Three years ago, The Daughter was timidly standing on the side of the Pullman pool, building up the courage to jump into the pool for her very first time. Everyone jumped in but her and one little boy. Their feet were frozen solidly in place while the teacher was lovingly talking them through how she would help them through the challenge, when a very helpfully mother (said with much sarcasm) decide to push them in. Yep, she really did. That wonderful experience (NOT!), washed any desire she had to learn to swim or even go to lessons. That is until this summer, when she decided she needed to swim because she's going to be a 1st grader. Needless to say, she has amazed me. Each day she made tremendous gains and now can swim the width of the pool only stopping once or twice and freely jumps in. We are still working on building up more confidence and she hates to swim in the deep end, which to be honest, I'm not to heart broken about. ;) But it to will come. We as parents can push our children all we want but in the end, they'll come around when they're ready. We pushed her to finish that first ever swim session. It was miserable for all involved. After that we decided to leave it up to her. We know that she would someday come around and sure enough with time she did just that. She may not have come around as fast as we would have wanted her to, but it doesn't matter. The only thing that matters, is she decided to do it and we trusted and supported her. Way to go kiddo, we are so proud of you!
And just for fun...Here's a picture from three years ago, prior to being pushed into the pool. Boy, has she grow!
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Way to go!!!
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