My son, who ironically loves to take baths, apparently deals with some kind of water phobia when he is in the swimming pool. It takes him forever just to get adjusted to the temperature of the water. This combined with his motor dyspraxia and hypotonia have made it very difficult for him to learn to swim. I was able to get him in a swimming class but it took him a whole week to get to the point where he could put his face in the water for more than a few seconds and actually try to swim. He was in swimming lessons 4 days a week for two weeks with a woman who uses a backyard pool and he was almost swimming, but he is not quite there yet. The teacher said I needed to get him in a pool again soon or we would be right back where we started. I guess I will have to take him to the YMCA where one of the instructors last year called him a wuss, unless I can figure out how to teach him myself.
