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[quote=Anonymous]I do read now. He is seven and a strong swimmer. He’s also risk-averse and very compliant. Generally he just likes to swim laps. So what I do is watch him as he pushes off glance up once when he’s halfway across the pool read a little bit more and then glance up again as he hits the end of the pool because he always turns around to look at me for affirmation. I don’t believe he could drown in between each of those things because I’m looking up at least every 15 seconds. It still feels incredibly relaxing compared to the kind of vigilance I had to have a couple of years ago. I didn’t learn to swim until I was 12 and so it was a big priority to make sure that my child could swim. He had that at four, but it wasn’t until he was on the swim team at six and could swim laps that I felt more comfortable cracking open a book by the side of the pool. Like others, though, I would still be watching 100% of the time if the pool was crowded[/quote]
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