Teddy declared his swim lesson was his favorite part of all-day camp, because there was a counselor there to help him and he could touch the bottom in the shallow end "on his feet, not his tippy toes!"
He did not like free swim because he went all the way underwater at the end of the slide. Though a counselor helped him right away, it was scary.
He just started jumping into the pool by himself last weekend - and that's wearing a swim vest so he's underwater for just a second then bobs right back up again (if he goes underwater at all). And he won't jump by himself if I'm not quite close. He's also recently started "swimming" part of the time without the swim vest, but with a kickboard.
(He doesn't think the kickboards at camp look like real kickboards, which we assume means they don't look like his own, non-standard board.)
I want him to learn to swim, and I also want him to love swimming. So we're being very casual about the whole thing. And yet... I want him to swim! I don't remember ever not knowing how to swim (though my form has deteriorated to the point that one might easily guess that I never learned :sigh: ). We've succeeded, so far, with his love of swimming. So that's good, right?
His camp doesn't go for swim vests and bubbles/floaties. I hope he'll gain some confidence and skill this week for water locomotion.
We've decided he'll return for full-day camp the week after next ('cause I'm on vacation next week, so we'll be staycating hither and yon), so he'll have another shot then.
And if it doesn't happen, oh well.
Dad, wanna come to Longmeadow for a few days and teach your grandson to swim?
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