My little fella is 4 and we started swimming classes about a month ago. All went fine up to last week. There are about 10 kids in the pool - a teacher on the side and a teacher in the pool. The teacher in the pool is different every week which I know bothers him but thats out of my control.
He is not afraid of the water. Gets in the pool fine and lines up with everyone else. When the teacher tries to give him instructions he refuses to make eye contact, lookd in the opposite direction and won't reply to their questions. Both instructors spent alot of time trying to persuade him to cross the pool, kick his legs etc. He was having none of it. 10 minutes b4 the end of class he starts to cry and I took him out as he was really disrupting the whole class.
Like alot of 4 year olds, he takes a few minutes to get used to people and then he will chat away. He is a bright kid but is really stubborn. The more you try to coerce him the more he digs his heels in. We have class today and I just dont know what to do. His twin brother is in the same class and is doing fine.
Do I let him start and tell teachers if he doesn't cooperate, take him out? Do I get him to just sit and watch with me - the point being, the more he knows I want him to cooperate, the less likely he will.Help!