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[quote=Anonymous]My 6 year old is still terrified of swimming - won't even take showers or pour water on his head. I've tried lessons and he never makes much progress. He's literally only gone under water completely once in his life, and that was when he slipped in the pool when he was wading about waste deep. Now he's old enough that he'll refuse to do camps or lessons he doesn't want to do, so I don't think group lessons will work. I think he'd make progress 1:1 with a teacher who was really engaging and good with anxious kids, but it seems basically impossible to find 1:1 lessons in DC proper at any rate of reliability and frequency to make a difference ... So what, do I just give up until he gets old enough to decide for himself he wants to swim? I myself am a capable swimmer and have been trying to get him into the pool since he was a baby, and he'd just cling to me terrified. [/quote]
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