Each year we come a little closer to conquering Amelia's significant fear of water. Our efforts have been somewhat complicated by her eye surgeries, which have forced her out of the water (much to her delight!) for the past couple of summers. This summer, however, she was neither recovering from nor scheduled for surgery. Time for swimming lessons. Oh my word. You would have thought it a rare form of torture. Even the swimming instructor at the local university said in all her years of teaching, she had never seen a child whose fear of the water seemed as organic as Amelia's. I agree -- she gets in the water, and it's fight or flight time, which is no fun for anyone. She does fine as long as she can sit on the steps or dangle her feet. Anything more is a challenge. She did, however, make it through one lesson without screaming -- see the smile?! In the end it was clear that this wasn't her year to learn to swim. I guess there's always next summer.
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