Well, all this may be the case. However, swimming is an important life skill so I decided lets do this again.
Especially since most kids his age can already swim a little bit.
We have been at swim lessons. The first - he was definitely anxious.
Now, 2 weeks later, he is playing around in the shallow kids pool (basically a ramp that goes from 0" to 2.5 feet) all by himself. He is floating on the noodle all by himself. He will go underwater just to play around and stand himself back up out of the water. His teacher says he will swim like 1 ft by himself and can push off of the wall.
Today, he decided to spend an extra 1.5 hrs after swim lesson paddling around. 2 hours all told in the pool all by himself (with me watching with hawk eyes). And I had to make him get out because I was hungry and now we were well over 2 hrs late for lunch. You must feed mommy before she gets cranky. It is a known rule in this house.
Is this the same kid? Goes to show - Michael is not gonna learn something until he is good and ready to do it. Since we are not proactive about swimming, it is partly our fault. But frankly, I am not big on pushing things on Michael when he does not want to learn it. While he was happy to play and go to swimming, he was not interested in learning it quickly and efficiently.
This leads me to an interesting fact about Michael - when he does not want to learn something, it is like pulling teeth to teach him (like reading - which he is getting better at!). But when he WANTs to learn something, the baby cat is fast at picking it up. Now just to figure out how to motivate him. That is the good question here as his parent.
Thoughts?
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