Does the "Wave Pool" give you stress?

[BraveMom3]

My three children love the wave pool at TL, but it really stresses me out. My DH is even worse about it. Children are 13, 9, and 8yo, but I can't relax the whole time they are in that thing. I go nuts if I lose sight of them. I'm so afraid they are going to get bashed by some big person when the waves crash. How does everyone handle this?

 

[helenm29]

I know what you mean! we've been there several times and my kids are now "big" enough to go by themselves but it still makes me nervouse if I can't see them. I also hate getting smashed against the concrete bottom! I always end up bruised and scraped when I leave there!

 

[Aneille]

I can't help you but wanted to let you know I feel the same way.

I've never been to the water parks at WDW but when I was college I worked for our City's Recreation Dept. and we took a trip every summer to a local water park.

They had a large wave pool and I was a nervous wreck and they weren't even my kids!

All the tubes and people, and you'd get out to the deep end and even I would get kind of swamped.

I actually stopped going on that trip because I couldn't stand the wave pool, even though young children weren't allowed on the trip and I would try to only bring 13 year olds and up, there was the occasional 11 year old in there.

But nothing ever happened, just me being nervous.

 

[loriandmatt]

i have to say that it stesses me a bit too. i actually stess more over the tiny bobbing type wave area at BB than the larger true wave pool at TL.

that one at BB gets deep quick and with those bobbing swells, it can very easily get over my sons (10yo) head.

he is pretty strong swimmer though and we generally always have one of us (me or DH) with him - in the general vacinity.

 

[PolyGuy]

I am right there with you...my 7yo drivers me nuts in the wave pool! I hate it. Can't keep up with em.

 

[stinkerbelle]

I'll never forget the first time, EVER, I was in the wave pool at TL.

DH says he's going deep...ok - i'll stay where I can stand
Water is almost up to my chest.

I hear the horn and this is what starts running through my head:

"Man this is cool...wow...look that swell...I wonder how they do that...why is everyone swimming away from it...omg...it's getting bigger...omg...there is a WALL OF BODIES COMING STRAIGHT AT ME...GET THE HECK OUTTA HERE...OUT OUT OUT...NOW NOW NOW...WHERE IS DH...WHO CARES...SAVE YOURSELF..."

at this point I think I've tackled like 4 kids and a nice English Guy (OY!) to get my body out of that wave pool...(ok - kidding - really, I didn't bash over kids...if I did they were bigger then me.)

I finally make it to where I can stand, make sure "the girls" are still where they should be (IN my swim top) and scan for dh.

20 mintues later DH makes it out "wasn't that fun?"

I'll be on the lazy river thank you very much. and I drag my bruised and scaped body over to the lazy river pronto.

 

[jme829]

My oldest (almost 13) I don't really worry to much about..I only get nervous if I can't see her because I don't wear my glasses in the pool and I can't see more than a foot in front of me without them so it takes me a while to spot her...My younger 2 (almost 5 and 7) I don't worry about because I stay right with them. Dh usually goes out with oldest and then if I want to play in the big waves he'll come up and stay with the other 2. My middle child is a nervous nellie anyways and doesn't go far from me especially in a pool,.

 

[vellamint]

I'll never forget the first time, EVER, I was in the wave pool at TL.

DH says he's going deep...ok - i'll stay where I can stand
Water is almost up to my chest.

I hear the horn and this is what starts running through my head:

"Man this is cool...wow...look that swell...I wonder how they do that...why is everyone swimming away from it...omg...it's getting bigger...omg...there is a WALL OF BODIES COMING STRAIGHT AT ME...GET THE HECK OUTTA HERE...OUT OUT OUT...NOW NOW NOW...WHERE IS DH...WHO CARES...SAVE YOURSELF..."

at this point I think I've tackled like 4 kids and a nice English Guy (OY!) to get my body out of that wave pool...(ok - kidding - really, I didn't bash over kids...if I did they were bigger then me.)

I finally make it to where I can stand, make sure "the girls" are still where they should be (IN my swim top) and scan for dh.

20 mintues later DH makes it out "wasn't that fun?"

I'll be on the lazy river thank you very much. and I drag my bruised and scaped body over to the lazy river pronto.

OMG How funny was that...LOL

Seriously....when mine were smaller I believe I had them wear t-shirts (matching) so I could always find them......it helped a little.

