Post by lilafowler on Sept 16, 2014 19:26:49 GMT -5
She's an idiot. And probably jealousE that your girl is a better swimmer than her kid.
Ellie just moved up to a class where she's not in the water with a parent (ahhhh!) but in her last class over the summer I was in the pool with her-there were kids with varying comfort levels. I had the mermaid who kept telling me to let her go and swim underwater!
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What a bitch. L sounds a lot like my nephew, who is 3.5 and doing front crawl, and jumping off the diving board. He is tiny too so people are always yelling "watch out, your son is going in the deep!" to my SIL who is all "he can swim!".
It's awesome that she is so comfortable in the water. Anna refused to put her face in until this summer (age 6.5!) but then once she did, she moved quickly up a couple of levels.
Post by JayhawkGirl on Sept 16, 2014 19:32:22 GMT -5
Swim away!!! Our scuba shop runs swim lessons and submerges the kids at about 18 months. DS is a fish too and I would have been raving to you about how awesome her swimming is!!!
So then judgy mom swims over to the instructor and said "Something something (I was too far away to hear) I'm just realllly uncomfortable. I don't want to show that I'm scared, but dry drowning is a thing!" While glaring at me. And the instructor was giving her that blank stare like "you're a fucking idiot".
L then used that opportunity to climb out of the pool and do a few cannonballs while laughing like a maniac.
Is that judgy? Am I a sucky mom? I am not breezy about food, but this kind of stuff doesn't worry me at all.
This is exactly how I would have looked if the woman brought that to my attention. What a hosebeast! You aren't a sucky mom! You were right there and had your hands on her. That woman just needs a xanax and maybe to not be in the water? I'm not sure, but blowing bubbles in the water is perfectly normal and good developmentally when learning how to swim.
Post by CajunShrimp on Sept 16, 2014 19:50:34 GMT -5
That woman is a beyotch. K started jumping in and going completely underwater when he was about a year. He started taking lessons without me in the pool just after his 2nd birthday. He is 3 now and he likes nothing more than jumping off the diving platform into the deep end. He is not the next Michael Phelps - a lot of kids his age are doing the same thing. His instructors are teaching them to put their face in the water and blow bubbles BECAUSE THAT IS HOW YOU TEACH KIDS TO SWIM.
Just let your daughter KOKO and showing her how it is done.
She's in the swim class that goes from infant-3 years. Once they're three they go into actual proper classes where they have to meet skills to move up a level, but under three a parent has to be in the water with them, and the skills are just to kick their feet, splash with their hands, float on their back and maaaaaybe to put their face in the water. Essentially the "lessons" are just to get them comfortable in the water. There is an instructor.
L is 2.5. She was born comfortable with the water, and we have always taken her swimming, right from when she was an infant. So today she was swimming around (with my hands under her belly helping to keep her afloat) and the other mom stopped me and in the world's judgiest voice said "excuse me? She was just entirely submerged just then." Like, watch your kid. And I said "Yes?" And she said "Well, I just thought you should know." And I laughed and was like "Yeah, there's not much fear in this one" and we just kept swimming on, while she gave me a death stare. Now, it's not like I was holding her under the freaking water. I was holding her while she kicked her feet and put her face in the water to blow bubbles. She can swim the width of the pool without a floatie, holding on to a pool noodle. Girl's got skills.
So then judgy mom swims over to the instructor and said "Something something (I was too far away to hear) I'm just realllly uncomfortable. I don't want to show that I'm scared, but dry drowning is a thing!" While glaring at me. And the instructor was giving her that blank stare like "you're a fucking idiot".
L then used that opportunity to climb out of the pool and do a few cannonballs while laughing like a maniac.
Is that judgy? Am I a sucky mom? I am not breezy about food, but this kind of stuff doesn't worry me at all.
The woman is an asshole, plain and simple. I don't throw the word jealous around much but I think it applies here. YOU WERE HOLDING HER.
Post by sewpinkgal on Sept 16, 2014 20:13:28 GMT -5
That other mom is crazy. She'd have a field day with my kid - his instructor stops with a 1/4 length of the pool left and he swims the rest of the way himself. He's been doing it for a couple of months now.
You keep on doing what you're doing. Seriously. And $20 says your daughter is swimming like a fish without support shortly after she is in non-parent and me classes.