Hi, I am Arveno and i am from Surabaya city Indonesia. I want to make content about how i spending my time in this weekend. Not long ago my son have swimming class in his school. I really dont know what he doing when he is on swimming class. And what i know after school he looks excited telling the story that he loves swimming. So, i am curious how much he learn about swimming and how much he grow the courage inside water. At age 3 he afraid going inside water. I dont know he still trauma or just afraid of water since my son never want to try something if too afraid. He is naturally born timid.
After listen my son's story about swimming, i make a plan in this weekend to swimming with him. I think no need to go the real swimming club. Just place that have mini swimming pool since i just want to know about how far my son excited with water. So, i make a plan going to apartement near my house and using the swimming pool facility there.
This place cost 2$ each person. So i paid around 6$ for 3 of us. My wife accompany us but not going to swim since she cannot swimming. At first my son really excited going there. After change the clothes, he starting to asking me to accompany to the slide.
At first my son excited to trying by himself sliding on this slide. But, after he drowning little bit in water he started afraid and dont want to try it again.
So, after he afraid about this pool depth, i dont know since he can standing up and the water cannot make him drown at all but still afraid of drowning. So instead scolding him, i telling him to try in the shallow pool first.
Yeah, i just following him from behind but i still telling him to do it by himself to train his courage. So, i can train two things at the same times. His courage and swimming skills.
Like father like son. I just want to showering in this area. It feels relaxing. And then my son following me copying me. Yeah kid is the best copying mechanism from the parents.
After that i am asking him if he wants to playing on slide again or not. And it turns out that my son afraid being drowned after touching water. So, i asking him want me to accompany him and holding him or not. And he said he want to try. I need to building his self confidence so yeah i am holding him in my lap and sliding down and lift him when water touching so his head not going into water. After the fun of course i teaching him to holding his breath and dive his head. He need to learn not to panic inside water first.
After he is starting to be brave inside water, now i am teaching him how to floating on water. As far as i know floating in water is just need to be relaxing the muscles and hold more air in lungs. It will make the muscle relax and the air inside our body will make our body float. Just it. But, if starting to afraid and panic can make us drowning. Thats why i am teaching him not to panic and still calm inside water. It is really hard to teaching not afraid diving the head inside water. But, i think this is good progress for my son. Little by little he will be brave and i think he can learn swimming in next year or 2 years from now. Maybe i need to allocating my money to going swimming club once or twice in a week. it will make my son can learn swimming fast.
So, this is my weekend activity with my son. Hope you enjoy it.
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