 

[AJKMOM]

The big waves are the reason I love TL, but hate to take the kids there. When we all go to a waterpark, it's BB.

 

[Caylin]

I have a love/hate thing with the wave pool. On one hand I really, really love it! I love bobbing up and down in the waves. But then the horn at TL blows and I realize that for a very petite lady who is 5'1" I am way too far out in the water and there are waaay too many people bigger than me coming my way!
I tend to favor the lazy rivers (my kind of speed) and bob in the waves when I'm in the real ocean.

 

[DisneyGeek2000]

I guess it doesn't bother me as we go to the Jersey beaches every summer and are used to swimming in the ocean - all of the kids are very good in the ocean.

 

[helenm29]

THAT WAS THE FUNNIEST THING I'VE READ IN AGES! What a wonderful sense of humour you have! I was laughing so hard the rest of the family wanted to read on.
Keep it up....PLEASE!

 

[Mecha Figment]

I can't stand wave pools i never go any deaper than ankle deep in them. I"m not a good swimmer and the waves frighten me. I have a great fear of large open spaces of water. Pools i can handle but I truely fear the ocean, especialy those that are so clear. I'm always afraid those waves are goign to drowned me in the wave pool or some kid goofing around is going to hold on, which has happend once and i almost didn't make it.

 

[Becky2005]

I can't help you but I understand completely.

Basically I'm freaked out about water parks in general, so I just don't go. I'm convinced one of my kids will drowned when I can't keep my eyes on all 4 of them at the same time. (Actually, my 5 year old is terrified of the water anyway so you wouldn't catch him at a water park - he didn't even go in the pool at the resort - he played on the beach with his dad. My 8 year old likes the water but not his head/hair getting wet, so not too worried about him going too deep or anything like that. Now, my littliest guy is a fish and and he LOVES the water so would be in over his head in a flash and probably think it was funny - which scares me to no end!)

 

[susan0326]

except for the wave pool! Give me the lazy river over the wave pool any day. I don't enjoy being beat by the water and having to keep up with kids who want to head straight for the deep end.

Susan

 

[AllyBri]

I'll never forget the first time, EVER, I was in the wave pool at TL

I hear the horn and this is what starts running through my head:

"Man this is cool...wow...look that swell...I wonder how they do that...why is everyone swimming away from it...omg...it's getting bigger...omg...there is a WALL OF BODIES COMING STRAIGHT AT ME...GET THE HECK OUTTA HERE...OUT OUT OUT...NOW NOW NOW...WHERE IS DH...WHO CARES...SAVE YOURSELF..."

at this point I think I've tackled like 4 kids and a nice English Guy (OY!) to get my body out of that wave pool...(ok - kidding - really, I didn't bash over kids...if I did they were bigger then me.)

Too funny
I hope the Tag Fairy reading this.

 

[mimif1]

I'm with everyone else.. The wave pool makes me a nervous wreck. When we went in May, I was in the shallow water with the baby while my DH and DS had the other kids in the deep water. A man and a little girl about 3 yr old were next to me. Then the horn blew and the man didn't know what that meant and got out of the water on one of those ledges. The little girl got knocked down and pushed up under the stone bench and couldn't get out because of the force of the water. I grabbed her and pulled her out and she's coughing and crying, scraped and bleeding all down her side and down her whole leg. The man was scared to death. It was awful! So, hold those little ones by the hand, even in the shallow water!

 

[BraveMom3]

I think I'll try the colored t-shirt idea - maybe a NEON color. I know when one of my children had bright green goggles, it was much easier to find him than the other two. Even when mine were smaller and played in the shallow area to the left of the main pool area, my oldest got knocked down by the wave action and lost skin off of his spine area about the size of a silver dollar.

 

[luv disney]

That was the funniest thing I've ever read, I was laughing so loud my maltese started barking like there was someone at the door.Pleae more stories!!!

 

[helens042266]

I am with a lot of you! We are going for 2 weeks in June and I was all ready to buy the ticket that lets you go to the water parks and then I started remembering our water park here in Illinois and how nervous I am about where my 3 kids are that I scrapped the whole idea! I love pools and swimming, but the thought of my littlest one in the wave pool makes me a nervous wreck. So instead of waterparks it is just more MK, MGM, AK and Epcot!! YEA!