Need to cancel swimming lesson

sheramber

Do you or any other relative swim and could take her to local pool that has a shappow end?

My son would not put his face in the water and while the thers learned front crawl he learned breast stroke.

He practiced putting his face in the water in the bath to get used to it.

Aylesbury_Duck

Emmia said:

The_Unready said:

Emmia said:

Swimming is the one skill that can save your life. I also hated swimming when I first started but my mum (who can't swim) made me go to lessons even though I cried etc.  

Swimming is now one of my favourite activities, and I only stopped lessons after doing all the badges, life saving etc.

As a parent you should grit your teeth,  take her back to the classes and get her to learn. Leave her with the teacher who will have seen this all before.

I'm sorry if that seems cruel. Kids also often cry at the door when they go to nursery, but the moment the parent leaves the tears dry and they start engaging and having fun... But I can see how this is difficult.

I think that there are quite a few other skills apart from swimming that can save your life 😃

Could you list them?

Treading water
First aid (on yourself)
Making fire
Basic survival skills
Unloading the dishwasher before your wife gets home

Emmia

Aylesbury_Duck said:

Emmia said:

The_Unready said:

Emmia said:

Swimming is the one skill that can save your life. I also hated swimming when I first started but my mum (who can't swim) made me go to lessons even though I cried etc.  

Swimming is now one of my favourite activities, and I only stopped lessons after doing all the badges, life saving etc.

As a parent you should grit your teeth,  take her back to the classes and get her to learn. Leave her with the teacher who will have seen this all before.

I'm sorry if that seems cruel. Kids also often cry at the door when they go to nursery, but the moment the parent leaves the tears dry and they start engaging and having fun... But I can see how this is difficult.

I think that there are quite a few other skills apart from swimming that can save your life 😃

Could you list them?

Treading water
First aid (on yourself)
Making fire
Basic survival skills
Unloading the dishwasher before your wife gets home

Treading water is something you learn as part of learning to swim properly.

The next 3 come if you go to school or scouts/guides or watch your parents applying plasters etc. you don't really need formal lessons.

I don't have a wife, but I presume the last one is tongue in cheek. 

Alderbank

Does @Aylesbury_Duck have a wife?

i have always assumed that Aylesbury_Duck is a wife and is married to Aylesbury_Drake!

Is my illusion shattered?

Ergates

Emmia said:

Aylesbury_Duck said:

Emmia said:

The_Unready said:

Emmia said:

Swimming is the one skill that can save your life. I also hated swimming when I first started but my mum (who can't swim) made me go to lessons even though I cried etc.  

Swimming is now one of my favourite activities, and I only stopped lessons after doing all the badges, life saving etc.

As a parent you should grit your teeth,  take her back to the classes and get her to learn. Leave her with the teacher who will have seen this all before.

I'm sorry if that seems cruel. Kids also often cry at the door when they go to nursery, but the moment the parent leaves the tears dry and they start engaging and having fun... But I can see how this is difficult.

I think that there are quite a few other skills apart from swimming that can save your life 😃

Could you list them?

Treading water
First aid (on yourself)
Making fire
Basic survival skills
Unloading the dishwasher before your wife gets home

Treading water is something you learn as part of learning to swim properly.

The next 3 come if you go to school or scouts/guides or watch your parents applying plasters etc. you don't really need formal lessons.

I don't have a wife, but I presume the last one is tongue in cheek. 

The criteria was: "skills apart from swimming that can save your life" not "things you need lessons for", so that isn't really a valid counterpoint.

Also, treading water isn't the same as swimming, someone can learn to tread water without subsequently learning to swim.

Aylesbury_Duck

Emmia said:

Aylesbury_Duck said:

Emmia said:

The_Unready said:

Emmia said:

Swimming is the one skill that can save your life. I also hated swimming when I first started but my mum (who can't swim) made me go to lessons even though I cried etc.  

Swimming is now one of my favourite activities, and I only stopped lessons after doing all the badges, life saving etc.

As a parent you should grit your teeth,  take her back to the classes and get her to learn. Leave her with the teacher who will have seen this all before.

I'm sorry if that seems cruel. Kids also often cry at the door when they go to nursery, but the moment the parent leaves the tears dry and they start engaging and having fun... But I can see how this is difficult.

