Today I had to carry my screaming child BACK to the pool for swimming lessons. Oh, the embarrassment. Have you had similar experiences with reluctant swimmers? I remember when Jenna was little, I literally peeled her off my body and threw her in the pool. –To the teacher, not just randomly thrown in the pool–. Today it was John’s turn. He started out great, but after 10 minutes, he got up like he needed to use the bathroom, and came to me instead. I don’t EVER WANT to swim, MOM! He kept saying over and over. When I decided that tough love was in order and I took him back to the pool, he was kicking and screaming and biting and pinching. Then he cried in the pool. I could hear him loud and clear crying, “I just want to go and talk to my mom!” <\/p>\n
Oh the joy. <\/p>\n
I apologized to the teachers, but they assured me that they have seen much worse. <\/p>\n
Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today I had to carry my screaming child BACK to the pool for swimming lessons. Oh, the embarrassment. Have you had similar experiences with reluctant swimmers? I remember when Jenna was little, I literally peeled her off my body and threw her in the pool. –To the teacher, not just randomly thrown in the pool–. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2226,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions\/2226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}