Swimming Lessons - My daughter is raising three children. They range in age from seven years to four years old. She and her husband both work full time and have the children in a variety of activities. I was over visiting her at the beginning of the summer and I could not believe the activities that she had outlined on the family calendar. All three children were signed up for swimming lessons. The seven year old was playing baseball the five year old was in T-ball and the four year old was in a dance class. My daughter seemed like she was running around in circles.
As she was showing me the schedule she realized that the five and four year old had swimming lessons at a different location than the seven year old. She had signed them up to be on the same nights. The younger children were scheduled from six thirty to seven and the older child was from seven to seven thirty, two nights each week for five weeks. She thought this would work great until she realized that the younger children had their swimming lessons at the YMCA and the older child had his at a junior high school. The two locations are about two miles apart. She and her husband were both going to have to drive separate cars to cover the swimming lessons.
One day my daughter called in a panic. Her husband was out of town on business and would not make it back in time to take the seven year old to his swimming lessons. She wanted to know if I could help her out by driving him. I thought this would be fun so I told her that I would pick him up at the YMCA where she would be with the other two children, and take him to the junior high school.
Seeing the five and four year olds in the pool made me realize that the swimming instructors have to have a great deal of patience. There were three instructors for six children. One little boy was refusing to listen and was going towards the deep water. I told my daughter that if I had been the instructor I would have let him drown. After that comment I think my daughter worried that I would be taking her son to his swimming lessons. The group of older students was much better behaved. I still would not have wanted to teach the swimming lessons, but at least the older kids seemed to be listening to what was being taught.
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