We decided it was way past time that we put Emmy in swimming lessons. The other kids have always taken swimming lessons from about age 2-7. Well Emmy is 4 and we are just getting started. We are around water so much as a family that this is a really important skill that our kids know. Turns out we were excited about swimming and Emmy hated everything about it. The water made her cold, she wanted a parent to come in, she just likes swimming with a lifejacket and the list goes on and on. The first few weeks were pretty rough and a teacher had to peel her off of me while she was screaming "HELP ME, HELP ME". If you didn't know what was going on you would have thought that she was being abducted by a stranger.
This continued for 6 of the 8 weeks and on the 7th and 8th week she did ok but by then the session was over. Since, she had made progress and at least stopped crying we should have continued but I needed a break from dragging in a screaming kid. I guess we will try next spring.
Don't let this smile fool you!
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