Ok. A quick post because it's late and I'm tired.
Well, I thought swim lessons couldn't get any worse. Then tonight, they threw all the kids in the deep end! Ok, they put life jackets on them first. But still! Can you picture your 3 year old in 7 foot-deep water with only a neck lifejacket holding her up?????
They start off by showing the "safe" way to enter the pool, i.e. sit on the side and just slide in. Everybody hops in ! Except for my two. One little boy even says something about it and it makes me want to holler "hey, that's rude!" But I don't. It seemed tonight like they took some of the more advanced kids out and put them into the other class. That was a good thing. Both Alpha and Beta got some one on one attention tonight. They needed it badly!
Both lifeguards got the girls in and helped them swim around. Alpha looked strained the entire time. But as we were leaving, she says the deep end was her favorite part and asks if we can go buy her a life jacket tonight after her shower. (we said no)
Beta didn't say much on the way home. She didn't say she was scared so I guess she's still ok. It was too funny, though. Once the life guard got her in the pool, she had Beta floating on her back and kicking her legs. Beta was holding her breath! Yes, above water. Alpha kept trying to "run" in the water and say she was swimming. She would never lean forward, only backward. The instructors were trying to get them to doggy paddle, but neither girl knew what they were talking about. We've got to go to the lake and maybe see some dogs in the water.
Anyway, the girls are still having fun. Alpha wants some "free time" in the water so we might try and go this weekend to practice what they've been learning.
In the meantime, 3 down, 5 to go!
1 comment:
Love it. =) I remember my own early swimming lessons at the Y. Once, when I was 4 or 5, the pool wasn't all the way full and we all "ran" in the water. The instructor let us think we were clever then we had to do the exercise again - swimming.
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