Tadpole

We have been noticing that he gets bored during the weekends playing by himself and there is only so long that his dad - and when I am in the mood for it, I - can entertain him. He gets crabby and whines for the silliest things thus getting on our nerves. So we decided it's time for him to get in to some organised activity as a weekly routine and I enrolled him in a swimming lesson.

It was his first lesson today and just as I had feared he refused to go the lesson and instead wanted to play on the water slide play equipment pool. The place was brimming with kids in various lanes taking lessons and he stood there watching them, still steadfastly refusing to get out of his shorts and step into the water. It was only when his dad offered to go in along with him that he consented, and from there it was a fairly smooth journey, given the agony I put myself through going over all my options if he continued to remain in his shell.

The instructor was very kid-friendly and that put me at ease. It was very basic skills like holding on to a floatie and flapping legs, fetching an object that was lying on the bottom of the shallow pool, and trying to float lying on the back. He was paying attention to the instructor and didn't cringe away when he spoke to him as I fully expected him to. It appears that as long as one of us is in the water with him, at least for the first term, he will enjoy himself. He said he had fun listening to that babu during the swim lesson but that next time he would like to go to the big swimming pool and play on the slide, instead. Have to see what next Sunday brings.