Swim Lessons
The summer we enrolled Melody in swim lessons again. Last year we did “lessons” at our local Y. I wasn’t the biggest fan of the setup there, and I wanted to go a different route. So this year we hired a private instructor for Melody and Lydia!
The instructor is an acquaintance of mine. I noticed she did private lessons on facebook and so I inquired. She would come to my mom’s pool and work with both girls without us having to get in the pool with the girls. She would teach them all that she could based on what they would do. The price was reasonable and we were sold. I didn’t care for how the Y was more of a safety class, and I was basically instructing Melody which doesn’t work well. She does better when someone else is asking her to do things not me.
There was a really slow start with Melody. We had 5 lessons. We did have to get in the pool a few times, but it wasn’t quite like the Y. While both girls were not swimming without some sort of floats, they were both much more improved over the 5 weeks. I was happy with how the lessons went, and hopefully next year they will be ready to learn to swim without floats!
