Swim Lessons Part II

I posted earlier about Kate's swim lessons and how much she loved them. Well... Last week she would NOT get into the pool. I was so frustrated because she loved them for the first three times, but now she was screaming and wanting me to hold her! I tried bribing her with all sorts of things, but she didn't care. I told her she could go in the water and listen to Chris and have fun (her scary looking teacher as some of you have commented!). She told me "Chris not fun." What?! Then, I asked her if she wanted to go to swim lessons or get a spanking. She chose the spanking. My, oh my. We didn't stay for the rest of the lessons. We went home and I was really annoyed with her.

As some of you know she LOVES the water and is like a fish so I couldn't figure out why she wouldn't even get into the pool. So fast forward to the next swim lesson and I had all sorts of ideas of how I would get her to go in the water for her lesson. I showed her previous videos from her first day of swimming lessons so she could see that she was having fun and I talked up Chris and how fun swimming lessons were. Well, we go to the swim lessons and she is instantly scared and emotional. I try putting her in the water and Chris actually took her, but she started screaming and I went to go sit down. Chris let her go after a minute of trying to distract her and she wanted me to hold her again. Long story short, she eventually put her feet in the water and then class was over. You would think she would be fine with class being over, but no she starts to cry again "I want more". I can't win with her. :) There was "free swim" after her lessons so we stayed and I let her swim for half an hour. And of course, she loved that. The other Mom's were commenting that obviously she loves water!

This morning we had swim lessons and she went in! (Granted, I had her favorite blue gummy sharks in my purse- she only got them if she went in the pool for swim lessons.) She was still wandering off and I kept reminding her to stay with her class, but at least she went in with no tears. I've decided though that she must be scared of Chris because whenever he tries to talk to her she walks away from him. Ha! He did get her to come to him so he could help her learn to float on her back by asking to see her painted fingernails. It was pretty clever of him. So only 3 more lessons left and then we're done with swimming lessons. I hope she enjoys the rest of them. We shall see...