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[quote=Anonymous]Join summer swim? Ours filled up in the first hour back in April. Surely there's none still with spots?

Our summer swim is super fun. We have the top swimmers and there's still room for bottom swimmers like your son. He likely wouldn't compete (they only need like 4 kids each meet from the age group) but would still get to practice with everyone. They are right that it helps with ability a lot. I do not think anyone would ever notice your kids lack of swimming. I hang by the pool all summer and see roughly zero kids actually swimming with proper form. Mostly it's dog paddling to swim after balls or diving for toys at the bottom.

I think instead of swim lessons you should do something about low muscle tone. We aren't drill sergeants or anything, but our kids run with us, sprints, and also do pushups. We go on long bike rides that help with leg muscles. In middle school we'll allow some weights if they want it. My one child had asked us to help him get better since he wasn't as athletic as his peers in soccer. I wouldn't push any of that on a kid who wasn't interested, but ours were (as a kid I wouldn't want any of that! DH is the athletic one)[/quote]

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