Learning to swim
Isaiah has been taking swimming lessons for about 3 years and still is a beginner. His biggest problems are his fear of getting into deep water and that very cold water bothers him. Isaiah is very, very skinny. He has very little body fat. He shivers like crazy if he gets in a pool that is not heated. This weekend he had a swimming class on Saturday and on Sunday we went to the pool. Neither day went very well. Both times Isaiah could barely do anything because he was so cold.
At end of our afternoon at the pool on Sunday, we discovered a 2nd, heated pool at our community center. Isaiah was very excited. He ran in the water and had a ball. He still did not want to practice going under the water or kicking his legs. "I just want to play!" However, as we left, he agreed that he would work on learning to swim if when we return to the heated pool. The problem with that is that his swimming lessons are not in a heated pool. So we will see how it goes at his next lesson.
Labels: swimming
posted by StaceyMDesign at Sunday, June 22, 2008
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The main problem is Isaiah is so skinny he gets cold quickly once he is in the water. You can see his lips turning purple. However, since he is scared of putting his head in the water he stays cold. I tried getting in the water with him in an effort to relieve his fear of the water. I tried holding him and encouraging him to lay flat in the water to get his boy temperature acclimated to the water. This worked for a minute or so, but he is so scared of the water that he curls up which gets his colder even still.
I think he need to go back to having him practice holding his head under the water in the bathtub at home, getting used to that, then transferring this over to the pool.
We'll see how it goes.
A work in progress....
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