Wasn't there a scene about this in Caddy Shack? Something in the pool that looked like a floating Baby Ruth as I recall. The Baby Ruth probably smelled better than your Skid afte r10 days of no bathing though.

Yuck!

I guess it depends on her definition of "a lot". If it was all day every day as kids often do and nobody minds the smell of chlorine she's probably cleaner (chlorine disinfected) than we are.

My ex used to work at a "place" that had pools and he would tell me about the content of the period blood and poop that comes out of the pool...pools are disgusting....

My girls have GoPro video cameras and once brought them to the local community center pool. They would drop the camera into the pool and then jump in after it, recording their jump into the pool. I have several videos of SD8 jumping in, mouth open and smiling, spitting out the water when she resurfaced.

They happen to be videoing all of this by the giant grate-covered pool intake-filter system (mounted on the wall of the pool, not the bottom of the pool). The GoPro captured everything. Every hocked-lugey chunk floating in the water. Every dirty bandaid getting sucked through the grate. Every glob of hair floating towards the filter. It. Was. Disgusting.

I can never unsee any of it, I no longer look at public pools the same. Capital G gross.

As a BM, I am way more lax in the summer about bedtimes and such. Usually the kids play so much outside they go ahead and get in the shower on their own.

I will say that I am guilty of letting them go to bed "dirty" when we have been at an event/party/bbq and it's late by the time we get home without a shower and just saying "at least wash your feet you can shower tomorrow" Some people would probably be repulsed by this but it's summer, I can wash their sheets, sometimes it's just easier... that said... this probably occurs 1-3 time the entire summer, I would NEVER let my kid go two days in summer without a bath/shower let alone a week! Disgusting! I especially make them shower when they have been swimming in chlorine! It's chemicals!

I made the mistake of going swimming in my apt complex pool on the day after Labor Day when I was in college. It took months for me to get over that ear infection. Never again have been in a public pool. Yuck!!!

In hind sight I do not know how I swam competitiviely (Jr. Olympics, HS, College, Club Teams, etc...) without skeeving out over the being in a public pool.

BM uses the city pool, local lake, and backyard hose as "bathing areas" all summer long. The way SS15 tells it, no one in their home actually uses the tub or shower all summer. It explains a lot.