To think DD should get swim badges more often?

[Tiredtoday22]

DD6 started swim lessons 2 years ago. In the first 6 months the badges were frequent. However in the last 18 months she's only received 2 and it's nearly a year since her last one (5m). She can competently swim 10m and the lessons advertise that they work through skills badges alongside distance awards. AIBU to think a 6 year old needs badges more often to keep motivated? She's rapidly loosing interest in her lessons despite making good progress. I know if she felt she was working towards a badge she would be more enthusiastic.

Sorry if I've missed it but do you have access to an online app which tracks her progress and does the teacher test skills every few lessons and update the app (so that you know how far she is working towards the next level?). Both my kids got stuck around the stage your dd is at. Talk to the teacher eg. Ask what she can be working on outside of lessons and you will find they suddenly get on top of assessing.

Having said that one of my son's swim teachers has never put him up a group. If he then gets a sub teacher, they invariably assess them and move them up to the next stage.

If you feel like she's stuck, the half term crash courses are pretty good at progressing them.

No they don't. Olympic marathon swimmers swim 10km. Your child swimming 22 miles over 12 weeks is brilliant but it isn't 10 miles in 1 go which presumably you would have to do for the fictional 10 mile badge.