Basically as the title says. Not really sure if to back off and try again in a few months or persevere and force her crying and panicing over the lessons.
To give some background my dd (now 8) has always hated swimming every since she was small. But I have made her going to swimming lessons on and off since she was 4.
She had the school lessons and didnt do particularly well. Although towards the end she was swimming well with floats.
I enrolled her again with some more council run lessons and to be fair she was doing ok until the last lesson when they had to go into the deep end with the teacher. They had those shark fins on and woggles to help them out. The teacher was with her all the time and swam with her holding on to her hand across the pool. The poor kid was terrified!
I booked her in for another set of 10 lessons but now she does not want to go. She cries and gets all panicky. Last week I had to bribe her to go with Moshi Monsters. I keep telling her that swimming is a very important lessons like maths etc, but I am not getting through.
Tomorrow is the next lesson and I know she will kick off saying she doesnt want to go into the deep end and is scared.
I really dont know whether to back off and get her into some private lessons where there is no deep end, so stick with it for the next 9 lessons!
I dont want to scare her, but at the same time I feel she needs to learn.
Help! thanks
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Possiblynot · 23/03/2014 14:49
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