Our daughter has offered to teach her little brother to swim. Let her, or keep paying the coach?
She swims well and has offered to teach her brother in the apartment pool, three evenings a week. Her conditions are that he listens to her and that we don't stand at the edge adding instructions. The alternative is the coach who runs batches at the same pool. He is good, but there are twelve children in the batch and my son spends most of the hour waiting on the steps. With his sister he would get the whole hour to himself. I'm less worried about safety, since there is a lifeguard, than about what happens between the two of them when he refuses to put his face in the water for the fourth day running. They get along well at the moment and I would like to keep it that way. She starts class 10 this June, which is another reason I'm hesitating.