Fimmin

We had to move to the indoor pool because of thunder! You can see from Carly's little hands and from how her teacher is standing that the inside pool was so cold for them.
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That's the only picture I have of the lesson though, because Carly spent most of the time screaming about not wanting to swim "that far" or that the water was too cold or that the goggles didn't fit...I didn't even know what to think. The last time it was her turn, she finally got it together and at least tried to do the breathing and big arms, but this was after two cute boy teachers spent twenty minutes sitting with her and telling her she could do it. Don't tell Paul that part.

At one point I asked her teacher if I should leave the pool deck so I wouldn't distract Carly, but her teacher said this was how Carly was during lessons. She was very patient and matter of fact about it, which I appreciated, but I feel so bad because I had no idea that Carly was going through that every day. I thought that if a kid was going to freak out, it would be the first couple of lessons and then they'd be fine on the last day...not the other way around. Her report card did say that she'd attained the skills necessary for the next level, but she's not swimming as well as she was after lessons last year, and it's all because of this newfound timidness. I just don't know what it's about, and because I'm a mom, of course I'm convinced that we're Doing Something Wrong.

Soooo anyway, we're doing another session of swim for the next two weeks and we'll see how it goes. I'm prepared to just keep putting her little landlubber behind in lessons as long as we're here and as long as there are spaces available and in the meantime I'm going to probably be a huge dork and do a lot of research into ways to help a kid gain confidence. Oh wait, aren't sports (such as SWIMMING) supposed to do that????? =)

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