4 yo DS has been having swimming lessons since last September. He had a fear of the water when he first started and wouldn’t get in the water on his first lesson. After that the teacher encouraged him in and it had been going well, sometimes he did cry when he first went in but cheered up after 2 minutes and thoroughly enjoyed the lesson after that.
His original teacher changed at Christmas and the lessons haven’t been as good since then- more crying and then the last 2 weeks (including today) he’s totally refused to get in the water at all. Today he spent the whole lesson sitting on the poolside. I noticed today that the lessons don’t seem as fun and all the other kids did was get in and out of the water.
Before now I’ve said that swimming is an essential life skill and he needs to learn but now I’m leaning towards pulling him out and trying him again in a year or so. He’s not learning anything sitting on the side of the pool and he should be moving forwards not backwards. But AIBU? Should we persist?