teach my son to swim

We are not 100% there, but he is swimming to the steps underwater and jumping in by his self. Yay! I live on the coast – so, I am so happy to have knocked this out. Not bad for a 2 year old.
I actually did something on my list. Call the press.

We have finished our lesson. Now we are planning on doing things that mean going in the water – like a play date at Waterland.

I took him to his lesson today – it’s not so much swimming lessons as water awareness and confidence in the water. He is too young to support himself in the pool yet so we have to just work on the happy water baby stuff.

Unfortunately I was suffereing stomach cramps on Saturday so my husband took him for his first lesson. Apparently he loved it and was singled out to be an example several times during the lesson. Since we have had in a pool 3 times and he loves it, even when he goes under briefly. He has no fear of water and will happily climb in to a pool, gets a little scared when he goes past the point where his feet touch the bottom, but as long as he can feel someone holding on to him he is ok.
We are well on our way to a natural swimmer I think.

Booked Logan in for his lessons start on December 23rd 2006.
He loves the water and we are going to the waterland pools next weekend, but I want him to learn to swim

Ethan is taking swimming lessons!! He has been to five lessons and has three more.

First, he didn’t want to go into the pool. Then the neighbor who is the same age came over and his competitive nature kicked in. He started to love the pool and wanted to go in every day for a few weeks. Jumping in, going under to pick up objects from the bottom, floating, swimming dog paddle. Now he’s back to avoiding the pool.

And, he refuses to go into the summer camp pool because they don’t have a heater. So hard not to get emotionally involved in it.