Summer time means swim lessons

This summer is the summer that my children will finally learn how to swim. I am determined to do it. Both of them are finally comfortable in the water, but there is a huge brick wall in their heads that says, we can't swim. i have seen them swim from one side of the pool to the other in shallow water where they can touch the bottom if necessary. I have seen them body surf in the waves on a Hawaiian beach with no fear of anything because they can touch the sandy bottom. But as soon as the water is too deep to touch bottom, panic, fear, petrified children start to cry they cannot swim.

We went to a pool yesterday and they jumped on the side with cannonballs seeing who could make the bigger splash and had contests to see who could float the furthest across the pool. Andrew beat Delaney in a hand stand contest and they scoured the bottom time after time to get the diving torpedo from the bottom of the pool. But there was no deep end, no diving board, no chance.

I tell you, this summer is the time...