Aquatic Survival

Some of you know that we are using a chunk of our stimulus check toward ”swim” lessons. Actually we enrolled Pierson into Infant Swimming Resource (ISR) aquatic survival lessons. I’ve been calling them “swim” lessons but when you look at the footage featured on this mornings Today Show it looks nothing like the back stroke. You see kids floating, rolling over in the water, dog paddling underwater with wide eyes and yes some are crying. They cry for all the normal reasons, new people, new environments, lack of control, etc. In time students gain confidence in their abilities and the crying is replaced with “yook mama! I sim, I sim!”. Pierson is in his first week and loving (?) it. He whines, then gets pissed, then laughs, then gets pissed again. All in all it’s totally worth it! He is learning to save his own life if God forbid he falls into a pool. I’m in the process of editing video of his first lesson. More to come…

Posted by linuxgrl May 2008

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