We recently moved my son to a new swimming school because previously he had been in a class of 9 kids and spent the whole time pissing about! He is now in a class of 3 with 2 adults. At first this was so much better. He was listening and taking part and learnt more in the first few weeks than he did in a year at the other pool. However the last few weeks he has gone back to old habits.... constantly under water, not listening, putting no effort in etc. It is so embarrassing and frustrating. Generally he is pretty well behaved and has no issues with behaviour at school. It's seems that the slightly more relaxed teaching style at swimming makes him think he can get away with murder. Week after week I remind him of the expectations and he just reverts back to messing about! He is currently upstairs crying because he has missed out on a chocolate from the tree and is having his dinner and going straight to bed..my husband is livid and wants to just cancel. I want him to learn to swim but at the moment it feels like we are just throwing money away. I've asked the teachers to be strict with him because as soon as you give him an inch he takes a mile! I just don't know how to get it through to him! He nods and says the right thing and then gets in the pool and does the complete opposite!