Swimming Without Armbands!
For todays swimming lesson Ethan’s instructor thought it would be a good idea to ditch the armbands and just use a swimming woggle to try to get Ethan moving!
Ethan has been having swimming lessons once a week in term time since January and he has yet to kick his legs or move across the pool in anyway on his own. Just to put it in some perspective as he is only two years and five months old, other children that started swimming at the same time have moved up to the next group, we are still in this group and will be for some time. But Ethan can float perfectly with his armbands and I’m quite happy to have him at just over arms reach in the pool as I know he is fine. He can also do some pretty amazing spinning in the water and I think he would quite enjoy synchronised swimming!
Our swimming lessons aren’t just about Ethan learning to swim I also want to give myself confidence in the water as I am not a strong swimmer and nearly drowned in a swimming pool when I was little so I have some issues. So the fact that we have got to where we are at the moment in these lessons is something I’m really proud of.
For those of you who don’t know what a swimming woggle is please see the picture below…