[blparent] swimming lessons

[Veronica Smith]

Sheesh, I really don't blame her.  I'm really surprised Gab will.  I think
it is because her friends do and last summer I took her to a swimming party
with the student division of NFB and all the blind kids were jumping off the
diving board.  She watched from the edge of the pool and then finally got up
enough nerve and said she was going to jump off.  She wanted me to do the
same, but I said no thanks. V

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 1:00 PM
To: Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] swimming lessons

My mom won't go near water to this day because some jackwagon did the same
thing to her when she was a little kid.


Jo Elizabeth

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, 
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of 
the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all of 
these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist

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From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 12:44 PM
To: "'Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: [blparent] swimming lessons

> When gab was young, probably about 6, we had her in swimming lessons.  She
> was a bit afraid of the water and didn't want to jump into the deep like 
> the
> other kids, so the instructor went right over to her and threw her in.
> He said, that kids learn better that way.  So for the next 4 years or so,
> she would not go near the deep water.  always wanted to stay where her 
> feet
> could touch the bottom.
> I was so angry and gave him a piece of my mind.  He kept trying to 
> convince
> me that would teach her to be a better swimmer.  It taught her nothing and
> he failed her.
> She is a good swimmer now and will jump off the high dive into deep water,
> but she had to figure that part out on her own, we just kept going to the
> pool and getting a little deeper and now, though cautious at first. V
>
>
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