Ds2 started to swim by himself when had just turned 3. Not knowing what to do next with him i started taking him to parent & toddler swimming lessons. These turned out to be mainly water confidence classes but we carried on going mostly because being in the parent & toddler classes means that when your child is old enough to go into the learn to swim scheme they don't go on the waiting list.
Now ds2 is 4.5 and on a good day can swim 15 metres and is just starting to learn proper front crawl arms etc - we go swimming for fun once a week and if he wants to I try to teach him stuff.
I was delighted to be told that he was allowed to start the learn to swim scheme slightly early. He was put in a level one class and at the first lesson was the only one swimming without a woggle/noodley thingy.
The swimming teacher said after that first lesson that they would give him a couple of weeks to settle in then move him up to a more appropriate level.
At the second lesson he was using a noodle (he told me they were all told to take one) and he was doing stuff he has been able to do for more than a year without any floats etc.
I emailed the teacher just to say that when she moves him up a class it is ok if it is not on the same day. She emailed back to say that he will just stay in the same class for now.
I am a bit at him spending yet another term being encouraged to blow bubbles the water and bob up and down to get his face wet... I was looking forward to him starting to learn the strokes properly which is what he needs.
I can't say anything though, can I? Because then i will be one of THOSE mothers who insist that their child is soooo much better than the others even though he is
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Swimming lessons - I'm going to look like a pushy Mum if I say something, aren't I?
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Wallace · 19/05/2011 21:25
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