Do You Wear Your Swimsuit Around The DCKs?

[SunflowerMama]

So it's already 100 here...welcome to summer in Texas. Needless to say we rarely have outside time in the afternoon that doesn't involve the sprinkler.

This summer I have all girls except twice a week for 3hrs in the morning.

The girls were begging me to put my suit on today with them to play in the sprinkler after nap. I have a one piece so it definitely keeps me well covered but I'm just wondering if anyone else ever wears their suit during water play.

Getting a little color while they enjoy the water in the summer heat sounds like a win-win but I just don't know.

[sharlan]

I don't see anything wrong with you wearing a one piece swim suit, boys or girls. Now, IF you wore a thong bikini, that would be a different story.

[jen]

I don't see anything wrong with it either! Swim on!

[KEG123]

I did the other day. Mine is a maternity tankini top, and the bottoms are "skirt" style. So I'm well covered. I just made sure to cover up at pickup, I'd feel more awkward with the parents seeing me in a suit.

[NiNi.R.]

I don't see anything wrong with you wearing a one piece swim suit, boys or girls. Now, IF you wore a thong bikini, that would be a different story.

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I myself wear my suit. It's also a one piece and looks more like a sundress. There have been plenty of times that I have still had it on at pick up with lack of time to change...none of my parents seemed to mind and I didn't feel awkward either considering I'm pretty covered.

[MyAngels]

God no, I don't want to give the kiddies nightmares. I don't see any reason other than that not to, though! ::

[gkids09]

Actually...since I don't exactly get AS wet as the kids do, sliding down the slip and slide, I found some swimming trunks at Wal-Mart last year, and wear those with a sleeveless shirt..One of the dcg asked me the other day "ARE YOU WEARING SWIMMING TRUNKS?!" like she was really amazed I didn't have on a little bikini like she was wearing.

I have thought about buying a one piece swimsuit to wear just at daycare, but we live on a somewhat busy street, and the chain link fence leaves nothing to the imagination of the people driving by...so I stick to my trunks. ha! The kids are DYING for me to slide down the slip and slide ONE time, so I may put my swimsuit on under my trunks this week and see how it goes!

[MG&Lsmom]

I've comtemplated buying the shorts and sport top tankini suit from Land's End for this very purpose. Unfortunately the top doesn't come big enough for me to be, um, supported, properly. I saw Athleta has a swim dress that's not frumpy and comes in my size Now to find $100 for a swim suit.

[daycare]

I dont have any suits that I would wear around my house. I don't really care what the kids would say, it's the parents should they come in. I am rather large chested, so I would just rather wear shorts and a T-shirt with a tank top under it....

Plus my husband would kill me.... jk

[Meeko]

I would frighten the kids AND the neighbors if I wore a swimsuit...

[Hunni Bee]

I always wear mine. I don't have anything but two-pieces, but I always wear shorts over the bottoms.

[QualiTcare]

i used to work for a summer program with school aged kids and even though i didn't get paid crap it was like a dream job bc i got paid to sit by the pool and get a tan pretty much! i wore my bathing suit and the kids didn't think anything of it at all. the parents didn't think anything either. if anything, i think they liked that i was right down there with the kids incase something was happening instead of fully clothed and not wanting to get wet.

[countrymom]

I wear it only in the morning because in the afternoon its way to hot to drag the kids out, except when I take them in the pool. I have a skirt on the bottom and the tankini on top.

[Michelle]

I do, we take the kids to water parks and the pool and we have to have a bathing suit on for the slides. Sometimes I think, "jeez , I'm getting paid for this?"

[melskids]

i have a one piece, but i wear boy shorts (like swim trunks) on the bottom, only cause thats what i wear all the time, no matter wher i am. i'm kinda modest, and i wouldnt want to scare anyone with my thunder thighs anyway