Your children desperately want to go swimming, but you have very severe body-consciousness issues in regards to your weight?

If possible, I think it's great to show children confidence and self-love. They learn how to feel about their bodies partially by watching their parents. I also think it's ideal to teach kids to think about what their bodies can DO (i.e.

Swim) as opposed to what their bodies LOOK like. The great thing about swimming is also that your body will be under water. :) If you can endure the trip from the locker room to the pool, you're in the clear.

I've also found that locker rooms at pools are no beauty pageant. Many people take water aerobics, etc. , and there are all sorts of bodies at the pool. Few people feel great in a bathing suit, but I would definitely try to take them swimming.

I would squeeze myself into a bathing suit and take them swimming. A strategically placed towel around your waist can hide a multitude of sins. :) Besides the pool is probably full of moms all feeling exactly the same way you do.

I would take them, but it's not necessary to wear a bathing suit. You could just wear shorts and a shirt, and sit on the sidelines. You could also wear a cover up so you wouldn't be showing too much skin.

Yes, just put a Tshirt and shorts over your bathing suit.

Issues about what, I can gaurantee yoiu there will always be someone fatter at the pool who wears something to show it and thinks they look great. Go to NY and see the 300lb. Women in spandex walking down the street and you'll never worry again.

I'd take them, but I wouldn't go swimming myself. Just because they want to go doesn't mean I have to be in the war with them I'd put on a shirt and a pair of shorts (or a skirt or pants), sit by the pool on a lounge chair and watch them. I'd possibly take some headphones.

This might even be a smart thing -- I imagine it'd be a lot easier to pay attention to them when you're on land and relatively still.

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