This summer I wanted Luke to learn two things: bike riding and swimming. The bike riding came easy (see previous post). The swimming, not so much. He refuses to pay attention to what anyone else suggests, he refuses to put his head under the water except with his face up to the sky, he won't kick with long legs... So swimming is slow.
The one thing he has finally learned is treading water. He calls it "dreading water," which seems oddly appropriate. He can actually dread water all the way across the shallow end, so it's almost like swimming, but not quite.
I think we'd actually need to get him into lessons in order to teach him to swim. He'd benefit from a teacher who is not his parents. He might also benefit from having some other kids to watch: as I may have posted before, Luke learns things very well by watching others. Where Ella tends to reinvent the wheel (pretty well, all things considered), Luke takes whatever techniques seem useful and makes them his own. Well, we'll see. Maybe next year things will make more sense to him.
The one thing he has finally learned is treading water. He calls it "dreading water," which seems oddly appropriate. He can actually dread water all the way across the shallow end, so it's almost like swimming, but not quite.
I think we'd actually need to get him into lessons in order to teach him to swim. He'd benefit from a teacher who is not his parents. He might also benefit from having some other kids to watch: as I may have posted before, Luke learns things very well by watching others. Where Ella tends to reinvent the wheel (pretty well, all things considered), Luke takes whatever techniques seem useful and makes them his own. Well, we'll see. Maybe next year things will make more sense to him.
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