Torture Lessons
It is my opinion that every child should have swimming lessons, so that there would be no reason to have needless deaths in our country from a child drowning just because they don’t know how to swim. Therefore I was excited on a recent trip to Houston to discover that 3 year old Molly was in swim lessons. In the past Molly has enjoyed the water only when she has had some type of mechanism to keep her afloat—a parent's arms, floaties or an inner tube. She tried swimming lessons last year and was traumatized by the method—sink or swim. I happened to be there for her first few lessons and to an outsider just listening they would have thought for sure a case of child abuse was in process. Molly yelled and screamed from the moment she saw the teacher until she realized that we were not going to rescue her. The teacher has an unusual method of teaching the children. There is no preliminary preparation, such as keep you mouth closed, make bubbles by blowing through your nose; i...