re: Mother receiving death threats over teaching baby to swim John Wayne style

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I personally wouldn’t do it , but this lady is trained in this so who gives a frick.

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You know what’s worse besides the obvious of not learning how to swim? Letting a kid sit there all day overthinking it instead of just jumping in.


Never forget as a kid with my older cousins psyching myself out over a rope swing into a pond. You had to climb this pyramid of saw horses and plywood some kids had constructed and grab onto the rope, and it would literally carry you out to almost the middle of the pond. For a little kid it was intimidating as hell, and all I can remember is my cousins razzing me, basically calling me a pussy if I didn’t do it. Well, I was no pussy and so after enough of that I just did it, and after that, you couldn’t keep me off the damn thing.

Now, I did get swimmers ear from the water, but that’s besides the point. I wouldn’t trade those memories for the world. We had such a blast that day, and to be honest, I wish they would have made me sooner as I wasted a lot of valuable time overthinking that shite.

I’d imagine it’s kind of similar to this technique in learning to swim. It’s better for someone to throw you in and get it over with. Same for a the high diving board, or anything out of our comfort zone.