Kid is still stuck at Pro1, 2 years later at Goldfish

[Anonymous]

OP here. Thanks for all the suggestions. I'm in Montgomery County. Could someone recommend a place where we can switch to for swim team or a rec center. I don't know to swim either so all these terms are new to me. My husband knows to swim and he takes them for the classes. I go sometimes and saw that the the goldfish pool was so small - my kids are 5'1" and 5'2" tall. They started out in glider 1 almost two years ago (before that we had the private lessons 3 years and then husband took them to community pool 2 years). Finally now one has moved to Pro1 two weeks ago and the other to Pro2.

I will ask my husband to switch them to the rec center if that would be better.

[Anonymous]

I guess I should have said kid was stuck at Glider 1 and 2 for 2 years. I was worried it would be the same with the Pro1 and Pro2 and what we would do after that.

[Anonymous]

If you don’t know how to swim you really should find adult lessons. My husband didn’t and took lessons a couple of years ago to learn. If he fell into a pool before he probably would have drowned and now he can swim to the side and he can float.

[Anonymous]

Some kids don't like swimming OP, I was one of them. Turns out chlorine is a problem for me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:At that level, you need private lessons 2-3 times a week during the summer.

Not the OP but if you don't belong to a pool, this is really hard to arrange.

We belong to a summer pool and my teen has been giving lessons for years. For families who don’t belong, they add in the guest pass fee each lesson.

How does your teen advertise for this? I'd love this for my kid, but have no idea where to find this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks for all the suggestions. I'm in Montgomery County. Could someone recommend a place where we can switch to for swim team or a rec center. I don't know to swim either so all these terms are new to me. My husband knows to swim and he takes them for the classes. I go sometimes and saw that the the goldfish pool was so small - my kids are 5'1" and 5'2" tall. They started out in glider 1 almost two years ago (before that we had the private lessons 3 years and then husband took them to community pool 2 years). Finally now one has moved to Pro1 two weeks ago and the other to Pro2.

I will ask my husband to switch them to the rec center if that would be better.

Either join a private pool or the rec department has classes and outdoor summer teams. Honestly if they are past ten a summer team will not be fun if they cannot do most strokes legally and swim a 50.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Switch it up - find another swim class with more frequent lessons. With my younger kids. - my son never got tap tap roll over for months at GOldfish and they would never move him or do anything. We moved to a place where they have swim class at school and he learned with never a mention of tap tap roll over - we still mention it and laugh.

Same!! My son was stuck in Goldfish level 1 for 1.5 years, long after he could independently swim because he could not do the tap tap roll overs either. We also moved him to a different place and his moves up twice in the last 15 months. It was eroding his confidence.

My daughter stayed at Goldfish through their highest levels (whatever came after Pro 2) - it worked very well for her, but not for her brother.

[Anonymous]

The problem (partly) is you have him at Goldfish stuck in a dinky pool. He needs to be able to practice swimming longer lengths with less time at the wall waiting.

[Anonymous]

Try kids first with private swim lessons.

[Anonymous]

We did a private lesson where I asked the instructor to help him on a particular skillset, after also taking lessons for a year and not progressing at all. At the end of the lesson, the instructor gave us a good assessment as to why he couldn't master that skillset, and that was helpful. Basically, he needs more time in a pool. We are just focused on pool competency, not swim team level.