We are in the middle of Noah's first week of swim lessons and to make a long story short, it is not going swimmingly. :(
To be sure, there is SOME growth happening...
But it seems like there is a lot more of this
and this
happening. :(
Please, Lord, please let today be better. Spazzing out Noah and stressing out Mommy are not a good way to welcome summer!
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One of the last posts someone had made on your FB status makes a lot of sense....expose him lots and lots to water this summer so he's comfortable around it. And, if his instructor is agreeable to it, you may just need to not be there, as hard as that sounds. He may do better with just her.
Hang in there...on the last day he will probably tell you how much fun he had.
I know, I kept reading that on the post but I didn't want to discourage the input so I didn't say anything, but it truly is not about me being there. I'm up on a second floor balcony overlooking the pool because this teacher also insists that parents not be around and asks us to stay up there. But just to test the theory, I might sit in the car tomorrow with Anna instead and see if that makes a difference. He'll be a worry wart anyway. he's just so afraid of sinking!
Today's lesson went MUCH better by the way, but I am exhausted at all the build-up we had to do to prep him and all the praying and all the scripture singing and all the reassuring him that was required over the last 24 hours! Wow. And still he cried several times, but the big difference today was that he obeyed while he cried and he worked HARD to quell the crying and was able to pull it back together each time. He was teetering with tears about the whole time, but he managed to control it. Fingers crossed again for tomorrow and Friday.
Maybe a next class with a few students to "peer pressure" him along would be good too. I'm glad I had Brooklyn do a private swim lesson last time but she wasn't ever afraid of the water...so she just needed to be taught to swim. But this time around she was sooo afraid of going in the deep end and having to *dive* farther down than she's used to in the shallow end. But the peer pressure and watching the other bigger kids do it has proven a positive encouragement to her. She's nervous each time, but she does it...and we're only done with day 3....are noah's classes private? Does she think him seeing other kids do the lessons would be beneficial?
It's just him and another little girl.
I have him signed up in a class format at the end of June, but I don't expect that will go well now. May have to postpone?
I just don't know. One day at a time around here with this. :S
Oh how I have been there. I think I have an old archived post on my desserted blog, summer 2009. Jacob was a nightmare but got over it after a bit and did well. Funny though it didn't all click until we went on vacation a few months later.
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