Summer came...and it was time to try and help Jack recover from his traumatic swimming lessons from last year.
Poor little dude...he wants to like the water...he's just so nervous.
I had no expectation of him really learning how to swim, but I really just wanted him to get more comfortable and confident in the water. We can build from there later...but, without that...there will never be any learning how to swim. We signed him up for 2 weeks of lessons at Riverside with the Griffin boys.
So...we were back in the pool...and the Batman swimsuit was back with us!
(Jack hates the bright sunlight. This day, he forgot his own sunglasses and had no problem sporting mine!)
Awww...here he has his own...
Jack was pretty nervous at first, but he got right in, and took a quick liking to the stairs.
He tended to retreat back when he felt he was out of his comfort zone, but luckily, he had a great teacher- Ellie- who was patient and understanding of his fear.
The other kids were cute...cheering him off the steps!
Bless his heart. There were only a couple of days out of the two weeks where he broke down a bit, but the rest of the time he was a trooper. He tried things he has previously been afraid of, and negotiated his way out of the rest :).
There was a lot of "baby tiny" negotiating with Ellie.
A couple of days, we stayed after to swim for a while...
And this was always the result.
Jack will now blow bubbles in the water, get wet up to his ears (not full submersion just yet), kick on his stomach, jump into you from the side of the pool, and play unassisted in up to 3 feet of water.
These sound like really rudimentary skills, but...if you knew just how scared he is of falling in the water like he did in last year's lessons, you'd know this is BIG.
Best of all, he likes to go the pool!
We'll keep working, and hopefully this little stud will conquer this fear once and for all.
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