Swimming solo
Last week, SPL graduated to the “transition” class at swimming which means he’s no longer in the “parent and me” class and will be learning more basic swimming skills. We lucked out too as the Wednesday class is empty so we have a private lesson for now :-).
Wednesday (7/2) was his first day in the new class and I spent half of it in the pool with him and half of it cheering him on from the side.
This week (7/9) he got to get in the pool by himself. I was a bit worried as he started saying “I don’t want to go swimming” 30 minutes before we even left for the pool! And he was crying — not the whining cry but his actual cry, with tears. And he cried all the way to the pool.
The extended crying did concern me but I kept reminding myself that he had been upset last week too, but when we got home, he said “I had fun” when I asked him what he thought about swimming. And I secretly had my swim suit on under my regular clothes so I was prepared (though he hadn’t seen me put it on :-).
I handed him off to Teacher Tracy when we arrived at the pool (she also has a 3 year old son 🙂 and 10 minutes into his lesson, he was high-fiving her and putting his face in the water by himself!
I didn’t take the camera as I wasn’t sure how it’d go but will try to snap some photos this week.