The Best Advice I’ve Ever Heard a Swim Parents Give Their Kid

After all, this wonderful piece of advice was comprehensively powerful and gave exactly the right message: You can work hard, and have fun at the same time.

Having been in and around the pool deck for almost my entire life I have seen all manner of swim parent.

You've got the red-faced screamer. The parent who thinks he is the coach. The bubble-wrap optimist. The scoreboard whisperer. And everything else in between.

What do they all have in common?

They are trying to do right by their kid.