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[quote=Anonymous]I hear you, OP.

My son is 5 and he has been super fearful of the water all his life.   It started turning around for us this winter when we went to Florida and he finally got comfortable enough to just stand in the pool holding onto the side.  After that I took him and my younger son every weekend to the local public indoor pool by ourselves to just play in the water for recreational swim, and I signed him up for swim lessons. We also joined our neighborhood swim team and he joined the pre-team.  We go to the pool almost every day after work and as much as we can on the weekends.  He can now swim about 10 strokes in a row by himself.  He still needs a lot of work but he has made great strides in learning how to swim.  He also can’t ride a bike without training wheels so that is next on our list.  It sucks because my husband is pretty f’ing lazy and will always find a reason why he can’t go outside and play with our kids, so I am basically on my own in teaching them these things. I did some google searches and it looks like the National Park Service has a learn to ride bike program that I am going to check out.

I think it would be really helpful if you take your son to the pool as much as humanly possible and get in the water with him to get him practice his swimming.  I agree you may need to go to a different pool so he doesn’t know anyone so he won’t be embarrassed or intimidated. It is a big undertaking but both you and he can do it. 
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