I spent all of last week with Priya at the pool. It was a crash course of sorts, because she had a mini-vacation planned at my sister's house. They have a "swimming hole" or pond there, and it's very large, and very deep and the water is dense (can't see). So I took it upon myself to teach Priya how to swim. With gas prices, I couldn't really afford to take Priya to swimming lessons every day, so I thought back to my swimming lessons, and to the kids swimming lessons for two years in a row, from a couple of years ago.
What I determined for Priya, was that she needed to be able to show me that she could do certain things.
-bobbing (while taking a breath each time she came up)
-floating on her back
-floating on her front (dead man's float)
-kicking her legs while straight or barely bent
-demonstrating arm over ear movements to create movement
-playing a few games underwater
-swimming under water
-dog paddling
Priya amazed me. She did everything I asked her to do. She was nearly swimming 2 years ago.
She had an intense fear of swimming from way back, but whenever she took her mind off of swimming, but instead thought about playing in the water, she did well.
Last week when we first went to the pool, I was very shocked that she had seemed to have lost all of her swimming skills.
But then once I told her that she couldn't go to my sisters house (where the big pond is) without showing me she could swim and save herself, then started relearning her swim skills.
She was completely excited that she can swim now. Me too.
I'm so proud of her for overcoming her fears and just doing it.
Proud mama,
Jyotsna
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