Originally Posted by ElizabethN
... pretty much no progress on swimming lessons until DD11 decided that she wanted to do it...


Well, there is that. DS7 also refused to put his head under water - until one day he just decided he was going to learn to do this - and spent a whole 30 minute lesson doing only this. On his own. Without anyone encouraging it.

I've no idea why he decided that was the moment, except that maybe he listened to his friend who a month or so earlier had told him putting your head under water was 'easy'. so...

Don't think there was anything we could do to speed up the process - other than keep taking him to the pool...