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July 13, 2021 by not your average mom 2 Comments

Number 5 is twelve years old. She’s on the swim team, and in two weeks there is a swim meet called Age Groups here in Connecticut. Age Groups is a swim meet that many young swimmers in CT want to qualify for. You have to have certain qualifying times in order to go. Number 5 […]

Filed Under: Life at My House Tagged With: comfort zones, showing up, swim team

I Feel Like My Old Swimming Self Again

March 31, 2021 by not your average mom 1 Comment

If I had to choose the one thing that has had the biggest impact on my life, it would be the sport of swimming. I’ve been involved with swimming in some capacity for forty-one years. I started swimming when I was ten years old. Many swimmers had already been on the team for two or […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned Tagged With: competitive swimming, life lessons through sports, swim team

What To Do When Your Daughter Is On The Swim Team And She Gets Her Period For The First Time

March 30, 2021 by not your average mom 2 Comments

Spring is in the air, and it appears new growth and change isn’t only happening at an increasing rate out in nature right now. For many of my friends’ daughters, things are also changing, and I’ve been receiving multiple private messages asking for guidance around the topic of swim team and your daughter’s first period. […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: getting your period on the swim team, swim team, your daughter's first period

They’ll Do It When They Are Ready

November 14, 2020 by not your average mom 1 Comment

Most of you know I was serious swimmer all the way through college, and then after college I started coaching swimming. Actually, I started coaching in the summers at a country club while I was still in college. And over the past 30 years I’ve coached in some capacity at some level. I’ve been an […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Uncategorized Tagged With: backing off, swim team

Time For Change

February 25, 2020 by not your average mom 2 Comments

A couple weeks ago I mentioned I was going through a thing. I think it’s a midlife crisis. Or, as I prefer to call it, a midlife wake up call. After a near collapse and total shutdown about three weeks ago, I started seriously reevaluating my life. And since then, I’ve had a series of […]

Filed Under: Life at My House, Self Care, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: swim team, year round swimming

Anxious Kid – 1 Anxiety – 0

December 11, 2019 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

Two days ago I wrote this post about kids and anxiety. In that post, I used my little anxious buddy (with permission) as an example of how anxiety can really be misinterpreted as a behavior problem or a parenting problem. I didn’t really intend for the post to be only about my buddy, but rather […]

Filed Under: Exercise, Mental Health Tagged With: anxiety in kids, mental health, stress management, swim team, swimming

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