I think that there are quite a few other skills apart from swimming that can save your life 😃

Could you list them?

Treading water
First aid (on yourself)
Making fire
Basic survival skills
Unloading the dishwasher before your wife gets home

Treading water is something you learn as part of learning to swim properly.

The next 3 come if you go to school or scouts/guides or watch your parents applying plasters etc. you don't really need formal lessons.

I don't have a wife, but I presume the last one is tongue in cheek. 

The last one is the most serious of them all.

I was thinking about more serious things than applying plasters.  A plaster is unlikely to be life-saving, whereas applying a tourniquet or adopting a position in the event of a suspected heart attack might well be.

Treading water (or more importantly, floating) can be taught to someone who can't swim.  It's not dependent upon being able to swim.

Emmia

Aylesbury_Duck said:

Emmia said:

Aylesbury_Duck said:

Emmia said:

The_Unready said:

Emmia said:

Swimming is the one skill that can save your life. I also hated swimming when I first started but my mum (who can't swim) made me go to lessons even though I cried etc.  

Swimming is now one of my favourite activities, and I only stopped lessons after doing all the badges, life saving etc.

As a parent you should grit your teeth,  take her back to the classes and get her to learn. Leave her with the teacher who will have seen this all before.

I'm sorry if that seems cruel. Kids also often cry at the door when they go to nursery, but the moment the parent leaves the tears dry and they start engaging and having fun... But I can see how this is difficult.

I think that there are quite a few other skills apart from swimming that can save your life 😃

Could you list them?

Treading water
First aid (on yourself)
Making fire
Basic survival skills
Unloading the dishwasher before your wife gets home

Treading water is something you learn as part of learning to swim properly.

The next 3 come if you go to school or scouts/guides or watch your parents applying plasters etc. you don't really need formal lessons.

I don't have a wife, but I presume the last one is tongue in cheek. 

The last one is the most serious of them all.

I was thinking about more serious things than applying plasters.  A plaster is unlikely to be life-saving, whereas applying a tourniquet or adopting a position in the event of a suspected heart attack might well be.

Treading water (or more importantly, floating) can be taught to someone who can't swim.  It's not dependent upon being able to swim.

But crucially would probably be taught in a swimming lesson.

Personally I learnt how to properly tread water when I did life-saving badges, long after I learnt to swim - and I could swim very well at that point.

Vectis

As some others have said, take her swimming yourself with both of you in the pool.

It doesn't need to be a 'swimming' lesson, just fun in the water.

Get her used to that and swimming will come naturally if it's a fun event.

Later, if she wants, she can have proper swimming lessons, but for now it should just be fun.

Jumblebumble

Emmia said:

The_Unready said:

Emmia said:

Swimming is the one skill that can save your life. I also hated swimming when I first started but my mum (who can't swim) made me go to lessons even though I cried etc.  

Swimming is now one of my favourite activities, and I only stopped lessons after doing all the badges, life saving etc.

As a parent you should grit your teeth,  take her back to the classes and get her to learn. Leave her with the teacher who will have seen this all before.

I'm sorry if that seems cruel. Kids also often cry at the door when they go to nursery, but the moment the parent leaves the tears dry and they start engaging and having fun... But I can see how this is difficult.

I think that there are quite a few other skills apart from swimming that can save your life 😃

Could you list them?

Looking both ways before crossing roads

Jumblebumble

Nushi said:

Hi everyone! 

I just wanted some advice. I recently enrolled my 4 yr old daughter for swimming lesson. She loved the sea when we were on holiday. On her first lesson, she was so scared and would not stop crying. She says that water is splashing on her face and the pool is too deep. She was also scared to drown. Now she dsnt want to go anymore. 

I have already paid for a block of 10 lessons and it says no refunds or transfer on website. 

The teacher also kept telling her enough crying and ask me to get her out as she couldn’t get through to her. 

Can anyone advise me? Thank you

I feel your pain having had a child who was traumatised by an incompetent swimming teacher and refused to go in any pool
They were due to go to a school camp where swimming was on the menu
We took them to a different pool 
The teacher there  assured us that he would have junior swimming by the time camp was due and much to my surprise it happened.
Ask the swimming pool for a different teacher