I just let them work it out.  If my kid is using another kids' toys, I usually won't say anything either unless I see a problem starting to brew and then I'll just redirect back to our stuff.  While it hasn't happened to us (yet), I have seen some parents get a little wacky about other children using their pool toys or stopping them from ever using someone else's.  I actually saw one parent ask some other kid to share with their kid.  I thought that was a bit nutty but not sure what I'd do/say if they said that to mine.

Curious where some of you fall here. Feel free to clarify any "other" that I might have overlooked.

 

[-OZ-]

Depends.

In my neighborhood no problem. The kids share.

Other public pools? If we know the other kids it's cool. If the kids are all getting along it's fine. If my kids are acting selfish (thankfully usually not bad except with each other's stuff) or the other kids are, that's a problem to be solved quickly.

 

[msudaisy26]

This is way too much work for a message board. 

 

[RokNRole]

The only solution is to fake your own death and walk away.