Dear January,
The weather outside has been awesome! We have taken advantage of this beautiful weather. It has definitely helped ease the tensions of my relationships with my children. Potty training Josh is taking it's toll so it's nice that we can go outside and play to let off some stress.
We have started swim lessons for both Abby and Josh. Josh is in soccer as well. He really likes soccer a lot and tries really hard. Swimming is not his favorite.
Today was his first day and he struggled. The swim teacher is really strict and wanted me to leave for parts of it. Which was hard because he was crying. The whole time. I could tell that he was scared and having a hard time.
But the teacher just saw another difficult child. I made excuses, all the ones he was using except the most critical one, that he doesn't know how or cannot breathe through his nose. I got the impression that this would not have mattered to the veteran teacher.
Part of me liked seeing him pushed hard, with a no excuses kind of rigidity. Other parts of me nearly jumped into the pool to save my baby boy from a bad experience. Part of me thinks this is good for him and he will reap the rewards of hard work and other parts of me think that he will be forever scarred and will never enjoy swimming because of a militant teacher.
In the end he said he liked it. I'm not sure he will feel that way next week.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth
The weather outside has been awesome! We have taken advantage of this beautiful weather. It has definitely helped ease the tensions of my relationships with my children. Potty training Josh is taking it's toll so it's nice that we can go outside and play to let off some stress.
We have started swim lessons for both Abby and Josh. Josh is in soccer as well. He really likes soccer a lot and tries really hard. Swimming is not his favorite.
Today was his first day and he struggled. The swim teacher is really strict and wanted me to leave for parts of it. Which was hard because he was crying. The whole time. I could tell that he was scared and having a hard time.
But the teacher just saw another difficult child. I made excuses, all the ones he was using except the most critical one, that he doesn't know how or cannot breathe through his nose. I got the impression that this would not have mattered to the veteran teacher.
Part of me liked seeing him pushed hard, with a no excuses kind of rigidity. Other parts of me nearly jumped into the pool to save my baby boy from a bad experience. Part of me thinks this is good for him and he will reap the rewards of hard work and other parts of me think that he will be forever scarred and will never enjoy swimming because of a militant teacher.
In the end he said he liked it. I'm not sure he will feel that way next week.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth
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