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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agreed with pushing the child to take the swim lessons.  Had the same issue with DS after he took a break from swimming when the pandemic first started.  Was miserable for a few months until we got back into a routine (and still not DS's favorite thing).  On top of that, we had bad experiences with some teachers.  Thus, one piece of advice is to try to pick your teacher carefully and switch if you need to. Having a bad teacher set us back and made things even worse. That being said, a routine is important and makes things more palatable.  Thus, don't switch just because things are not absolutely perfect.  [/quote]

I'm curious if your kid has actually learned to swim from this approach?

My kids didn't do swim lessons, we just played and had fun and they both swam well before their fourth birthdays.  I've never known a kid who learned from something that needed to be forced like that.  Miserable kids don't learn.

I agree that swimming is an important life skill, but OP's option of taking her kid to the pool seems far more likely to end up with a kid who can swim well enough to join a summer pre-team, or keep practicing at camp or whatever.  [/quote]

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