What age did you stop your child's swiming lessons?

[dontdillydally]

just wondering as my DD hates going I have to drag her there wasc Sat morning.

She is level 6 and can confidentially swim

I wanted her to finish all levels so that she has some kind of achievement but think to put her in the next level where Ive heard its all about lots of swimming rather than techniques would push her over the edge!

BTW she is 7.5yrs

I rarely take DDs swimming either as all they want to do is splash me in the baby pool. It's cold, I'm not swimming to get fit, I'm just stood there freezing while they have a great time. Dont judge me!

To the OP. DDs are 7 and 4 and they still do lessons but they love it. It keeps them fit and is well worth it imo. I wills top when they get bored or have an alternative club they would prefer to do more.

DD1 was 7, DD2 was 6 - both could swim 300+ metres by this time, had good breaststroke, backstroke and front crawl and basic butterfly, could dive into deep water and pick up a brick at 6 ft, tread water, float and scull. Subsequent lessons for both were geared towards competitive swimming and they weren't interested - they both want to do rookie lifesavers but DD2 is too young so am waiting until they can do it together.

We still swim every weekend and have done since they were about 8 weeks old, I chase them around (keeps me fit) and race them - but we're all fish in our family.

that's the whole POINT of lessons, you pay someone so that you don't have to get in the pool

Talkinpeace - did you mean to sound so unbelieveably smug and patronising?

Plenty of parents don't go swimming with their children for all sorts of reasons. How do you know the 'yummy mummies' don't take their kids swimming? It may just be that they don't choose to go with them to the filthy public pool

I don't take mine swimming as I'm allergic to chlorine. And they can both swim better than me now anyway....

DD (9 in a couple of weeks) goes to lessons atm as she wants to pass stage 5 so that she can go to lifesaving sessions.

I definitely wouldn't take her if she wasn't keen to go, don't see the point in pressing it really if a child can swim well enough to be safe.

Mine stopped when they could swim 400m and had got the level 2 water skills/survival badge. I think that varied from age 6 - 8 depending on which child. We all still swim a lot for fun.

thanks for your comments

Its te distance, lengths that puts her off she doesnt seem to have the engery to keep at it

she can confidentially swim 50m, nearly dive, summersault under water, snorkle, dive for a brick etc...