Brady did swim lessons this year for the first time. Last year, even with his floaty swim suit thing, he would not let go of me at all. Even if I only wanted to hold him out an arms length in front of me. He wanted to have me in a bear hug the whole time in the water.
So I was a little nervous as to what would happen when I took him to swim lessons.
He had another little girl in his class that was also a a little bit afraid of the water too. Their teacher had her work cut out for her!
Part of the problem in this was that it was pretty cold for about 4 days of his swim lessons. We had several storms blow through at night and in the morning it was a bit chilly and windy even though the sun was coming back out. I had to convince him to just stay in the water and move around a bit and it would be better.
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| The little wall flowers hanging on for dear life! |
I thought it would take a little longer but this is on the first day! He actually let go of the wall! It was shallow enough to touch so he was able to build his confidence a little bit and I think it helped him out a lot.
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| Walking along the wall without holding on! Big progress! |
Eventually, he was able to do this
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| Kicking with the kick board |
This was on the last day of their lesson.
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| Jumping into the deep end with his teacher catching him. |
He still wouldn't go under the water or try and kick by himself with the kick board but I am very pleased with the progress that he made. Now that he's not as scared of getting in the water and trying to stand by himself, we can go from there!
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