Last fall, I wrote about our difficulties getting swimtime in for Charlie at our YMCA pool in the later afternoon/early evenings, the time when he’s most ready to go. Our YMCA has three pools, two of which seem to be perpetually in use for the swim teams’ practices, adult lap swimming, or lessons. The third pool is the “family pool” and consists of a wading pool with a slide and spouting water toys, a 3-4 feet deep rectangular pool, and two water slides.

This is a fine set-up if you want to splash around, shoot baskets into the hoop at one …read more