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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. We have a neighborhood pool right across the street and could go daily if that helped. We already go weekly. It seems like when we want her to do something she thinks it's a bad thing and will refuse. We know she's sensitive so we go slow.

We were able to finally get her to be okay with a babysitter by letting the babysitter dress up as Elsa and Anna and bribe her with candy. No amount of bribery was going to get her near the pool today. [/quote]

12:17 again.  Swim lessons were a complete failure at age 3 for DS.   We did spend a lot of the time at our neighborhood pool when he was 4 and 5, and those summers, I hired a lifeguard to give him private lessons.  I remember when he was 4, the thought of swim lessons did send him into tears again but he did get over it and learned to swim a little bit.  When he was 5, he was wayyyy better about the summer swim lessons with a (different) life guard and learned how to swim that year.  Then he did group lessons that year and the next year he joined swim team at age 6 (and ended up loving it so much he now swims year round.)

Definitely just go to the pool and hang out and let him have fun in the water without pushing him to learn how to swim.  Puddle jumpers, baby pools, lots of toys, that's how we did it.  
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