Liam started swimming lessons today, real honest-to-goodness lessons. Not the kind where the parents get in with the kids and swirl them around a little bit to get them used to the water. Nope, this was the kind where you wave goodbye and send them off to an instructor who looks like she can't be more than 16, and she has six kids, none of whom know how to swim, and you think as you send them off that there is no way that everyone is going to make it out of here alive.
Except that they all did, of course. Though maybe we have to thank two of the kids who were frightened and left in tears before the lesson was over, and a third girl who left to use the bathroom and never came back. At least that brought the student-teacher ratio down a little bit, which could only have helped.
Liam seems to really enjoy lessons, having been successful at both skating and swimming thus far. I think he likes the camaraderie of the other kids and he really gets off on having his parents' undivided attention while he is doing something. Every chance he got, he was looking my way to make sure I was watching.
Liam started swimming lessons today, real honest-to-goodness lessons. Not the kind where the parents get in with the kids and swirl them around a little bit to get them used to the water. Nope, this was the kind where you wave goodbye and send them off to an instructor who looks like she can't be more than 16, and she has six kids, none of whom know how to swim, and you think as you send them off that there is no way that everyone is going to make it out of here alive.
Liam seems to really enjoy lessons, having been successful at both skating and swimming thus far. I think he likes the camaraderie of the other kids and he really gets off on having his parents' undivided attention while he is doing something. Every chance he got, he was looking my way to make sure I was watching.
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