Today's lesson was
much better!
I told him that they are teaching him water safety when he told me the water wasn't safe. I could see him turning that one around in his head! LOL Then I said that if he's scared, he needs to use his words (remember that?)to tell the teacher,
not screaming, because they don't understand why he's screaming.
He didn't scream hardly at all and I did hear him proclaiming loudly a few times he was scared.
When he got out of the water to go home, I told him he was brave. He said he wasn't because he was crying. He seemed to understand me when I told him being brave means doing something you need to do
even if you're scared.
The swimming chart I made so he could cross off each lesson is working him toward the goal of the surprise at the end of the eighth lesson, so I think that's helped too.
I'm optimistic that he will get better and better each time.
If he had been worse today, that would have been the last lesson for him for a while.
