Swimming question
Pretty embarrassing question, but when you were younger did you have swimming lessons to learn to swim or did family teach you?
I went swimming a lot with friends and had a few swimming lessons with school when I was 10, but I can’t actually ‘swim’ like as soon as I’m out of my depth I don’t know how to tread water and I’d definitely drown in the sea/if I was out of my depth.
Obviously having children now I want them to have lessons (they’re 4 and 1) but I definitely couldn’t teach them!
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School taught me but with family we were always in the pool in holiday and I remember my dad trying to teach me how to dive and swim
I had lessons and then I had lessons with the school. I’m glad I knew how to swim before though as some of the kids were quite mean to me as I wasn’t great at things like pe so it shut them up.
It sounds mad but Iearnt how. To swim in school (but not tread water) and I swear I've forgotten. I only know how to float on my back lol
Both, my dad threw us all in and taught us the basics, we had swimming lessons out and at school. I'm not great but I can manage to swim, I just can't keep my breath properly
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