DS age 6 swimming to bottom of 3.5m pool!

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DH has taken our son aged 6 swimming today and son dived off the deep end and swam 3.5m to touch the bottom of the pool!

Pretty fearless it seems but am I being unreasonable that it's not that safe for his age?

He's equivalent of working in Stage 4 group at his weekly class. Has been taught some beginner dives, but not in water anywhere near that deep.

Happy to be flames just keen on opinions either way.

I can remember getting down to the bottom of the diving pool and back when I was a kid, probably older than 6 but a lot easier when you're young.
It's safe providing he's supervised and also a lot of fun trying to get there 😁

Thanks all, sounds like I don't need to worry!!!

My nephew used to swim at the bottom of the pool from a very young age and now swims for his county team.

He is happy dong it and your DH is with him watching that he doesn't have any problems then I would let him continue

What everyone else said basically OP :) Your DH is there. He isn't jumping in rivers.
I have a waterbaby.
DS2 was 20 months old when his swimming instructor said I didn't need to be in the pool with him any more, having only had about 8 lessons (DS1 was 4 when I stopped going in with him and he was in there from 4 months old)
I wasn't entirely prepared to leave him just then, but he didn't care one jot. He is just super-happy and confident in water. He's 10 now and on the local swim team.

We used to compete to see who could dive deeper at that age - 3.5m is pretty impressive!

@Cyberlibre Oh yes. Because it was clearly a joke. Ha. Ha

It may surprise you to know this but teachers (such as myself) generally have the brains to work out that if a father is taking his child swimming during the day that they are either a) on holiday given that it's the middle of february or are b) home educated.

Evidently you struggle with this common sense, never mind eh...keep up the brain gym and maybe you'll get there one day.

@OkayThenIGuess maybe I need to sign him up for diving classes then!