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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our 8&unders basically can’t make it down the lane unless they drag themselves via the gutter. Their parents are very hands-off annd don’t seem worried. I really feel the generational difference even though my kid is only a few years older- we are as overbearing and involved as they are indifferent. We would have had those kids in 5 days/week private lessons and asking the coach to put them in lane 2 away from the wall.

This is the group that was locked down while the kids were babies or very young toddlers so it was hard to get into the swing of signing up for swim lessons and getting out of the house. My friend with a rising 1st grader has said as much.[/quote]

Uh, you don't need 5 days a week lessons for a 6 or 7 year old in order to get them off the wall. You just need a coach who properly encourages and does endurance swims at the end of each lesson until they can do it. My kid was in weekly lessons and did "two minute swims" every week until she could competently complete the length of the pool without stopping. If the kids are getting good technique training, this happens on its own because once the stroke "clicks" the kids realize it's actually easier and more pleasurable to just swim the length of the pool instead of hanging off the wall.

Also, my kid was 2 when Covid hit and did not even start swim lessons until she was 4 because the pandemic totally upended our plans. So at 4 wouldn't even put her face in the water initially and starting from scratch. By six she had a clean freestyle and backstroke. She's seven now and her breast stroke is also legal, only just start working on fly. She's super fast in free. We are not overbearing, she's just a good swimmer and very coachable -- listens and is able to make small adjustments and doesn't get frustrated and just really likes being in the water.

So I think your pool just has a group of 8&Us who aren't there yet, but also at that age isn't that the whole point of summer swim? By the end of the summer they will be better. That's the developmental group for a reason. Calm down.[/quote]

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